- Writing academic English: being cautious
Date: 22 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
This workshop will help you to write better academic English by explaining how to be concise, cautious and impersonal in your writing. You will have the opportunity to identify and practice using these features of good academic writing.
- National Healthcare Conference
Date: 23 June 2021
Venue: Virtual event via Zoom
A collaborative approach in reducing the ethnicity awarding gaps in clinical settings for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students.
- Reading retreat
Date: 23 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
Are you working on a dissertation or final year project? Do you feel like you have lots of reading to do? This reading retreat is a space for you to focus on your reading, providing quiet time to dedicate to reading, whilst being structured to help you focus on what you want to learn from your reading, make sense of what you are reading and consider how what you have read fits in to what you already know.
You must bring at least two texts that you want to read during the session.
- Writing retreat
Date: 23 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
Are you working on a dissertation or final year project? Do you feel like you have lots of writing to do? This writing retreat is a space for you to focus on your writing, providing quiet time to dedicate to writing, whilst being structured to help you focus on your writing goals.
- Global Cafe: A Day in the Life of an International Student
Date: 24 June 2021
Venue: Online Blackboard Collaborate
As a current third year international student at UWE Bristol, I myself, will be sharing personal experiences on how study life has changed during the pandemic. We are delighted to have other international students who have done their classes entirely online from Malaysia, who will be sharing their online learning experience from a different country at a different view. At the same time, comparing what life is like as a student who travelled to the UK.
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to hear our study life on UWE campus and in Bristol with the current international students!
- How to get started with critical writing
Date: 25 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
This workshop looks at what is meant by critical writing and provides an opportunity to review an example of student writing.
- Social Slice
Date: 25 June 2021
Venue: Outside X Block (X Block), Frenchay campus
Come along for a free coffee, a slice of cake, and some friendly company.
- PAL Resilient U 4: Managing mental health and wellbeing (Teaching block 3/summer term)
Date: 29 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
How can you manage stress more effectively? How can you fundamentally change the way you think about yourself and your abilities?
These workshops offer a proactive approach to managing challenges and increasing your personal resilience. Explore evidence-based theories, strategies and tools to apply these skills of resilience in a context relevant to you.
Open to all students, you are welcome to join any or all of the sessions in the series.
- How to put your reading into your writing
Date: 29 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
This workshop will help you to learn how to incorporate themes and ideas from multiple sources into your own work.
- Tenses in academic writing
Date: 30 June 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
This workshop looks at the three most common verb tenses in written academic English, when they are used and provides an opportunity to practise using these.
- Global Cafe: World of sport
Date: 01 July 2021
Venue: Online Blackboard Collaborate
Are you someone who loves playing sports? Do you support a team or have a sport you enjoy watching? Do you have friends and family who are sports fans but you don't share their passion?! Come and join us for an informal chat at the Global Café.
- Reading retreat
Date: 01 July 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
Are you working on a dissertation or final year project? Do you feel like you have lots of reading to do? This reading retreat is a space for you to focus on your reading, providing quiet time to dedicate to reading, whilst being structured to help you focus on what you want to learn from your reading, make sense of what you are reading and consider how what you have read fits in to what you already know.
You must bring at least two texts that you want to read during the session.
- Writing retreat
Date: 01 July 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate (book via InfoHub)
Are you working on a dissertation or final year project? Do you feel like you have lots of writing to do? This writing retreat is a space for you to focus on your writing, providing quiet time to dedicate to writing, whilst being structured to help you focus on your writing goals.
- How to plan and structure your writing
Date: 05 July 2021
Venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate
This workshop looks at what written assignments are asking you to do and how to go about planning and structuring your response.
- HEPPP Webinar - Ableism and higher education: implications for research, teaching and assessment
Date: 07 July 2021
Venue: Blackboard Collaborate
Hosted by Ciaran Burke on behalf of the HEPPP (Higher Education Pedagogies, Policy and Practice) research network.
Ciaran will begin by outlining the ways in which social research is based on ableist assumptions and traditions before then unpacking the consequences of this and presenting an alternative approach.
