Kick Start Your Dissertation

Heriot Watt University Student Wellbeing Services

Kick-Start Your Dissertation is a week-long programme including workshops, seminars, and events to get your dissertation kick-started!

Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus

Register for this programme, and sign up to academic skills sessions and activities! Follow the links under each session to sign up. (﻿Please note: This programme is aimed at Heriot-Watt University Postgraduate Students only.)

22 May

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030905

Academic Writing: Cracking the Code

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030117

Harvard Citing and Referencing

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030540

IEEE Citing and Referencing (not relevant to SoSS students)

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030912

How to use EndNote 20 to manage your references (demonstrated on Windows)

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4031831

Word: Heading Styles, Numbering & TOCs

Ping Pong & Pizza

23 May

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030909

Thinking Critically about Data and Evidence

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030114

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030535

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030906

Writing a Literature Review

24 May

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030783

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030115

Literature Searching for EGIS subjects

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030537

Literature Searching for EPS subjects

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030904

Literature Searching for MACS

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030789

Literature Searching for SoSS Subjects

Word: Page Layouts & Numbering

PGT Pool & Darts

25 May

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030786

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030787

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030908

Managing your time and getting started

26 May

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030910

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030534

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4030790

Writing Dissertation Questions

Sign up: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/event/4031833

Word: Links, Footnotes & Captions

Picnic on the Lawn

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