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Skills for Learning workshops and events are mixture of live sessions and on-demand recordings.

Skills for Learning events

Skills for Learning - all on-demand workshop recordings

Starts: 15 Jan 2025, 9:00 am

Finishes: 31 Aug 2026, 1:27 pm

All of the Skills for Learning workshop recordings can be found within the description below.

Learn to speak English with confidence

Starts: 3 Oct 2025, 11:00 am

Finishes: 3 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Venue: City Campus, Leslie Silver, Room 104

Do you speak English as an additional language and want to feel more confident? Come along to these practical sessions and you will learn how to improve your speaking.

Academic Skills briefing 1- City campus

Starts: 6 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Finishes: 6 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm

Venue: City Campus, Leslie Silver, Room 104

This briefing for international students will prepare you further for study. It covers the many academic skills resources and services available to support you in your assignments, highlighting key sources of guidance.

Top Tips for Academic Skills

Starts: 7 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm

Finishes: 7 Oct 2025, 1:30 pm

Join our informal online workshop for undergraduates and pick up top tips on time management, writing, referencing, and more. Drop in anytime during the session to chat, ask questions, and boost your study skills!

Academic Skills briefing 2

Starts: 9 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm

Finishes: 9 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm

Learn to speak English with confidence

Starts: 10 Oct 2025, 11:00 am

Finishes: 10 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Venue: City Campus, Leslie Silver, Room 104

Do you speak English as an additional language and want to feel more confident? Come along to these practical sessions and you will learn how to improve your speaking.

Writing academically - live online workshop

Starts: 13 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Finishes: 13 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm

Remaining places: 25

This interactive workshop provides guidance on effective writing at university level. Learn how to improve your formality and style, develop methods for thinking objectively, and understand how to structure your work.

Academic Skills briefing 3

Starts: 14 Oct 2025, 11:00 am

Finishes: 14 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Learn to speak English with confidence

Starts: 17 Oct 2025, 11:00 am

Finishes: 17 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Venue: City Campus, Leslie Silver, Room 104

Do you speak English as an additional language and want to feel more confident? Come along to these practical sessions and you will learn how to improve your speaking.

Top Tips for Academic Skills

Starts: 17 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm

Finishes: 17 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm

Welcome to your Sport & Exercise Science pages

Your Academic Librarian creates these pages to help you access quality academic resources.

We also support your studies through:

school liaison - working with your school to ensure the Library has the resources you need
collection development - purchasing resources for your course
teaching - delivering inductions, one-to-one appointments and specialist sessions to help you develop your skills
research support - supporting staff and research students to make the most of information sources

Book an appointment

For specific help with academic skills, you can book up to two, 30 minute one-to-one appointments with an Academic Librarian or Academic Skills Tutor per semester.

Appointments can take place online or at City or Headingley campus – please click into an individual appointment to see which locations are available (all slots can be booked as online appointments).

The Academic Librarian Team

Karen Fisher, Catherine Parkin, Maria Simões, Jennie Winterburn, Amber Edwards, Rachel Davies, Jess Haigh, Caroline Robinson

Skills for Learning events

Welcome to your Sport & Exercise Science pages

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