Have you thought about the ‘new (academic) year – new you’ yet? I was reading the Metro paper the other day and an article by Susan Griffin on productivity caught my eye. Here is the resolutions list she devised: Start…
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Postgraduate Study Suite re-opening delayed
We hoped we could re-open the Postgraduate Study Suite today. Instead, we discovered an interruption to the rooms’ heater water supply that needs to be fixed before they can be re-opened. The |builders have come back in today but current…
Postgraduate Study Suite refurbishment (9-31 August 2019)
The Postgraduate Study Suite in the Library is undergoing refurbishment this August. This will take place in two phases: Phase 1 (Friday 9 – Sunday 11 August) The computers will be removed from the Postgraduate Study Suite but postgraduate students…
A brief look at the life of a postgraduate…
Postgraduate study is a totally different animal. What do I mean by this? First of all, you are more mature and experienced than when you started your undergraduate studies. You should be more focussed as well. Which direction do you…
It’s the end of the year – try some reflection
How did your academic year go? Do you normally judge your success and contentment by the marks you get? Have you ever thought that you could learn from your mistakes as well as your successes? Reflection Reflection is mighty important…
23 wellbeing things. No. 8, Making working work for you
It is a well known saying in business that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. There is some truth in this. Arriving at the end of your course with only hours to spare to start your dissertation is…
The artful editor – all you need to know at this time of the year
Around Easter time, it is final hand in for a lot of you, from essays to end-of-year reports or dissertations. Now you have done the hard work researching your topic and formulating your arguments, how do you make sure you…
Taking good notes might sound boring to some but read on…
Did you know there is a difference between taking notes and making notes? Notetaking means taking notes from original source (later you decide what to quote or paraphrase). Notemaking, however, is your active engagement with what you have read/ heard…
Your computer awaits
Pull up at any PC (or iMac) or borrow laptops from any of the banks of grey lockers on the ground floor and plug it in for instant computing at a pace to suit you. You can plug in and…
Enjoy real action replays of lectures (and parties!)
Lectures can sometimes pass in a blur, and so you might find it useful to record what you hear and augment it with photos of whiteboard notes and so on as the lecture progresses. The same thing probably goes for…
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