Academic, Research and Digital Skills
- Explore the topics below and click on an event title to book your place through Advantage.
- New workshops are released at the beginning of each trimester.
Workshop Schedule
If there are no workshops currently scheduled, explore our on-demand webinars and eLearning resources to access support at a time that suits you. If you require more specialist support, please contact the Learning and Skills Team by emailing askus@salford.ac.uk.
- Starts: 23 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 23 Sep 2026, 4:00 pmThis workshop covers critical and analytical skills useful for academic work.
- Starts: 5 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 5 Oct 2026, 3:00 pmThis workshop covers why and how to paraphrase more effectively.
- Starts: 7 Oct 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 7 Oct 2026, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 28This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.
- Starts: 8 Oct 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 8 Oct 2026, 5:00 pmRemaining places: 49Our online learning allows you to choose what to study, when and where you learn. You set the pace. Find out how to use LinkedIn Learning’s online learning courses to build and improve your Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills. You'll be surprised to find out what you didn't know!
- Starts: 13 Oct 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 13 Oct 2026, 1:30 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, TBCRemaining places: 46-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.
- Starts: 14 Oct 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 14 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 24In 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.
- Starts: 14 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 14 Oct 2026, 3:30 pmRemaining places: 06-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.
- Starts: 15 Oct 2026, 11:00 amFinishes: 15 Oct 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 06-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.
- Starts: 26 Oct 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 26 Oct 2026, 5:30 pmRemaining places: 81In this workshop you will develop your literature review skills. We will explore the aims behind a literature review, how to carry out your search, how to critically assess your sources and how to structure your review.
- Starts: 28 Oct 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 28 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmRemaining places: 29This workshop will run through the principles and practice of paraphrasing, helping you to condense and cite the ideas of others more clearly.
- Starts: 13 Nov 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 13 Nov 2026, 3:00 pmThis workshop explores what journal articles and databases are and why they are useful.
- Starts: 17 Nov 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 17 Nov 2026, 2:15 pmThis 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.
- Starts: 10 Dec 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 10 Dec 2026, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 47This one-hour webinar will show you how to develop your digital and creative skills by using PowerPoint to create a narrated video presentation. This event is online.
- Starts: 11 Dec 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 11 Dec 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 95In this workshop we will learn how to use EndNote to save and manage information sources, and automatically create citations and references.