Skip to Main Content

Childhood Studies

Study and Research Skills

Study Skills

The Study Skills team are available to support you in many ways! From improving your time management skills to honing your expertise in critical writing, the team is there to help you develop your confidence, skills and abilities in reading scholarly resources, thinking critically, finding your 'academic voice' and can even help with your statistics skills development.

Copyright

Need to know how you can reuse someone else's material? Want guidance on attributing an image? Looking for open access sources for images or music? Our copyright pages can help you with all of these questions and more!

Centre for Academic Language and Development

Staff from the Centre for Academic Language and Development recognise that 'nobody is born speaking academic English'! They are available to help students develop the skills needed to make good progress throughout their studies.

Finding Research Data

If you need research data to analyse, this guide to research data will help you explore sources of qualitative and quantitative data that are available to you through the university. 

IT support and training

Desk with computer

Thinking of buying Microsoft Office, SPSS or other software? As a student of the university, you have access to a range of free software

IT services have a wonderful suite of resources to help you with everything from getting started to developing new skills and knowledge.

Help with using Microsoft Office can be found through a suite of self learning tools. IT terminology can be confusing, so there is also a helpful glossary available.

Many queries can be resolved by going to the IT webpages for current students.

Systematic Reviews

screen shot of the "systematic reviews for the social sciences" lib guide

If you are undertaking a systematic or scoping literature review as part of your studies, have a look at our guide to Systematic Reviews for the Social Sciences

Sage Research Methods

Question mark drawn in chalk on a chalkboard

Sage Research Methods is a very useful resource when it comes to finding out about research methodology.