Training
Course-embedded Teaching
Information Consultants deliver lectures and workshops on library resources, specialist subject databases, search techniques and referencing to support teaching across all disciplines.
Open Sessions
Alongside course‑based teaching, Information Consultants offer practical sessions open to all students to help you find information for assignments, projects and dissertations.
Contact the Information Consultant for your subject area
Discover Our Open Sessions
Learn how to use important resources such as Ebook Central, Scopus and Web of Science, search Primo better, use RefWorks to create in-text citations and references and Google better. Our workshops help you develop appropriate information skills for your level of study.
Short sessions for UG and PGT students (start of 1st and 2nd semester)
- Library discovery tool Primo
- What are academic sources?
- Principles of referencing
- RefWorks
PGT Refresher Series (May)
The Library and Student Learning Service offer a series of workshops and seminars designed to help you with your dissertation and project research. Topics include:
- Library resources and academic integrity
- Primo features to support your dissertation research
- Go further with your dissertation research: academic databases
- Manage your references with RefWorks
- Approaching and managing your dissertation
- Presenting your dissertation/project research orally
- Microsoft Word for theses and long documents
Library support for postgraduate researchers
Teaching Materials and Resources
Below you’ll find recordings and presentations from our information skills sessions.