Events Calendar

This interactive and collaborative workshop will introduce you to the concept and practice of academic writing. We will consider some of the underlying principles of good academic writing, and also cover the main stylistic conventions to achieve a clear and formal writing style. Please note that this is an introductory session to academic writing. Other workshops are available for more detailed guidance on specific parts of the academic writing process.

A brief introduction to the idea of critical thinking - what it is, why you need to do it and how to go about it. This session will introduce you to the main concepts and suggest resources to help you improve your skills. There will be time to practice what you have learnt via some short activities within the session.

This interactive and collaborate workshop will help you to better manage and organise your research. Whether working on a small assignment or a PhD thesis, we will consider how to ‘curate’ your research – either primary or secondary – and how to actively engage with information in a way that aligns with your assignment. In doing so, we can see how the practice of managing and organising your research provides a gateway to better planning and greater criticality.

Learn about best practice when formatting a long and structured document such as a dissertation. This is the first of three sessions on using Word for PC to create your dissertation. This hands-on workshop allows you to get the very best out of Word functionality. By the end of the session you will have an understanding of what Styles are and why they are key to using Word; how to apply and modify key Styles; make use of the additional benefits of Styles - Navigation Pane, Table of Contents, Cross-reference and accessibility features.

Move away from Google and identify relevant scholarly resources such as journal articles, books, conference proceedings and reports using subject databases and other reliable sources. You will learn about evaluating web pages, the basics of referencing, and how to access resources from our collections and beyond.

Designed for students with an SpLD, this workshop will provide you with some top tips to help you to develop skills  to effectively plan an assignment. During the workshop you will be introduced to a range of strategies to help you structure the key sections within an essay. For more information on Enabling Services and the support we provide, please follow this link;  https://www.southampton.ac.uk/edusupport/index.page

For PGR students from Business, Education, Computer Science, Environmental Sciences who are doing a Systematic Review

This practical course will show you some important tools and techniques to help you create a search strategy suitable for use in a Systematised Literature Review, sometimes also referred to as a Systematic Review. The session will focus on key databases hosted on different platforms such as Proquest, EBSCO and Web of Science.

In academic writing it is essential that you acknowledge the sources of your informationa and ideas, both in your text through in-text citations and in a bibliography or reference list at the end of your work. This session covers the basics of referencing; what it is, why you should do it and which style you should be using. Examples given use a variety of styles including the Harvard style. There will be time for questions and to practice what you have learnt via some short activities within the session.

This interactive and collaborative workshop will help you to develop your understanding and application of critical analysis when writing an academic assignment. We will work towards a clearer definition of critical analysis and establish a transferable model to help guide and shape your writing in a critical fashion. We will also look at examples of academic writing to see how critical analysis can be applied in effective ways..

For all PGR students

An introduction to open access publication and how to make your work available in this way, including what the benefits are to you as a researcher, what open access policies  you may be required to follow and what funds are available to support open access publication. By the end of the session:
• You’ll be able to confidently describe open access,
• You’ll be aware of the benefits of publishing open access,
• You’ll know how to make your work open access,
• You will have been introduced to Pure (our research management system),
• You'll know how to find open access journal articles
• You’ll need to know where to ask for help.

This interactive and collaborate workshop will help you to better manage and organise your research. Whether working on a small assignment or a PhD thesis, we will consider how to ‘curate’ your research – either primary or secondary – and how to actively engage with information in a way that aligns with your assignment. In doing so, we can see how the practice of managing and organising your research provides a gateway to better planning and greater criticality.

For  PGR students from Medicine, Health Sciences and Psychology

This practical course will show you some important tools and techniques to help you create a search strategy suitable for use in a Systematic Review. The session will focus on health related databases hosted on EBSCO, OVID and Web of Science platforms.

For all PGR students

This session won’t tell you how to write your thesis but it will cover the practical things of preparing a thesis for deposit in our Institutional Repository. Preparation is the key and it is never too soon to start clearing third party copyright materials, using the thesis templates, organising references, research notes or research data

Learn about best practice in Word (for PC) when including data or graphical evidence. Such objects should be clearly labelled, referenced and made accessibility compliant. This is the second of three hands-on sessions using Word for PC to create your dissertation. This session is all about ensuring that you can: convert text to tables; repeat your table's header row; sort data inside a table; use referencing tools such as captions, cross-references and tables of figures; add accessibility features.

This session will introduce you to the University Library's new search system. This one-search interface works across all our Library online and print content. Using a single search box you eil lbe able to find books and ebooks, articles, theses, conference papers, multimedia and more. During the session there will be a chance to ask questions and practice what you have learnt via some short activities with library staff on hand to help.

This session explains the differences between editing and proofreading. It will focus on giving practical tips for proofreading your written work to pick up errors in spelling, formatting, punctuation etc