Workshops Descriptors
This page provides the learning outcomes and the intended audience for all SLD workshops & webinars.
Assessment Workshops
Title | Description | Audience |
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Dissertation/Final Year Projects – Getting started | This workshop will provide tips and resources to help you plan and get started on your dissertation or project - which will be a much larger, independent piece of work than other assignments.
Workshop Objectives:
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UG/PG |
Essays in exams | This workshop will provide tips on taking essay-type exams to improve performance.
Workshop Objectives:
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UG/PG |
Exam preparation and revision | This workshop will cover ways to plan revision study time and active revision strategies.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Exam taking skills | This workshop will provide strategies for doing well in your exams.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Group Work | This workshop will provide tips for effective group working to complete a task in a timely manner.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Open book exams | This workshop will explain open-book exams and discuss strategies for revision and implementation.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Presentations Skills | This workshop will introduce the steps in creating an effective presentation. It will provide tips and resources to help deliver good presentations.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Presentation skills for research | This workshop will introduce the steps in creating an effective presentation. It will provide tips and resources to help deliver good presentations.
Workshop Objectives:
| PG |
Viva & Oral Defence Preparation | This workshop will look at the viva and confirmation interview process and provide tips and strategies on how to prepare and defend.
Workshop Objectives:
| PG |
Academic Writing Workshops
Title | Description | Audience |
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Developing critical writing skills | This workshop will introduce you to ways to make your writing more critical and considers the importance of argument in your writing.
Workshop Objectives:
| PG |
Essay Writing | This workshop looks at writing as a process and the various steps involved in writing an essay: planning, structuring and drafting.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Introduction to Academic Writing | This workshop will introduce you to key features and characteristics of academic writing.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Introduction to Literature Reviews | This workshop will introduce you to the basics of producing a literature review.
Workshop Objectives:
| PG |
Reflective Writing | This workshop will introduce reflection and provide tips on reflective writing for assignments.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Science writing (incl. reports) | This workshop will cover the attributes of good scientific writing and look at science-specific writing tasks.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Thesis Writing Process | This workshop will look at the thesis writing process and provides tips and strategies for getting started and improving your writing.
Workshop Objectives:
| PG |
Self Management Workshops
Title | Description | Audience |
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Concentration and Procrastination | This workshop will provide some tips to help you to improve your focus and overcome procrastination.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Managing Stress | This workshop will provide an overview of stress
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Organisation & Time Management | This workshop will provide some tips to help you manage yourself, your time and your workload.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Effective Study Workshops
Title | Description | Audience |
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Effective study for Academic Success | This workshop will introduce you to evidence-based study strategies that help you remember and understand material.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Learning to Learn Online | This workshop will look at some of the challenges of remote, online learning and point you to further resources. It will include a Q&A session.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |
Participating Online | This workshop will introduce you to ways to collaborate online and stay connected.
Workshop Objectives:
| UG/PG |