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...
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: 10This 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.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (Online)
Starts: 14 Aug 2025, 5:00 pmFinishes: 14 Aug 2025, 6:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 14This is a one-hour online EXAM SESSION for MOS certification. 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.