Personal Development

This MySkills resource shows you ways to develop skills to balance your responsibilities, staying focused, and meeting deadlines. It includes finding and pursuing goals and having an openness to learning. Mastering these skills enables continuous growth both personally and professionally. The three managing yourself skills covered are:

1. Time Management & Organisation:
   • Prioritisation
   • Organising Meetings
   • Productivity Tools
2. Self-motivation
   • Self-motivation and academic success
   • Are you a ‘multipotentialite’?
   • How to motivate yourself
3. Resilience
   • Thinking about resilience
   • Resilience mini course - Developing Resilience - Overview | Rise 360
   • Self-compassion
   • Living in the moment

Visit the MySkills area in MyAberdeen and start your journey now.

• PGR MySkills area
• PGT MySkills area
• UG MySkills area

Free 2 hour workshops for undergraduates and postgraduates run throughout term-time on a variety of topics. These include:

• Using study time well
• Reading well
• Time management
• Presentation skills
• Exam revision

These sessions can be booked through the course booking system when they are available.

Drop-ins - these are on campus, no booking required! Not a workshop but an opportunity for a quick chat about any aspect of study. Weekly drop-in sessions take place on Wednesdays in room 506 on level 5 of Sir Duncan Rice Library from 11:00 to 13:00.

Throughout the semester the Student Learning Service run a series of workshops, open to all students, on a variety of topics, these include: note-taking, reading, time management, presentation skills, revision and exams and more.

Contact the Student Learning Service if you are interested: sls@abdn.ac.uk

We are offering two types of session in the Library to allow time for both quiet writing and opportunities for collaboration.

Turn Up and Write!

Struggling to find the motivation to get your writing done? Join us at one of our structured writing sessions to help you beat procrastination. Monthly Tuesday morning sessions are held in the Sir Duncan Rice Library between 10-12.  Book your place on the course booking system . We will provide the room, tea, coffee and moral support.

We use the Pomodoro Technique (25 minutes silent writing with 5-minute breaks) to make sessions as productive as possible.

Collab or Write

To support collaboration, interdisciplinary working and a positive research culture the University is running a series of sessions to provide both quiet times for writing and times for collaboration and conversation around research over the course of this year.

Hosted jointly between Research and Innovation and the Library, they are open to anyone who would benefit from dedicated time and space to advance their research. Every month there will be a session for collaborating and a session for writing. Collaboration sessions will be half-day sessions devoted to time for discussion and collaboration. These will be an opportunity to come along with existing collaborators, to arrange to meet new collaborators, or simply turn up and look for potential collaborators. Writing sessions will be full days devoted to quiet time for any form of academic writing, offering a neutral space to work quietly alongside others.

The sessions take place on different days and times to allow for variations in schedule - sessions are on coursebooking if you like to get it in your calendar but booking not necessary. Tea and coffee will be provided.