Library Services provides a wide range of training designed to help you get the most out of our resources.
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 2022/23
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 2022/23
We are running workshops again in 2022/23 - these are designed to support postgraduate researchers (and research in general) at Cardiff Met. Some highlights below:
Personal Research Assistant (Zotero)
Finding the Stuff You Need
Useful Scholarly Tools
Bibliometrics and You
Academic Publishing
Research Data Management (RDM)
Introduction to Open Research
Figshare for Doctoral Students
For more details head over to our
Research(er) Elements page - all dates are available on the
Doctoral Academy.
