Workshops
We offer a wide range of academic skills workshops delivered online and in-person on campus.
Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
This is a great place to start if you want to:
- Improve your study and research skills
- Develop your IT and digital skills
- Focus on your maths and numeracy.
Workshops are added regularly, so keep checking back to see what's new!
Workshop topics
Study and Research
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Academic writing for assessments e.g. critical and reflective writing, assessment structure, paraphrasing, referencing
- Digital note-making
- Endnote
- Finding information e.g. Library Search, finding journal articles and using databases
- Motivation and procrastination
- Preparing for exams
- Presentation skills
- Reading lists
- Resilience
IT and Digital
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creating academic posters
- Creating narrated presentation videos
- Formatting your dissertation
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exams
Maths and Numeracy
- Numerical reasoning tests
- Medicine management numeracy skills
Library Welcome
- Library Welcome webinar
- IT essentials at Salford
Coming up...
Develop your confidence in speaking [ONLINE]
Starts: 23 Jul 2025, 1:00 pmFinishes: 23 Jul 2025, 2:00 pmRemaining places: 6In this workshop we will explore what is stopping us from speaking up and understand the benefits of speaking to others. We will practise speaking in a safe space and share strategies to boost our confidence. This workshop is useful for any undergraduate and postgraduate level student wanting to develop their confidence in speaking in different situations.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 29 Jul 2025, 2:00 pmFinishes: 29 Jul 2025, 3:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 11This one-hour EXAM SESSION for MOS certification takes place ON CAMPUS. At the time of booking, you must have scored over 70% in GMetrix's 'Testing' mode for your chosen application. Bookings not meeting this criterion will be cancelled.Refresh your referencing skills [Online]
Starts: 4 Aug 2025, 12:00 pmFinishes: 4 Aug 2025, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 40This workshop will cover common referencing errors and how to avoid them in our work. This workshop includes a Q&A section where you can ask specific referencing questions.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 8 Aug 2025, 10:00 amFinishes: 8 Aug 2025, 11:00 amVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 11This one-hour EXAM SESSION for MOS certification takes place ON CAMPUS. At the time of booking, you must have scored over 70% in GMetrix's 'Testing' mode for your chosen application. Bookings not meeting this criterion will be cancelled.