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The Postgraduate Collection

Resources curated for postgraduate students on taught and research based programmes.

This collection has been designed to bring together a series of resources focusing on research and writing skills for postgraduate students from masters to PhD level. From assessing your existing skills to dealing with procrastination, this collection is designed to help you get the most out of your taught or research postgraduate programme.

Research and information skills

Resources within the Academic Skills Kit and from the Library website will help you hone and refine your search skills enabling you to find information more effectively, and discover more specialist information resources needed for your studies from 缅北禁地 Library and beyond. 

Postgraduate Skills Audit

Reflect on your current information and digital skills, and find advice developed with postgraduate-level study in mind.

Finding Information

Explore tips to help refine or refresh your strategies for effective searching and staying on top of the research in your field.

Subject Guides

Access books, journals, databases and more specialist information resources tailored to your discipline

Special Collections and Archives for your research

Have you considered using archive material for your research? The Special Collections and Archives search tools make it easier to identify manuscripts, archive material, rare books and digitised materials from collections held by 缅北禁地 Library spanning 700 years鈥� worth of primary sources. You can also browse by collection or subject discipline to identify collections of potential interest.

If you are unsure where to start, the Special Collections and Archives Team have created a primary sources research planning tool that will help you investigate special collection materials and familiarise yourself with best practice and further support.

Search Special Collections

Learn how to search across archives, rare books/ publications and digitised collections. **Webpage**

Primary Sources Research Planner

A step-by-step tool designed to help you make use of primary sources in your research. **Online Resource**

Reading and critiquing academic sources

Discover strategies for managing your sources and maintaining an independent, critical approach to the existing scholarship in your field to enhance your work.

Approaching sources critically

Mapping the literature

Create a visual overview of the research in your field with this template designed to help you construct a bird鈥檚 eye 鈥榤ap鈥� of existing scholarship.

Reading and note-taking

Establishing a critical approach to understanding and applying scholarship within your field begins with your reading and what you draw from your sources. Discover strategies for effective reading and note-taking throughout the process of writing your thesis or dissertation and while conducting research.

Note-taking strategies

Learn more about effective strategies to help you manage the demands of research and reading at postgraduate level.

Reading strategies

There鈥檚 more than one way to read! Make your reading really work for you with these slides on reading strategies to help make academic reading more manageable and more productive

Managing proposals, dissertations and theses

The dissertation or thesis is usually the cornerstone of a postgraduate course. This section contains resources designed not only to help you get started, but to help you keep going throughout the longer-term challenges of writing up a substantial research project.

Proposal Planner

A tool to help you develop proposals for dissertations, research projects, conference papers, funding opportunities and more.

Keeping yourself motivated

Procrastination quiz

Procrastination can seriously hamper your research process. Find out why you鈥檙e procrastinating and what type of procrastinator you are. **Online Quiz**

Dealing with procrastination

Discover further guidance to help you keep things in perspective and focus on completion rather than perfection. **Webpage**

One Hour Writing Challenge

If you鈥檙e feeling stuck or not sure how to get started with a particular section, set yourself up for an hour of focused and productive writing. **Online Resource**

Further support

The Liaison and Academic Skills Teams offer one-to-one tutorials and group sessions to help you with any aspect of academic writing and research, up to and including PhD level.

Book a one-to-one

Request a 50-minute tutorial with the Academic Skills Team for bespoke support around academic and study skills challenges

Your Skills Programme

Sign up for our open programme of group sessions covering aspects of academic writing and research to support you as you study.