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Get Started this summer with UniSkills
We are already looking forward to welcoming all the new students who will be joining us this September, and if you are a one of them and fancy a taste of what support UniSkills can offer you during your time at the University check out our Getting Started With UniSkills offer.
Getting Started With UniSkills is a series of webinars and toolkits to specifically support new students who will be enrolling at Edge Hill University this coming autumn, and there is a choice of three topics you can choose from:
- Prepare Your Academic Resilience – will help equip new students with practical tools to nurture your academic resilience, help them recognise the qualities of a ‘growth’ as opposed to ‘fixed’ mindset, and help prepare them to feel confident in dealing constructively with feedback.
- Introduction to Academic Writing at University – introduces new students to what academic writing is, and what it involves at university level. We will look at what to expect as a new student at Edge Hill University, how to get the most out of your learning and how to maintain your study motivation.
- Research Skills at University – discover more about developing your research skills in preparation for studying at Edge Hill University. We will introduce new students to the concept of academic information, the importance of using dedicated search tools to find information and discuss good note-taking techniques for carrying out your research.
New students are welcome to join our live webinars throughout August and September and can access the accompanying interactive toolkits at a date/time that suits you. Please note the toolkits will be live from mid-August, as they are being specially developed in conjunction with the live sessions.
For more information, and to book your place on a Getting Started With UniSkills webinar please visit our Getting Started With UniSkills web pages. And don’t forget to visit the university’s Getting Started web pages for further advice and support for all new students at Edge Hill University.
So, enjoy the rest of your summer and we will see you (hopefully in a webinar) soon!
- Prepare Your Academic Resilience – will help equip new students with practical tools to nurture your academic resilience, help them recognise the qualities of a ‘growth’ as opposed to ‘fixed’ mindset, and help prepare them to feel confident in dealing constructively with feedback.
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Catalyst news
We are pleased to announce that we will be re-opening the ground floor of Catalyst on the 13th August at 9.00am . We are just finishing off checking all of our safety measures and we look forward to seeing you on the 13th.
You will be able to:
- Use the brand new ‘Click and Collect’ service based on the ground floor
- Return books you have had on loan
- Access our ground floor printers and PCs
Here’s more detail about a temporary measure we are providing in response to COVID – it’s called ‘Click and Collect’. The service allows you to choose the items you need – you can use your reading list or the Library Catalogue or Discover More to find the books you want to borrow. You will place a request and then we will retrieve your items. We will let you know when they are ready for collection. You can pop in and we will hand the books over!. We will issue more information when we re-open.
We will initially open 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday only.
Unfortunately Catalyst Help desk will not be open at this time – but you can access help and support via email or Live Chat. We will let you know as soon as we can about the return of the Help Desk and also changes to opening hours.
Follow us on social media for more updates.
www.twitter.com/EHULearnService
www.facebook.com/EHULearnService
See you soon
Catalyst Team
Be Kind. Be Patient. Be Responsible.
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We Are Getting Ready to Welcome You Back
Hello everyone! How are we all doing?
It’s been a while since we shared any news about Catalyst and we’d like to thank you for your patience over the last few months. We have all missed our beautiful building and campus – these lovely flowers have greeted us this week.
We wanted to share with you the updates to the building we are making to ensure that when we do reopen in mid August, everything is safe for you and our staff.
Throughout the building we are installing hand sanitising stations and rearranging furniture to support social distancing. We are installing screens at our help-desk and are reviewing our working practices across Library and Learning Services, Student Services and Careers to ensure our students and staff are safe when we reopen.
We are excited to announce that we will be launching our new Click and Collect service in August which will allow you to reserve books online and then pop over to Catalyst and collect them. We’ll share more details on this with you soon.
If you have any books that you would like to return, we ask that you keep hold of these until we reopen and you come back onto campus. If you have graduated and still have some books, you should have received an email from us on how to send these back.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all back to Catalyst, and meeting our new students too, we really have missed you!
Catalyst Team
Be Patient. Be Kind. Be Responsible
