• Dialling Down The Volume: Your Blackboard Notifications Are Improving

    From 1 March 2024, you can say hello to a less cluttered inbox. The best part? You don’t have to do anything! Unless you want a customised experience. Let’s dive into how we’re making your Blackboard email notifications more manageable.

  • UniSkills Focus On: Confirmation Bias and Critical Thinking

    This month your UniSkills Focus On… blog is taking a brief detour from discussing resources to explore a phenomenon known as confirmation bias. Developing your critical thinking skills is an important part of studying at university. Being critical is complex but includes: You’ll find links to UniSkills resources which can help you develop your own…

  • Supporting Open Research at Edge Hill

    Edge Hill supports open research through its open research statement, open access and research data management policies. The publication of UNESCO’s Recommendation on Open Science illustrated that the move towards open research (or science if you prefer) is a global undertaking and United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) cite open research as ‘integral to their mission to deliver economic and social benefit…

  • Win With Wordle: Welcome Competition January 2024

    Library and Learning Services are thrilled to welcome all new students starting at Edge Hill in January. To kick off in style, we’ve organised an amazing Wordle challenge competition with fantastic prizes up for grabs.

  • Library and Learning Services Welcomes New Students in January 2024

    It may be cold outside but a warm welcome awaits all new students starting at Edge Hill in January. We’re really looking forward to meeting everyone and supporting you on this exciting journey. We’re the Student Engagement Team, also known as UniSkills and we’re here to ensure your academic experience is smooth sailing. We understand…

  • New Year New UniSkills: Student Advisor Academic Study Goals for 2024

    Happy New Year and welcome back! We hope you are feeling refreshed after the break and are raring to go for the new term ahead. It can be difficult to get back in to study mode particularly with the cold, dark winter mornings but New Year is the perfect time to reflect on your academic…

  • UniSkills Focus On: Nursing Times CPD Zone 

    As the term races forward, we’ve reached the final instalment of our monthly UniSkills Focus On… blog series for 2023. This month we are exploring Nursing Times CPD Zone.

  • A Year in the Archive

    2023 has been a huge year for the EHU Archive (and we have this blog to prove it!). Here’s a look back at the past twelve months in the archive…

  • “The Letters to Mr. Eason”

    Part I: The Letters Recently in the archive, we undertook one of our stocktakes, which is the process of going through each individual item we have and making a note of any repackaging, digitisation, cataloguing needed etc. The stocktake is also a great way of finding some of the exciting (and sometimes mysterious) treasures we…

  • UniSkills Focus On: SPORTDiscus 

    Welcome to the latest instalment of your UniSkills Focus On… blog, where this month we take a look at SPORTDiscus.