With access to tutors who are world-leading, ground-breaking researchers you will learn from some of the best in their field using the latest in best-practice. Our small class sizes mean we get to know you as an individual, closely supporting your personal and professional development from day one.
Research Skills
At the University, we are keen to help students develop information seeking and information management skills.
Information seeking skills are about being confident in searching for, identifying, collating and evaluating information from a wide variety of sources using different techniques, systems and resources.
Information management skills are about having a good understanding of the importance of research impact and dissemination, as well as being familiar with the legal, ethical and security issues surrounding scholarly outputs, open access and research data management.
For more information, please visit the page for our Research Office.
Postgraduate Researchers
Our Library and Academic Advisers can offer support to postgraduate researchers at all study levels via online self-development resources, such as the Preparing for Research Information Seeking and Management (PRISM) tool. We also provide individual appointments and group workshops covering such topics as:
- Choosing relevant sources
- Search strategies and advanced searching techniques
- Cited reference searching
- Current awareness services
- Using reference management software
- Understanding open access publishing and depositing scholarly outputs in Insight
The library also manages and provides access to a variety of resources and services that are of specific interest to researchers.
For more information, please visit our Student Recruitment page.
Insight
Insight is the University of Cumbria’s open access digital repository which provides a display of the University’s research activity to the outside world.
