University staff

Teaching & Collections

CLR can help staff with integrating skills development, research, information literacy and archives practices into the curriculum. Support can include:

• Helping to develop resources for taught sessions or as online resources in Canvas
• Acting as consultants and course designers for relevant areas of the curriculum
• Helping to integrate resources and collections into the development of new modules and programmes 
• Supporting your delivery of CLR related content through providing and contextualising session plans, online content, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and handouts
• Providing direct teaching in the curriculum where appropriate, specifically where it helps to have an expert from our team support a lecture or other session
• Helping you develop new skills so you can pass these on to your students
• Training on the reading list software, Keylinks
• Providing opportunities to incorporate archival research and exhibition projects into courses
• Supporting the provision of Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) in your academic modules

Research

CLR provides services for staff undertaking or managing research. Areas of expertise include:

• Expert literature searching and systematic review
• Identification of archival collections available for research use
• Bibliographic management (EndNote & RefWorks)
• Specialist analysis software (NVivo to expert level & introductory use of IMB SPSS Statistics)
• Microsoft Office for research purposes
• Survey Design and JISC OnlineSurveys
• Palaeographical skills
• Copyright and Data Protection issues surrounding the use of archives in research
• Best practice in Research Data Management
• Open Access publishing options and compliance with funder/publisher criteria
• Sourcing and interpreting bibliometric data

University staff are welcome to attend any of our postgraduate workshops or webinars and access our online guides.