Academic Programme Support 

The library can work with you to ensure students have seamless access to high-quality scholarly resources and to help them develop the information and research skills they need to succeed.

Information skills develop students’ ability to critically evaluate the quality, authority, and relevance of information. Research skills develop students’ capacity to find, critically appraise, and build on existing scholarship. The library's information and research skills provision is aligned with UL’s Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy, and with frameworks including the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp), the European Competence Framework for Researchers (ResearchComp), the Transferable Skills Framework, and reflects UL’s Graduate Attributes.

We can work with you to: 

·         Integrate high-quality digital and scholarly resources into your modules and programmes.

·         Integrate information and research skills into your curriculum to ensure they’re developed as an integral part of the student learning experience.

·         Design teaching and assessment approaches that develop students’ information, research skills, and support a more process-focused approach to assessment.

·         Support the adoption of open educational resources (OERs) in your programme and modules.

·         Provide evidence and guidance for quality reviews and accreditation processes. 

Integrating information and research skills in academic programmes:

·         Helps students develop skills that are contextualised, scaffolded, and demonstrably transferable.

·         Contributes to academic integrity.

·         Enhances students’ critical thinking and evaluation skills, and their readiness for postgraduate study and research.

·         Supports a transition to more process-focused assessment.

The categories of skills and capabilities we help students to develop include:

·         Writing Research Questions (Levels 7 to 9)

·         Preparing Search Strategies (Levels 7 to 9)

·         Running Searches in the Library Catalogue and Academic Databases (Levels 7 to 9)

·         Critically Evaluating Information (Levels 7 to 9)

·         Academic Citing and Referencing (levels 7 to 10)

·         Managing Information (including research materials, notes, and data management processes, using EndNote) (Levels 7 to 10)

·         Creativity and Digital Skills (Levels 7 to 10)

·         Publishing and Research Impact (Level 10)

·         Research Data Management (Level 10)

·         Systematic Literature Searching for Evidence Synthesis (Level 10)

Contact us to learn more about how we can support your academic programme or module.