2. Why is it important?
Why research skills? Transition – especially for languages Attainment Wellbeing
Skills gap – transition from school
to university
Student experience and wellbeing

3. Why is it important?
Why embedded? Relevance Engagement Attendance Love “Student as Researcher” project
Skills gap – transition from school
to university
Student experience and wellbeing

4. The student research skills journey
First Year
School-wide skills programme
Language-specific research training
Honours level
Module-specific training
Dissertation module
Year Abroad
Postgraduate
Research Skills MA module
Steven Johnson, Treasure map with X storage auction gold, Public Domain

5. School-wide skills provision
Harmonising practice
Changing demographic
Standardising training to cover:
Understanding sources
Understanding questions
Referencing:
‘Real life’ applications…

6. School-wide skills provision
Understanding sources

7. School-wide skills provision
Referencing

8. ‘Real life’ applications
New Skills
Transferrable Skills
Professional Skills
Interpretation
Evaluation
Organization
Working methods
Contextualization
Research
House Style
TPSDave, Office, Pixabay, Public Domain

9. School-wide skills provision
Library Sessions
Understanding your reading list
Understanding academic sources
Interactive lectures
Group discussions
Voting
Matching / ordering activities
Jirka Matousek, Students in Lecture Hall, Flickr.com, CC BY

10. First years – French Where do you look….
Navigating academic information
Responseware
Creating collaborative bibliographies
Large session, Made interactive with use of response-ware, this time on students’ phones

11. First years - German
Session in core first year module on Library Research Skills GE108 : Changing Face of Germany in Film and Text

12. First years - Hispanic
Choosing search terms Searching Selecting and evaluating Creating collaborative bibliographies

13. First years - Italian
Poster presentations
Research
Presentation

14. Honours level Hispanic Using images in a WIKI French – online recap
Individual module interventions
Hispanic
Using images legally

15. Honours level French Online video tutorial
Individual module interventions
e.g.
Disability and Madness
Science Fiction
Literatures of the Great war
In the Family Way

16. In the Family Way module
Task-based learning
Prioritisation of information
“Student as researcher”
Modules
URSS Scheme
Reinvention Journal

17. Student as researcher project:

18. Year Abroad: embedding good research habits
“Student as researcher” Students as research experts Automony Formulating good questions Scrutinising sources

19. A student view
“The first thing I would have to say is problem solving. Carrying out research requires you to use analytical skills in a different way as it requires you to fill in the missing pieces in records and call into the question the reasons for these absences. Likewise, the process of ‘trial and error’ - if at first you don’t succeed, then try and try again! This is very true, especially when working with new software, e.g. archival databases, once you think you the record doesn’t exist, you then discover that in fact it is located somewhere else! Finally, independence. Of course at university you are also an independent learner but you equally have all your peers around you studying the same thing. However, research is rather an individual activity which necessitates confidence and belief in one’s abilities! ”

20. Dissertation level
Systematic Advanced searching Managing your sources Keeping track
Postcards and magnifying glass, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

21. Postgraduate level
As above, plus: Reference management Keeping up to date Broadening your focus
Research definition, CC BY-SA 3.0 Nick Youngson

22. Gaps and challenges
Not all students get the same Capacity Academic engagement
Pixabay, Public Domain

23. References
John Biggs and Catherine Tang, Teaching for Quality Learning at University (Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University: Buckingham, 2011).

24. Questions How do we help students / researchers acquire the skills of:
Prioritising information?
Sifting/sorting and evaluating?
Using the internet well? (When it is a problem? When an asset?)