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The College’s highly-respected programme of academic skills development, WolfWorks, has kicked off with a workshop on – with a varied series of invaluable sessions scheduled across the year.
WolfWorks is a programme of academic skills workshops, designed to help students at every level of their studies and research, and across all disciplines. Topics cover everything from writing for publication and finishing a dissertation to CV and interviewing skills, presentation skills and note making.
The sessions will be online again for the academic year 2022-2023, in order to reach as many students as possible. And they’ll take place on Saturdays from 10:00-11:30, so that full- and part-time students can attend and learn from one another.
“WolfWorks helps you with a range of academic skills, and I have found I always have room for improvement in many areas,â€� says Abbernaa Dhevi Kukananthan, Third Year Undergraduate, who has attended several WolfWorks sessions since joining ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½.
Abbernaa is keen to recommend WolfWorks to students on any course and study level: “Any possible improvement helps our work remarkably,� she says, “so definitely take up at least one WolfWorks programme, if you can!"
In Michaelmas term, the workshops focus on academic skills essential for transitioning to a new level of study at the University. In the Lent term, the emphasis moves to employability skills, preparing for exams, and looking at beginning a dissertation. In Easter term, WolfWorks takes a step back to focus on broader research skills and finishing your dissertation.
You can find the complete programme of our workshops on the .
“The workshops will be a little different this year,â€� says Alberto Garcia Jr, ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½â€™s Academic Skills Librarian, “providing a more hands-on experience for students. We are taking a flipped classroom approach: students will be invited to engage with material on the updated before attending the workshop. They then have the chance to apply those skills in the session in a supportive environment.â€�
WolfWorks workshops are part of a more extensive academic skills support programme offered by the College Library. In addition to the workshops, students can book one-to-one academic skills sessions with the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ librarians and receive academic writing support in the form of bookable writing surgeries with our ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Writing Consultants and attend Write Here, Write Now sessions where they can write or study in a structured and supportive environment.