Events
Events and training
Discover our events, drop-ins and training sessions designed to support you with your studies, teaching and research.
Check back regularly as more sessions are added all the time.
You can also request a one-to-one with the Learning Development team and browse sessions for researchers.
- Date
- 26/01/2026 (10:00-12:00)
- Location:
- George Green Library A13 - University Park
- Description
- This session is suitable for postgraduate research students and research staff undertaking a systematic or scoping review. This session introduces strategies for identifying and retrieving evidence from the published literature, emphasising methods that are comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible. Booking is required.
- Date
- 26/01/2026 (12:30-13:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- Looking for information on medicine, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, healthcare, psychology, mental health, veterinary medicine? Discover some of the key databases from our Medicine and Health Sciences collection, and how to search them effectively to find relevant information. This webinar is suitable for all students studying Medicine and Health Sciences subjects.
- Date
- 26/01/2026 (14:00-16:00)
- Location:
- Jubilee Campus
- Description
- You'll be guided through setting up your own EndNote Desktop library and will discover how to use EndNote's key features to help you import, manage, organise and edit the references you find through your literature searches for your research.
- Date
- 27/01/2026 (10:00-11:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- Doing a systematic review for a project or dissertation? Expand your knowledge of the literature searching process in this webinar. This webinar is suitable for undergraduate and masters students doing systematic reviews for projects or dissertations.
- Date
- 27/01/2026 (12:30-13:30)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- We spend so much time reading at university, but we hardly ever talk about it! In this session, we offer strategies for developing a critical mindset when reading, and different ways to read with purpose.
- Date
- 27/01/2026 (14:00-15:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- Want to find out more about using EndNote to keep track of references you find through your literature searches? This webinar is suitable for all students.
- Date
- 28/01/2026 (12:30-13:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- This webinar will focus on the key features of LibKey Nomad, and how you can use this browser extension to easily access articles, downloadable PDFs and online issues of journals.
- Date
- 28/01/2026 (14:00-15:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- Discover how the information skills developed during your degree programme can be used in the workplace. This webinar is suitable for all students on placements, and final year students who will be transitioning into employment following graduation.
- Date
- 29/01/2026 (10:00-11:00)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- Develop your literature searching skills and explore your subject databases to find information for projects and dissertations. This webinar is suitable for undergraduates (year two onwards) and masters students studying Social Science subjects.
- Date
- 29/01/2026 (12:30-13:30)
- Location:
- Microsoft Teams
- Description
- In this session, we explore how to break down assignment questions, structure an argument, and develop a written paragraph for university-level writing. This is a great starter webinar for those new to university writing, with part 2 (for more advanced writing) later in your course.