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Most students spend years studying without ever being taught how learning actually works, operating instead of a mixture of habit, guessing and ‘whatever has worked so far’ - but knowing why learning works as it does allows you to go beyond what has worked before and enables you to start being deliberate about approach to learning.

Join our Writing Retreat, designed for postgraduate researchers and staff who want to dedicate focused time to their writing. This two-hour session offers a structured and supportive environment to help you make progress on your thesis, article, or research project—away from everyday distractions.

“Be more critical”. Perhaps the most common piece of feedback, but one of the least well explained. It’s the most important skill you can develop, as it's often seen as a marker of intelligence, credibility and trustworthiness, both in academic work and far beyond it.

Have you ever sat in a lecture and tried to write down everything the lecturer says? Took notes from textbook by copying out paragraphs? There are quicker and better ways.

Most of us spend our lives navigating information produced by other people’s decisions. While we rarely see how those decisions were made, they shape what, remains hidden, and what becomes visible and positioned as knowledge.

People don’t change their minds because they are presented with facts alone. The most compelling arguments are those that enable others to see why adopting a particular perspective is in their interest, whether that means gaining benefits, avoiding costs, or solving important problems.

Discover the range of library resources, research tools, and expert guidance available to support you throughout your research journey.

Principles of open research and its role in collaboration and impact.

A beautifully written, well-argued and thoughtful piece of work quickly becomes an average piece if it uses sources that are unreliable, irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriate.

Structure, style, and formatting guidance for theses and research reports.

Find out all about the great reference management tools available for researchers at Keele.

Universities produce knowledge, but they are not the only organisations trying to understand the world. Governments, businesses, charities, and think tanks all produce research that also shapes policy, professional practice, and public debate.

A common problem of academic writing is having too much to say - but adding every idea, every bit of evidence, and too much nuance often weakens an essay, as it threatens the piece’s coherence. And coherence matters more than coverage in academic writing.

Every citation tells a story about who is trusted, whose ideas are valued, and how knowledge develops over time. Join the Library Education Centre team for a seminar on scholarship, authority, and attribution.

“Be more critical”. Perhaps the most common piece of feedback, but one of the least well explained. It’s the most important skill you can develop, as it's often seen as a marker of intelligence, credibility and trustworthiness, both in academic work and far beyond it.

Join our Writing Retreat, designed for postgraduate researchers and staff who want to dedicate focused time to their writing. This two-hour session offers a structured and supportive environment to help you make progress on your thesis, article, or research project—away from everyday distractions.

Have you ever sat in a lecture and tried to write down everything the lecturer says? Took notes from textbook by copying out paragraphs? There are quicker and better ways.

Most of us spend our lives navigating information produced by other people’s decisions. While we rarely see how those decisions were made, they shape what, remains hidden, and what becomes visible and positioned as knowledge.

A beautifully written, well-argued and thoughtful piece of work quickly becomes an average piece if it uses sources that are unreliable, irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriate.

Find out how to create an effective search strategy, apply it to one of your Library's multidisciplinary databases and identify relevant articles for a research question.

People don’t change their minds because they are presented with facts alone. The most compelling arguments are those that enable others to see why adopting a particular perspective is in their interest, whether that means gaining benefits, avoiding costs, or solving important problems.

Universities produce knowledge, but they are not the only organisations trying to understand the world. Governments, businesses, charities, and think tanks all produce research that also shapes policy, professional practice, and public debate.

Explore evaluation frameworks (CRAAP, SIFT and RADAR) and use them to help you evaluate information sources including some that may have been AI-generated.

A common problem of academic writing is having too much to say - but adding every idea, every bit of evidence, and too much nuance often weakens an essay, as it threatens the piece’s coherence. And coherence matters more than coverage in academic writing.

Understand responsible use of AI tools in research, focusing on bias, transparency, and integrity. 

Most students spend years studying without ever being taught how learning actually works, operating instead of a mixture of habit, guessing and ‘whatever has worked so far’ - but knowing why learning works as it does allows you to go beyond what has worked before and enables you to start being deliberate about approach to learning.

A beautifully written, well-argued and thoughtful piece of work quickly becomes an average piece if it uses sources that are unreliable, irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriate.

Even though technology is absolutely everywhere (take a second to count all the devices you can see around you) quietly shaping our lives and behaviours, we rarely think about it

Join our Writing Retreat, designed for postgraduate researchers and staff who want to dedicate focused time to their writing. This two-hour session offers a structured and supportive environment to help you make progress on your thesis, article, or research project—away from everyday distractions.

Discover the different types of literature reports (systematic, scoping, narrative, etc.) there are and tips on how to complete them.

Leadership is something that belongs to people with authority. The ability to influence decisions, shape group culture, and work effectively with others is relevant to everyone. Understanding how different people think, behave, and make decisions in groups enables us to navigate complex situations more effectively and to make better choices when working with others.

Universities produce knowledge, but they are not the only organisations trying to understand the world. Governments, businesses, charities, and think tanks all produce research that also shapes policy, professional practice, and public debate.

Pressures in academic publishing leads to bad science being published. Bad science being published leads to people making bad decisions. Knowing some of the signs of bad science enables you to spot, avoid, and critique science that looks reliable, but in reality, is flawed.

Every citation tells a story about who is trusted, whose ideas are valued, and how knowledge develops over time. Join the Library Education Centre team for a seminar on scholarship, authority, and attribution.