Welcome

Forthcoming skills sessions

• May

  18
  Core Skills in Academic Writing and Referencing
  MS Teams - 14:00
  In this 90-minute session, participants will explore the principles of academic writing, learn how to evaluate and use evidence effectively, develop strategies for planning and structuring essays, and write in a clear formal academic style. The session will also address common challenges in academic writing and provide practical guidance on citing sources, referencing in Harvard style, and avoiding plagiarism.
  
• May

  20
  Health Literacy Awareness
  MS Teams - 11:00
  This one hour Health Literacy Awareness seminar will give you a useful introduction to the concept of health literacy and an understanding of how poor health literacy can impact the lives of patients.
  
• Jun

  03
  Systematically Structured Evidence Searching (Advanced)
  MS Teams - 09:30
  This session will help you to understand the principles of designing a systematically structured evidence/literature search and the databases available to you via your NHS OpenAthens. It will help you conduct your own evidence/literature search and show how a PRISMA flowchart succinctly records the de-duplication, screening and exclusion processes applied as you purposely reduce the number of records returned by your search.
  
• Jun

  09
  Health Literacy Awareness
  In person - Ground Floor Meeting room 1 & 2 - 14:00
  This one hour Health Literacy Awareness seminar will give you a useful introduction to the concept of health literacy and an understanding of how poor health literacy can impact the lives of patients.
  
• Jun

  16
  How to Create a Conference Poster
  MS Teams - 11:00
  This session will support you through the two key components of conference poster creation: 1. the hands-on technical knowledge required to create a conference poster, and 2. the need to reflect on how best to communicate its relevance, impact and key point(s).
  
• Jun

  18
  Reflective Writing
  MS Teams - 14:00
  This workshop is particularly aimed at those who need to produce reflections for revalidation (e.g. nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, etc.), but anyone is welcome, including those who need to write reflections as part of an academic course or those who are interested in how reflective practice can enable them to be a better practitioner! In this workshop, we will look at the basic principles of reflective writing and why it is useful, how to write reflectively, what the requirements are for reflections in revalidation for various roles, and how the Library can support you in your revalidation.