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Study Happy with your Student Advisors: Making Time to Make Time
Winston Churchill famously noted that we should “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” Whether you’re just starting your first semester as an undergraduate or juggling work alongside postgraduate study, the key to academic success is to make time to plan ahead. The busy student schedule and academic demands mean it is impossible…
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Study Happy with your Student Advisors: How to Proofread Effectively
While proofreading your work is an important part of completing an assignment, for many of us it is often forgotten, rushed, or left to the last minute. But what is proofreading? Why is proofreading important? When is best to proofread your work? And how might you improve your proofreading? Here, I share my tips as…
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Study Happy with your Student Advisors: Settling into academic life
Hi, my name is Tom and I have just started my second year in Politics and Sociology. I am one of your Student Advisors, working with the Library and Learning services team. Coming back to university again has been great and I’m really excited for what is to come. With having finished my first year,…
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Say Hello to your UniSkills Student Advisors!
Library and Learning Services has recently recruited some new Student Advisors to join our already established (and award winning!) UniSkills team. As current students, they bring a wealth of experience from studying at Edge Hill as well as a great variety of subject knowledge from their individual disciplines. You may have already met some of them at our…
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UniSkills Focus On: Statista
Welcome back to the second blog of our UniSkills Focus On… series. This month we are looking at the business resource Statista. Statista is a world leading source of market and consumer data and statistics and is a fantastic resource for students across all programmes of study!
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Open for climate justice – Open Access week and healthcare publications
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Why ‘open’ benefits readers and scholars worldwide
With the theme of ‘Open for Climate Justice’, this year’s International Open Access Week invites us to collaborate, making connections between the climate movement and communities of research users (universities, practitioners, policy makers, members of the public) worldwide.
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How do I control my notifications from Learning Edge (Blackboard)?
In Learning Edge, you’re able to set how often you would like to receive email notifications from your course area – You can set to receive them as they happen or can instead opt for all updates to be delivered once per day at approximately 5:30pm in “Daily Notifications” email. You can also specify the…
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‘Open for climate justice’ – Open Access papers authored by researchers in Biology
As we explained yesterday, open access makes new research and data available to a wider audience, particularly those who have less or no access to traditional subscription journals. It can increase the citation counts and impact of research papers as scholarship gets disseminated more widely and reaches more readers. International Open Access Week celebrates open…
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Get ready for Study Happy Week!
*NEW* on the blog ? Read all about what the UniSkills team has in store for Study Happy Week ? Including daily Student Advisor drop-ins, free fruit, and more! ? #EHUStudyHappy