Below you can access a variety of workshops that support you personal and professional development, including writing and study skills as well as improving resilience, time management and motivation.
These are offered by the Student Learning Service, Open Research and MySkills.
- Managing Yourself: MySkills Modules
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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:
- Time Management & Organisation:
- Prioritisation
- Organising Meetings
- Productivity Tools
- Self-motivation
- Self-motivation and academic success
- Are you a ‘multipotentialite’?
- How to motivate yourself
- 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.
- Time Management & Organisation:
- Approaches to Study Workshop
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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.
- Neurodivergent Students Workshop
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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