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University becomes an Adobe Creative Campus

We’re pleased to announce that the University of Chester is now an Adobe Creative Campus.  

Becoming an Adobe Creative Campus reflects our commitment to fostering creativity, innovation, and digital literacy. 

As part of this initiative, all students and staff have free access to Adobe Express – a powerful online creative platform designed to make content creation simple, quick and easy. From creating engaging social graphics for your sports team/club and impressive presentations for your course to producing stand-out CVs and exciting society event posters, the possibilities are endless: 

  • Create your own designs 
  • Collaborate with friends 
  • Access to templates and professional design tools 
  • Easy video editing  
  • Access anywhere 

Get started with Adobe Express by logging with your university login details.  

Adobe Express is really easy to use, but if you need some support, free training modules are also available. You also have the opportunity to complete free specialist courses on Adobe Digital Academy and on completion of each course, you’ll also receive a digital badge you can share on LinkedIn.  

Click here to find out more.   

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🍵✨ No Place Like Home – Tea Party! 🌍💛

Start Date: 28 October 2025 1:30 pm

End Date: 28 October 2025 3:00 pm

Location: Community Hub, Exton Park

Join us for a cozy international tea party celebrating culture, comfort, and community! ☕🫖

Wear your ethnic attire or bring along something that reminds you of home 💫

Limited spaces – first come, first served! 🌸

Let’s sip, share, and celebrate the beauty of our global family 💕

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Sip and paint

Start Date: 22 October 2025 6:30 pm

End Date: 22 October 2025 8:00 pm

Location: Community Hub, Exton Park

Come get cozy in your PJs and unleash your inner artist! ✨

Limited spaces – first come, first served! 🩷

Don’t miss out on a night of creativity, comfort, and community 🎨💫

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Diwali Pop-Up!

Start Date: 20 October 2025 3:00 pm

End Date: 20 October 2025 5:00 pm

Location: Grosvenor Common Room, Exton Park

Join Chaplaincy for a joyful Diwali celebration with snacks, drinks & festive crafts! 🌟

Please come in your ethnic wear! ✨

Limited spaces – first come, first served! 💥

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Summer Estates work

What’s new for 2025/26? 

Throughout the summer our Estates and Facilities has been busy working on some key projects ready for the new academic year 🥳 👇

📍The Bar, Exton Park 

The Union Bar has had a glow-up for 2025/26. 

We’ve improved the Back Bar Area to accommodate a new refreshments area, social lounge and multi-use events space. We’ve also added a new folding wall which can be used for larger events. 

The Front Bar Area has also had a refresh – there’s a new-look bar, lounge seating, a raised dining area and refreshed sports areas with bespoke a bespoke dartboard wall.

📍 The Canopy, Exton Park

We’ve got a brand-new outdoors space at Exton Park. Located between Astbury and Fisher, The Canopy will host a range of outdoor events throughout Welcome Week.

📍 Grosvenor Common Room, Exton Park 

We’ve also given Grosvenor Common Room some TLC over summer. In the Common Room you can now find a pool table along with some comfy new furniture.

📍 Thomas building, Exton Park 

We’ve refurbished the ground and fist floor labs to provide a new student project room, reptile room and marine facility. 

📍 FinTech Laboratory, Churchill House, Queen’s Park 

We’ve reconfigured the lower-ground floor to provide new 60+ capacity computer lab. 

📍 Bache Hall

Bache Hall has a brand-new look. We’ve refurbished and redecorated both the interior and exterior of the building, and we’ve also made alterations to the labs to improve functionality.

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Library webinar: Advanced EndNote

Start Date: 30 October 2025 2:30 pm

End Date: 30 October 2025 3:30 pm

Location: Online

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This session is aimed at staff and students who have already attended an introduction session. It aims to help you personalise your EndNote library further by:

  • ​Creating groups to organise your references, use PDF notes and keyword searching
  • Import extra styles and adapt templates
  • Import references from wider sources not compatible with EndNote via direct export – e.g. Google Scholar​

Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk

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Library webinar: ​Guide to streaming audio-visual resources

Start Date: 30 October 2025 11:00 am

End Date: 30 October 2025 11:45 am

Location: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_NDI1MThjZGItZTczNS00NjYwLWI2ODItNjdiMTE1NmI2ODIw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22:%2218843e6e-1846-456c-a05c-500f0aee12f6%22%2c%22Oid%22:%22f243025d-5614-488f-b840-f2ffc0634821%22%7d

Did you know that the University subscribes to a wide range of audio and video streaming platforms, that you can access 24/7 for your research? Stream film, documentary, theatre, television, music, dance, plus training videos to your device via Portal. This session will show you how to locate: 

  • Kanopy Film (film/documentaries/recorded talks/training videos) 
  • Rocks Back Pages (musical streaming and music journalism/magazines).    
  • Digital Theatre Plus (stream entire recorded theatre productions and dramatology/writers, directors and performance criticism.   

All students are welcome to this session, it might be particularly helpful for Music, Media and Performance, Social and Political Science, Humanities, Education and Business. 

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Library webinar: ​Introduction to using EndNote 

Start Date: 29 October 2025 2:30 pm

End Date: 29 October 2025 3:30 pm

Location: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MWNlMjUxYmItYzFmYi00ZTg2LTljZjQtNDFmYTAwNDZhNzBi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22:%2218843e6e-1846-456c-a05c-500f0aee12f6%22%2c%22Oid%22:%229e4f08ab-d0fb-4562-930b-206b3642e034%22%7d

​This session will demonstrate how to use EndNote bibliographic software. It will include: 

• Setting up and organising an EndNote library. 

• Adding references to a library using manual or direct export (from subject databases and Library Search) 

• How to attach a PDF to an EndNote record 

• How to choose a reference style and create in-text citations and a bibliography using Cite While you Write with MS Word. 

Aimed at all staff and students level 6 and above

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Library webinar: Need help finding education journal articles? Session for School of Education students

Start Date: 23 October 2025 5:30 pm

End Date: 23 October 2025 6:30 pm

Location: Online

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This session will focus on advanced search strategies using the Education databases. 

It is also an opportunity for you to pop along with any library related questions that you might have.​ 

Any questions please contact Fiona Warburton f.warburton@chester.ac.uk

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Library webinar: ​Literature searching for your systematic review

Start Date: 22 October 2025 10:00 am

End Date: 22 October 2025 11:00 am

Location: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MzFmMWRiYTMtMGM0MS00ODY3LTkwZmQtMjA4YWUwMDJiZmE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22:%2218843e6e-1846-456c-a05c-500f0aee12f6%22%2c%22Oid%22:%22d689cecb-1e65-4ed6-aade-8cd4f55ff6ed%22%7d

​This session will enable you to: 

  • Think strategically and critically about your literature search 
  • Create a search strategy for a systematic literature search 
  • Identify key relevant resources for your search 
  • Apply advanced search techniques and retrieve relevant literature​​

Any questions please contact Caitlyn Hallman-Lewis c.hallmanlewis@chester.ac.uk

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