• Drop-in sessions​ are regularly scheduled should you need general resource advice from any of our Academic Librarians

• Check out our MetFlix quick help videos from Library Services and IT
  

• You can arrange one-to-one sessions with the Academic Librarian​ for your School​ if you need tailored subject-specific information
  

We also deliver a number of training courses throughout the year. Below you will find more information about the courses on offer. Please contact us if you need more help and advice.

Academic Practice Workshop-Webinars 2021/22

We are again running our popular online academic practice workshops to help you with your studies. They'll take you from fundamental library skills onto producing critical writing. For details of the workshops, and to book, visit our academic skills pages, or go straight to MetHub to book. Our workshops on MetHub are listed under 'General workshop/lecture' or can be searched under 'Events' by typing 'Library workshop'. If you can't manage a workshop just now, more workshops will be added throughout the academic year!

Learning at University: what's it all about?

Being Critical: making effective use of academic sources

Defining academic writing: what is it and how do you start to do it?

Referencing: why is it important and how do you do it?

Basic MetSearch for finding quality sources

How to evaluate information

*New* Introduction to literature searching

*New* Reference management tools: what are they and how can they help you?

Research(er) Elements Workshops

We are running new workshops in 2021 - these are designed to support research (and post-grad researchers) at Cardiff Met. Some highlights below:

Research Data Management (RDM)

Zotero Workshops

Searching Systematically - Finding the Gaps

Academic Publishing

Bibliometrics

Introduction to Open Research

Tools of the Scholarly Trade

For more details head over to our Research(er) Elements page - all dates are available on the Doctoral Academy.