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Study skills hub

Develop academic and communication skills to help you learn more effectively.

You need strong study skills to succeed throughout your degree. To help you develop, we offer four types of service to suit different learning styles:

  • online learning guides
  • hands-on experience and use of equipment
  • one-to-one support
  • workshops

Where to start

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Skills Guides

Our Skills Guides are online resources to develop your academic writing, digital skills and more.

Subject Guides

Our Subject Guides include Library resources and support for your subject and contact details for your Faculty Librarians.

Common topics

Managing your reading

Finding credible information

Academic writing

English language support

Digital skills

Maths and stats

Academic integrity and referencing

Critical thinking

Assessment and feedback

Dissertations and literature reviews

Organising yourself

Presentations and speaking

Need more?

One-to-one appointments

One-to-one appointments for academic writing, maths skills, data skills, and study coaching are tailored to your specific needs.

Equipment hire

Hire a range of digital tools and equipment from our Creativity Lab.

Forthcoming study and digital skills workshops

Event

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 12 August 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

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

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 12 August 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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Event

Editing and Proofreading

Monday 17 August 2026 6pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Editing and Proofreading

Monday 17 August 2026 6pm - 7.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

If you find it difficult to edit or proofread your own work effectively, this is the session for you. During this workshop, you will learn a number of different strategies and techniques to help you redraft your written work and also identify and correct errors. Find related online resources here: https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/academic-writing

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PGT Dissertation Writing 2: Methods and Results

Wednesday 19 August 2026 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

PGT Dissertation Writing 2: Methods and Results

Wednesday 19 August 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 methodology and results sections, and then go on to examine how they can be structured and the sort of information they typically contain. We will give a brief summary of the most popular software used to help you analyse your data and present it in your report. This workshop will also focus on the skills and language needed to write these sections of a dissertation.

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Event

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 19 August 2026 12.30pm - 1.30pm

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

The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 19 August 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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All forthcoming study and digital skills workshops

Contact us

Contact the Library Help desk with any questions you have about study skills.

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