Study skills hub

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 22 April 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen workshops are open to all. They give you the chance to get to know others from different disciplines and to practise communicating. Each time we meet we engage in interactive activities involving your voice, your body and your ears! We discuss confidence from perspectives of both speaker and listener and identify communication strategies to take away and apply in different contexts. To get maximum benefit and build your confidence incrementally, we recommend coming to more than one workshop. These interactive sessions are not recorded. The content is different each time, as it is built by you on the day. Slides are not available.

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How to Write Scientific Reports

Wednesday 22 April 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop guides students through the structure and conventions of effective scientific reporting. Participants will learn how to present methods, results, and analysis clearly and objectively, using appropriate scientific language and formatting. Through practical examples and hands‑on activities, the session helps students develop confidence in organising data, interpreting findings, and communicating scientific information with accuracy and clarity.

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Google Vids: quick video creation

Wednesday 22 April 2026 11am - 12.30pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff/research graduate

Google Vids is a web-based video editing tool, available as part of Google Workspace. In this bitesize session, we’ll show you how to easily compile and edit your own videos. We’ll explore, using the in-built recording feature, importing pre-existing videos and how to cut your video clips. This is an online session held via Zoom.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 22 April 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Library, LFA/144. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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10 tips for better engagement in Zoom presentations

Wednesday 22 April 2026 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

How can you make your Zoom sessions more interesting than just a simple video call? Whether it’s for a meeting, presentation, teaching session or interview: Zoom has a huge range of features that can make your sessions more dynamic with added interactivity and engagement.

We will look at tips including:

• Using whiteboards and annotation tools to collaborate and brainstorm in real-time

• Boosting engagement through interactive polls and surveys

• Creating and managing breakout rooms

• Elevating your presentations with advanced screen sharing and remote control (no more "next slide please!")
• Capturing your content by recording, pausing, and sharing your sessions efficiently

Video conferencing

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ANOVAs

Thursday 23 April 2026 2pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

This session explains various ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) tests which look for significant differences between different groups or measures. During the workshop you will be able to practice running these tests in your chosen statistical software, (e.g. SPSS, RStudio, STATA).

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Critical Thinking: What It Is and How to Do It

Friday 24 April 2026 11am - 12.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Students are often told that they need to think critically. In this session, you will learn how you think critically all the time and how to apply this to thinking critically in your studies. There will be clear examples of critical thinking and we will show you how you can do this in a number of academic contexts. Please find related online resources here:https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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Successful Supervisor Meetings at PGT and UG Level

Tuesday 28 April 2026 3.30pm - 5pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

A supervisor is someone you have the opportunity to meet for one-to-one consultation on your academic progress and intentions. Effective communication and preparation are essential for these meetings to go well. This workshop focuses on the role of a dissertation supervisor. We discuss how supervisors can and can't help you and what you can do to get the most out of your supervisory relationship.

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PGT Dissertation Writing 1: Introduction and Literature Review

Wednesday 29 April 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

This workshop is for postgraduate taught students only. It will look at the purpose of introductions and literature reviews and then go on to examine how they can be structured and the sort of information they typically contain. It will also focus on the academic skills and language needed to write these sections of a dissertation.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 29 April 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Library, LFA/144. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodivergent or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Wednesday 29 April 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room (Harry Fairhurst Building, Campus West)
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen workshops are open to all. They give you the chance to get to know others from different disciplines and to practise communicating. Each time we meet we engage in interactive activities involving your voice, your body and your ears! We discuss confidence from perspectives of both speaker and listener and identify communication strategies to take away and apply in different contexts. To get maximum benefit and build your confidence incrementally, we recommend coming to more than one workshop. These interactive sessions are not recorded. The content is different each time, as it is built by you on the day. Slides are not available.

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Data visualisation & infographics

Wednesday 29 April 2026 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Digital Skills & Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

How you present your data has a massive impact on audience understanding and engagement. Using different data visualisations can also provide you with new insights into your data findings. In this workshop we will cover the principles for working with data, from data cleaning to visualisation.

Data: Data visualisation

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