Postgraduate Students (Taught Programmes): Welcome and Support

This Guide has been created to support BU Postgraduate students on taught programmes (e.g. MA, MSc, PG Cert).

Post Graduate Reasearchers (PhD, MPhil and MRes) should consult the Postgraduate Researchers Guide

Academic skills workshops include (2024-25):

Academic integrity and plagiarism

• Academic integrity and plagiarism

Academic Writing

• Academic style
• Editing and refining your work
• Paraphrasing & Synthesising sources
• Understanding structure
• Writing abstracts, introductions and conclusions

Assessment success

• Revision & exams
• Understanding and planning your assignment

Critical thinking

• Critical thinking

Healthy study habits

• Staying motivated
• Time management

Reference management

• BU Harvard referencing
• Reference management: EndNote 

Research strategies

• Literature searching
• Strategies for reading academic texts

Speaking with confidence

• Presentation skills
• Seminar discussions

Statistical analysis

• Using SPSS

Studying at university

• Listening to lectures