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Dissertation Success Series: Tips and tricks for improving your digital wellbeing and digital productivity

Date: 24/02/2025  12:00 - 13:00  Live Register

Dissertations can be tough. Join Alison and Luke from the Digital Learning Team, to learn tips and tricks that focus on enhancing your digital productivity and protecting your digital well-being. We want you to enjoy your dissertation project, come along and find out how.

Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot in this workshop. As spaces are limited, please only book if you can attend.

Location: B85/R2209 and 2211 (Highfield Campus)

 

Dissertation Success Series: Using the English for Academic Purposes Toolkit to aid your dissertation writing

Date: 25/02/2025  10:00 - 10:45  Live Register

Are you working on your dissertation and looking for online resources to help you with your dissertation writing? This online session will introduce you to the newly-upgraded EAP Toolkit and the resources within it that you can benefit from at your own pace.

What to expect:

  • An introduction to accessing and using the Dissertation Toolkit
  • Guidance on resources for dissertation writing 
  • A short demonstration showing how to take advantage of the resources 
  • A 15-minute Q&A

The EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Toolkit is a set of online learning resources which are open and useful for all students.

Location: Microsoft Teams (Online)

 

Dissertation Success Series: Critical Thinking - what it is and why it matters

Date: 25/02/2025 11:00 - 12:30  Live Register

Are you working on your dissertation and looking for support with critical thinking? This in-person workshop is designed to introduce you to these skills, explore what critical thinking is, why you need it and how to put it into practice. 

What to expect:

  • Explore the main concepts of critical thinking
  • Recommend techniques and resources to help improve your skills
  • Opportunities to practice what you have learnt with short activities
  • Share critical thinking tips with other students

Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot in this workshop. As spaces are limited, please only book if you can attend.

Location: Building 85/Room 2209

 

Dissertation Success Series: Library Collections & Digital Scholarship pop-up in Hartley Library

Date: 26/02/2025  10:30 - 13:30  Live  

Come along to Hartley Foyer to discover the surprising range of collections at the university. The Library Connecting Collections and Digital Scholarship teams will be showcasing items from several specialist collections that you are welcome to handle and interact with. It’s not just books in the library; collections such as the artists’ books, the Knitting Reference Library, and zines, digital models, 3D prints, artworks, and much more!  Chat with us and learn how you can use these collections in your research.

Location: Hartley Library Foyer

No registration needed!

 

Dissertation Success Series: Show up for your dissertation

Date: 26/02/2025  12:00 - 15:00  Live Register

Join us in a group study space, designed to help you make progress on your dissertation. Whether you prefer a quiet workspace, or need some guidance, we’ve got you covered!  

What to Expect: 

  • Options to Get Started: Choose from dissertation resources to kickstart your session, for example a selection of productivity tools. 

  • Quiet Workspace: Enjoy a peaceful study space where you can focus and progress.  

  • Help and Support: Practitioners are available to offer guidance and support. 

You can stay for as a long as you find the space useful - you don't have to stay the whole time. You could pop in until 12 - 1, or 1:30 - 2:30 for example. 

Location: Hartley Library / Room 2067 

 

Dissertation Success Series: DIY Dissertation Decks

Date: 26/02/2025  15:30 - 17:00  Live Register

Is procrastination becoming a problem as you write your dissertation? Do you feel ‘blocked’ due to writing anxiety or perfectionism?

In this hands-on session, we will explore writing exercises, goal-setting strategies, and motivational techniques to help you stay on track. You will leave the session having created your own custom deck of ‘dissertation fortune cards’ to continue using over the next couple months.

This session will be led by a writing specialist from the Academic Skills team. Please come prepared to chat in a small-group setting and do some relaxing colouring/crafting (materials will be provided).

Location: Building Hartley Library / Room 2067

 

Dissertation Success Series: Finding Information For Your Dissertation

Date: 27/02/2025  10:00 - 11:00  Live Register

Are you working on your dissertation and looking for support? This online session is designed to help you find academic resources and create a search strategy.

What to expect:

  • Where to find academic information
  • Types of resources
  • The importance of planning research and the Library's Dissertation Planner
  • Search strategies and search terms
  • Using database filters and advanced search
  • Using speech-marks, truncation and Boolean operators Citation searching
  • Ways of keeping up-to-date with new research
  • The importance of evaluating information
  • Support from the Library

Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot in this workshop. As spaces are limited, please only book if you can attend.

Location: Online, MS Teams

 

Dissertation Success Series: Collage Your Dissertation

Date: 27/02/2025  11:00 - 12:30  Live Register

Get a fresh perspective on your dissertation and banish your writing blues! Using this well-known art technique in order to approach your dissertation in a creative way, problem solving or celebrating success. All welcome.

All materials will be provided.

Location: Building Hartley Library / Room 2067

 

Dissertation Success Series: Top tips for using English language in your dissertation

Date: 27/02/2025  11:00 - 11:45  Live Register

Join the Academic Centre for International Students for this session for top tips for using English language in your dissertation. 

The Academic Centre for International Students specialise in helping international students in particular.

If your first language is not English you may have questions about the dissertation writing process that native English speakers already feel confident with OR you may be a native speaker who just feels they would like to have some extra time with someone who can answer questions related to language use in dissertations.

If this sounds like you – we can help!

Location: Microsoft Teams (Online)

 

Dissertation Success Series: Formatting Your Dissertation Like a Microsoft Office Specialist 

Date: 28/02/2025  11:00 - 12:30  Live Register

Do you need support with formatting your dissertation? Are you bored of inserting an image to that moves your text? Not sure how to build an automatic table of contents?
Come along to Format your dissertation like a Microsoft Office Specialist. This in-person workshop will show you how to structure sections of your dissertation, insert media without breaking your content structure, add a contents page with auto-numbering headings and page numbers and include non-standard text characters and equations.
There will also be time for an Ask Me Anything, where you can ask me questions about your dissertation structure!

Location: Building 100 / Room 7013

 

Dissertation Success Series: A Gentle Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Dissertations 

Date: 28/02/2025  14:00 - 15:00  Live Register

Are you working on your dissertation or third year project and looking for statistics support? This in-person session is here to provide you with an introduction to the different kinds of statistics you may be using, as well as designing hypotheses to test. If you’re new to statistics and quantitative analysis, this workshop is for you!

What to expect:

  • Exploring the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Understanding different hypothesis tests
  • Tackling commonly asked questions about statistics in dissertations

Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot! As spaces are limited, please only book if you can attend.

There are two Quantiative Analysis Workshops available. You can sign up to one or both of the workshops, depending on what you would find helpful.

Location: 44/1057

 

Dissertation Success Series: A More In-Depth Approach to Quantitative Analysis in Dissertations

Date: 28/02/2025  15:00 - 16:00  Live Register

Are you working on your dissertation or third-year project and looking for statistics support? This in-person session provides detail on hypotheses testing and how to interpret your results to provide real-life conclusions.

What to expect:

  • Understanding the process of preparing data for analysis
  • Details on different hypothesis tests
  • Interpreting outputs from SPSS
  • Exploring the purpose and significance of your dissertation and what you get form it

Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot! As spaces are limited, please only book if you can attend.

There are two Quantitative Anaylsis workshops available. You can sign up to one or both of the workshops, depending on what you would find helpful.

Location: Building 44 / Room 1057

 

Writing Abstracts

Duration: 20 mins  Recorded Start Training

This video covers the essentials of writing an abstract: understanding their purpose in the researching process, their structure and constraints, and how they vary in style and by discipline.

 

Writing the Dissertation: Dissertation Q&A

Duration: 90 mins  Recorded Start Training

This video answers those burning questions about the dissertation, such as how to structure an introduction, how many references should be included in the literature review and the difference between the results and discussion.

 

Writing the Dissertation: the Introduction and Conclusion

Duration: 60 mins  Recorded Start Training

This webinar covers the essentials of writing the introduction and conclusion of a dissertation, or extended piece of writing: how to structure both chapters, or sections, what to include, and not include, and the symbiotic relationship between the two. This is a recording of a live webinar.

 

Writing the Dissertation: the Literature Review

Duration: 60 mins  Recorded Start Training

This webinar covers the essentials of writing a literature review chapter, or section, for a dissertation, or extended piece of writing: the conventions of a literature review, structural approaches and synthesis and techniques for managing a range of information. This is a recording of a live webinar.

 

Writing the Dissertation: the Methods or Methodology

Duration: 60 mins  Recorded Start Training

This webinar covers the essentials of writing a methods or methodology chapter for a dissertation, or extended piece of writing: the difference between the methods and methodology, what's expected and practical ways of structuring the chapter in a clear and coherent way. This is a recording of a live webinar.

 

Writing the Dissertation: the Results and Discussion

Duration: 60 mins  Recorded Start Training

This webinar covers the essentials of writing the results and discussion chapters, or chapter, for a dissertation, or an extended piece of writing: understanding the overarching purpose of both chapters, or sections, in the context of the dissertation, defining the difference, and relationship, between the results and discussion and establishing a structural template for the discussion. This is a recording of a live webinar.

 

Dissertations: combining structure and formatting (Word for PC)

Duration: 1 hour 18 mins  Recorded Start Training

Learn about best practice when formatting a long and structured document such as a dissertation. This is the first of three sessions run by iSolutions/the Library on using Word for PC to create your dissertation. This 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. This is a Panopto recording of a Library Skills for Success workshop.

 

Dissertations: using tables and graphics (Word for PC)

Duration: 1 hour 28 mins  Recorded Start Training

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 sessions run by iSolutions/the Library 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 is a Panopto recording of a Library Skills for Success workshop

 

Dissertations: page layout (Word for PC)

Duration: 1 hour 30 mins  Recorded Start Training

Learn about best practice in Word (for PC) when using page layout features. This is the third of three hands-on sessions using Word for PC to create your dissertation. This session is all about ensuring that you can correctly set up your file paper size and margins; create landscape pages for large tables or diagrams; create running content such as page headers and page numbering; ensure content that you want to appear together stays together. This is a Panopto recording of a Library Skills for Success workshop.