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The Student Learning Service and the Library are offering a series of workshops and sessions for Taught Postgraduate students, designed to support you in your project or dissertation research. 

Information Skills sessions include:

October 6^th-12^th is Dyslexia Awareness Week. 1 in 10 people in the UK have this condition, which can affect reading, writing and spelling. The theme around this year is ‘Raising the Volume’, which aims to champion the voices of young people, focus on their successes and raise awareness of the…

To support postgraduate taught students with their dissertations, the Library and the Student Learning Service are offering re-runs of popular refresher sessions.

The Library's Digital Skills Team is running an online session for PGTs on getting the most from Microsoft Word for your dissertation. It's on Thursday 17 July from…

The Student Learning Service and the Library are offering a series of workshops and sessions for Taught Postgraduate students, designed to support you in your project or dissertation research. 

The Student Learning Service offers drop-in sessions and study advice to all students.

Study Skills and Academic Writing drop-in sessions: starting on 16 October, every Wednesday 11:00-13:00, Floor 5 room 506, The Sir Duncan Rice Library. No booking needed!

Staff in the Student Learning Service also offer workshops on essay…

Encircling the Atrium of the Ground Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, we now have an exciting display of umbrellas representing and highlighting neurodiversity at the University of Aberdeen.

The Umbrella Project is an initiative run by the ADHD Foundation to raise awareness of and celebrate all neurodivergent conditions. You…

The Student Learning Service offers workshops, drop-in sessions and study advice to all students.

The Sir Duncan Rice Library drop-in sessions: (Floor 5, room 506)

Ask any questions you may have. No booking needed!

For online drop-in sessions and workshops, use…

New! Open Access Requirements for UKRI Funded Longform Publications

 From 1st January 2024 the UKRI open access policy will apply to long-form publications. Monographs, edited collections, and book chapters published from 1st January 2024 are required to be open access under a Creative Commons licence no later than 12 months…

Is this the beginning of the end for the era of excessive profiteering by publishers?

2023 has been a year of unrest at many commercial journals run by major publishers. Does this signal the start of a pushback against high publishing charges and are some of the alternative (non-profit)…

All this week, the University is hosting a series of brilliant fairs and events promoting and highlighting the inspiring ways that you can maintain and sustain positive mental and physical health. If you fancy entering the competition, taking up a new hobby, or want to find out more about the…