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Academic communication support for Medical Sciences students

We offer tutorials, webinars, workshops, courses, retreats and resources to support you to develop your academic communication and research skills.

The 鶹ýƵվ Academic Communication Centre (ACC) is for all students, to support you to communicate critically and confidently at university, and to help you understand what is expected of you in your assignments.

Enrol on theto find out all about our support, including:

  • Webinarscover key strategies, resources, and include an opportunity for Q&A on a range of topics related to academic reading, writing, and presentations.
  • Writing retreatsprovide a supportive, motivating environment to work on your own writing.
  • Writing process workshopsgive you strategies for writing and opportunities for practice.
  • Reading and note-taking coursessupport you in becoming a more critical and effective academic reader.
  • Grammar for academic writing coursesare forstudents with English as an additional languageto improve your grammar knowledge and usage, and to help you write more clearly.
  • Postgraduate academic writing coursesenable you to communicate critically and confidently in your writing at Master’s level.
  • Postgraduate dissertation/research project writing coursesintroduce you to the key aspects of writing your dissertation/research project and support you with writing this longer piece of research at Master’s level.
  • Oral communication workshopssupport you in developing your confidence and fluency in academic speaking.
  • GenAI and the writing process workshopshelpyou take a critical stance towards the use of GenAI tools, particularly for use in the writing process.
  • One-to-one tutorialscan be used to work on, for example: the language and structure of your writing; to practice a presentation; to discuss learning strategies and the transition to postgraduate study; to help you in understanding the specific requirements and conventions of an assignment that you are working on.
  • Asynchronous resourcesare available on a dedicated Moodle to support you in key areas of academic communication.

“I had the chance to speak to other students which was reassuring as we are all having the same experience and you might feel behind but when you speak to others you realise you are not. So, very useful for knowledge, resources and also to relieve academic stress!”

- Postgraduate student

“I had the chance to speak to other students which was reassuring as we are all having the same experience and you might feel behind but when you speak to others you realise you are not. So, very useful for knowledge, resources and also to relieve academic stress!”

- Postgraduate student