This 5 credit module for PhD and MRes students in CACSSS or Business & Law takes place on the 7th - 9th November 2022.

Please do not register if you are based in Science, Engineering and Food Science or in the College of Medicine and Health. The module will run again for these Colleges in Semester 2 - registration for this will be available in the near future.

The aims of the module are to give postgraduate students an introduction to the principles and practice of Information Literacy, as applied to postgraduate research; and to enable postgraduate students to audit, update and develop their Information Literacy skills, which will enhance the quality of their research and expand their career opportunities in our knowledge-based economy.

The module will be delivered in-person across all three days, with two sessions per day. All sessions will take place in the Boole Library's Research Skills Teaching Room. The timetable for the six sessions will be available through Canvas before the module begins.

Students will need to attend all of the six sessions in order to pass the module.

The sessions will take place at the following times:

Monday 7th November - 10:30am-1pm & 2pm-4.30pm
Tuesday 8th November - 10:30am-1pm & 2pm-4.30pm
Wednesday 9th November - 10:30am-1pm & 2pm-4.30pm 

The assignment will take the form of a short report (1500 words), which will be marked on a pass/fail basis and due by Wednesday 7th December 2022.