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On this page you'll find information about our skills training events, as well as links to other training offered by the Library & IT Services, and the Academic Skills Community...
& Academic Skills Community workshops
We run a number of skills training sessions each term.
Digital skills training sessions and Digital Wednesdays are open to all members of the University. Academic Skills Community and other sessions may be limited to students only. You can filter the list to only show sessions of relevance to staff or research postgraduates.
To book onto a session, follow its link below (you'll need to log in to the booking system). If a session you're interested in is full, sign up onto the waiting list — if we have enough interest in a session we may repeat it. You'll also find copies of our slides throughout the Skills Guides
Most of our training is online but we've made space available on campus should you need somewhere to join from.
See the full list of Academic Skills Community workshops.
We also run a number of specialised training sessions for staff and research postgraduates:
The Open Research team offer training to postgraduate researchers and staff through the Building Research and Innovation Capacity (BRIC) programme.
To book a session go to: SkillsForge - Postgraduate Researchers or LMS - Staff (login required).
Next sessions:
If you need information, take a look at the:
You can also contact the team by email lib-open-research@york.ac.uk to:
Alternatively, book an Open Research Online Appointment to discuss your individual needs.
Our Digital skills training programme is open to all members of the University.
We have a broad range of content as part of the programme (including our Digital Wednesdays), but each term we aim to include the following eight core sessions:
| "Where did I read that thing?": Reference management |
| Let's get critical I: Credible sources |
| Let's get critical II: Finding the right reading |
| Let's get critical III: How to read an article |
| Let's get critical IV: Active critical reading |
| Academic posters: Posers with a Power(ful) Point |
| It's all in the presentation: creating and presenting your slides |
| Microsoft Word: Academic documents |
Follow the links above for more help on the topic and to see if any forthcoming sessions have been scheduled.
Digital Wednesdays are a range of sessions on various themes outside of our core selection of training. They may have a specialist focus, or they may just be plain out there! The only essential is that they're on a topic that's remotely digital.
For Digital Wednesdays this spring term, we are running a series of Learn to code creative coding sessions that will introduce you to a variety of coding languages environments. Each tool been chosen for its ease-of-use, and because it will contribute to your overall understanding of coding.
You can come to just one session that interests you most, or all of them. You'll find them all on the training sessions list, under the Digital Wednesdays banner. You can also find more about coding on our Coding Practical Guide.
The animated GIF above was created using Processing, which is similar to one of the tools we'll be using, p5.js.
The Academic Skills Community is the University of York approach to learning and communication support designed to help students advance their academic, language and interpersonal abilities.
Academic Skills Community workshops take place regularly as informal face-to-face or online sessions on the following skills areas:
Academic Critical Reading
Academic Critical Writing
Data Skills
Communication & Collaboration
Self Development & Reflection
Digital Skills (via the Digital skills training programme)
Most of our teaching this term will be delivered either online via Zoom, in LFA/144, or in the Creativity Lab (LFA/103).
