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2024
June
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PGT Refresher: Academic Integrity and Referencing Skills for your Dissertation
-You will need to ensure your dissertation complies with academic integrity and referencing requirements. This will also help enhance the quality of your academic writing and overall argument. The session will provide you with an overview of academic integrity and discuss how this relates to your dissertation.
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Climate Cafe - Community Growing
-Join Aberdeen Climate Action for their June Climate Cafe on "Community Growing" in association with Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE).
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PGT Refresher Series: Presenting your Dissertation Research Orally
-This is a live Teams session which will provide practical advice on presenting your dissertation research orally. Some PGT students have an oral presentation component to their overall dissertation project. Although this session will be generic (you must take account of specific course guidelines), this session will discuss tips for...
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PGT Refresher: Planning & Time Management for your dissertation
-Dissertations and research projects require a lot of planning and organising, so good time management is important. In this workshop we look at creating a planner to help you keep on track and strategies to help you manage your time effectively as you start your dissertation.
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PGT Refresher Series: Tips and Advice on Approaching & Managing your Dissertation
-This is a live Teams session which will provide practical advice on approaching your dissertation. We will cover: the role of your supervisor; project ideas / scope of question; literature / source review; overall structure.
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Digital Skills For Success
-A range of digital and information skills sessions are being offered in June. Everyone is welcome; whether you want to refresh your skills, learn new techniques, or enhance your knowledge. All sessions will be hosted in-person at the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Find more information on the Course Booking System....
May
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PGT Refresher: Reviewing literature and critical reading
-Sometimes a dissertation is a literature review in itself. Dissertations tend to require a process of reviewing existing literature to establish what the dissertation adds that is new. This session looks at the processes of reviewing literature and points out some of the questions to ask yourself.
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PGT Refresher: Intellectual work in your PGT context
-As a postgraduate student approaching a dissertation/project, you are required to engage in and express clearly your own ‘intellectual work’, not simply to gather information. In other words, you are critically constructing knowledge. What does that mean in practice? This session answers that question.
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Creative Collections Lunchtime Doodle
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Relax and enjoy some mindful moments as you investigate and draw selected specimens and artefacts from the University collections.
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PGT Refresher: Note-taking strategies for your dissertation
-Research projects require a lot of reading, lab work and this means we need good note-taking techniques to record and organise this information. This workshop looks at different effective techniques for making organised, interactive notes from your sources, practical activities etc. which can help when you start writing your dissertation.