Author: Caitlin Armitage-Conway

This webinar introduces Digital Accessibility of documents and how it can be applied to your own resources to ensure that more people can read and comprehend them.  Questions will also be answered about other aspects of Digital Accessibility too.

Course Leader:  Peter Scorey, LIS Officer for Assistive Technologies.

During your studies, you may come across statistical data that you need to analyse. This session will give you an opportunity to learn more about R, a free, open source statistical software. It is a powerful program that allows you to create graphs from your data, in addition to calculating descriptive statistics and wide range of inferential statistics.

Course Leader: Academic Skills team- ASk@chester.ac.uk

This session provides an introduction to using Endnote bibliographic referencing software. This software is particularly recommended for people doing large pieces of work, including dissertations, systematic reviews, and research students. The session will cover: 

–    How to download Endnote and setup an Endnote Library.  

–    How to add references to your library and organise them.  

–    How to insert selected references into a Word document and create a bibliography using Cite While You Write tools 

Any questions contact: Helen Thomas h.thomas@chester.ac.uk  

Are you starting your literature review and don’t know where to start? This session is aimed at final year undergraduate and postgraduate students and will help you to plan your searches and use time saving search techniques to find the most relevant academic sources. Learn how to use subject specific databases to find high quality academic journals and research papers.    

This session will enable you to:  

• Develop an awareness of different search techniques   

• Discover some subject specific resources 

Any questions contact: Eva Seddon e.seddon@chester.ac.uk 

Join this Webinar to learn how to use the MindMeister app to create on-line mind maps to organise your time, work or assignments.

Course Leader:  Peter Scorey, LIS Officer for Assistive Technologies.

A considered, replicable, transparent literature search forms the basis of a systematic review. Learn how to plan and construct an effective literature search, gain advice on where to look for the most relevant literature for your discipline, and suggestions for documenting your search and search results.  

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