Academic skills
Boost your digital skills confidence
If you want to develop your digital skills or assess your current proficiency, this is the place to start.
Our easy-to-use Discovery Tool helps you to reflect on your digital skills and offers a bank of resources to level up your digital proficiency. You can focus on certain topics, such as skills for employability, online safety and advanced skills.
First years: there’s a dedicated section for you too!
Take your learning to the next level with Skills@Library. We help you to develop your academic skills in a way that suits your learning, including one-to-one sessions, workshops and online resources.
Online resources
Our comprehensive resources can help you with every part of your studies, guiding you through the academic year and supporting you with assessments.
Skills development at University
Whatever stage you’re at in your University journey, Skills@Library can help you to identify, develop and refine the academic skills you need.
First year
Get off to a Flying Start! Find out about the skills you need at university and how it differs from what you’ve done before.
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Second year
Step up to second year. Build on the skills you developed at first year and get to grips with the study techniques for second year success.
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Final year
Tackle your final year project or dissertation. Our comprehensive guide takes you through all the stages of your Final Chapter at university.
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Mature students
Enhance your skills by exploring strategies and tools tailored to the mature student experience.
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Postgraduate research
Thinking about applying to study for a postgraduate research degree? This resource aims to help you decide.
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Surfacing your skills
Surfacing Skills develops your key transferable skills to become more proficient, build confidence and prepare for the next step in your life journey.
Surfacing your Skills online learning units cover communication, collaboration, reflection, creativity, critical thinking and decision-making.
Student education glossary
A glossary of common university terms, processes and phrases that may be unfamiliar or unclear when starting to study at the University of Leeds.