Library Workshops and Events

Library and Cultural Services offer workshops and events throughout the year to support Essex students and researchers. Workshops and events take place across all three campuses, in-person as well as online, so there’s something for everyone! On this page you will find more information about the sessions we offer, as well as links to other training and support provided by Skills for Success and IT Services .

View our ‘Upcoming Events’ below or keep reading to learn more!

Workshops

Our workshops cover a broad range of academic skills and have been designed to help you achieve better assignment and degree outcomes. These include Research Support events, and our open Workshops at Library sessions that are offered as part of the Academic Skills programme available to current Essex students via CareerHub.

Events

Apart from workshops and skills training, we also run engagement events for the Library Advisory Group and other community groups at Essex. The Arts Team within Library and Cultural Services plan regular events that can be found via the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America and Lakeside Theatre websites.

Upcoming Events

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ESCALA Exhibition: Perrahabl@ (1999), by La Perrera (Natalia Iguiñiz and Sandro Venturo) In-Person

On a cold morning of early August 1999, the city of Lima in Peru woke to find its streets covered by a new provocative poster. Unlike many others, this poster did not promote a music concert or a...  More
From:
12:00, Monday 12 January 2026
To:
18:00, Wednesday 25 February 2026
Location:
First Floor Landing, Albert Sloman Library, Colchester
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Undergraduate     Postgraduate - Taught     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
ESCALA Exhibition: Perrahabl@ (1999), by La Perrera (Natalia Iguiñiz and Sandro Venturo)

Get organised for study & research (Online) Online

★★☆ intermediate Overview: This 1 hour workshop covers how to organise information for your course and research. In this session, you will learn how to create a search strategy to keep you...  More
Date:
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 46 seats left
Get organised for study & research (Online)

Get organised for study & research (In person) In-Person

★★☆ intermediate Overview: This 1 hour workshop covers how to organise information for your course and research. In this session, you will learn how to create a search strategy to keep you...  More
Date:
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Library Learning Room, Colchester
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 15 seats left
Get organised for study & research (In person)

University Art Collection spotlight: Alfred Wallis In-Person

The University of Essex Art Collection has been part of campus life since the 1960s. It’s full of modern and contemporary British art, with works displayed across the University so that everyone - s...  More
Date:
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Special Collections, Colchester
Categories:
  General Event     Art Collections > University Art Collections     Special Collections  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 15 seats left
University Art Collection spotlight: Alfred Wallis

Advanced search skills (Online) Online

★★☆ intermediate Overview This 1 hour workshop covers different methods for combining the keywords identified in your search strategy and gives a practical introduction to advanced techniques...  More
Date:
Tuesday 27 January 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Advanced search skills (Online)

Advanced search skills (Online) Online

★★☆ intermediate Overview This 1 hour workshop covers different methods for combining the keywords identified in your search strategy and gives a practical introduction to advanced techniques...  More
Date:
Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Advanced search skills (Online)

Accessing digital readings & sources (Online) Online

★★☆ intermediate Overview Sometimes there are barriers to accessing information. You might be asked to pay to read the full text of an article, or find a particular online reading platform...  More
Date:
Tuesday 3 February 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Accessing digital readings & sources (Online)

Accessing digital readings & sources (In person) In-Person

★★☆ intermediate Overview Sometimes there are barriers to accessing information. You might be asked to pay to read the full text of an article, or find a particular online reading platform...  More
Date:
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Library Learning Room, Colchester
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 15 seats left
Accessing digital readings & sources (In person)

Checking source quality & verifying information (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview This 1 hour workshop covers fact checking and evaluating skills that will help you avoid unreliable sources and build your views and arguments on solid evidence. Being able to...  More
Date:
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Checking source quality & verifying information (Online)

Checking source quality & verifying information (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview This 1 hour workshop covers fact checking and evaluating skills that will help you avoid unreliable sources and build your views and arguments on solid evidence. Being able to...  More
Date:
Wednesday 11 February 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 50 seats left
Checking source quality & verifying information (Online)

ESCALA Tour In-Person

The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA) is the museum of the University of Essex, serving as a vital teaching and research resource for students and staff, and a hub for the global...  More
Date:
Wednesday 18 February 2026 Show more dates
Time:
14:00 - 14:50
Location:
CB.21, ESCALA Teaching and Research Space, Colchester
Categories:
  Art Collections > Essex Collection of Art from Latin America     Wellbeing  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 14 seats left
ESCALA Tour

Intro to referencing (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview Come along to learn what academic integrity means in a UK Higher Education context and how to use information and artificial intelligence ethically to avoid plagiarism and...  More
Date:
Tuesday 24 February 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 50 seats left
Intro to referencing (Online)

Intro to referencing (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview Come along to learn what academic integrity means in a UK Higher Education context and how to use information and artificial intelligence ethically to avoid plagiarism and...  More
Date:
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 50 seats left
Intro to referencing (Online)

What is the public value of openly accessible research? Open Research Week 2026 Opening Keynote Online

Nearly twenty-five years after the Budapest Open Access Initiative laid the foundation for greater openness to the scholarly record, we still know little about how the public actually uses this...  More
Date:
Monday 2 March 2026
Time:
14:00 - 16:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 91 seats left
What is the public value of openly accessible research? Open Research Week 2026 Opening Keynote

Many researchers use code, how many share? TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing Online

Dr Joel Pick (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook (University of East Anglia) are two of the co-authors of TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing. All the authors of this...  More
Date:
Tuesday 3 March 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 151 seats left
Many researchers use code, how many share? TADA is a wizard way to enable you to improve code sharing

Using referencing tools (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview Referencing properly is something that causes students a lot of stress – but it doesn’t need to be difficult. This session will introduce you to different referencing tools and...  More
Date:
Tuesday 3 March 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 48 seats left
Using referencing tools (Online)

Bitesize Replication Games Online

Join us for Bitesize Replication Games, a hands-on online workshop where researchers test their skills by attempting to reproduce a key result from a published paper. In a supportive, interactive...  More
Date:
Tuesday 3 March 2026
Time:
14:30 - 16:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Bitesize Replication Games

Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative Online

Only Good Antibodies is an open science partnership between science stakeholders at institutions, commercial manufacturers, research funders, publishers, and reagent databases. This diverse...  More
Date:
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 172 seats left
Only Good Antibodies; different players coming together in an open initiative

Using referencing tools (In person) In-Person

★★★ advanced Overview Referencing properly is something that causes students a lot of stress – but it doesn’t need to be difficult. This session will introduce you to different referencing tools and...  More
Date:
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Library Learning Room, Colchester
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
In-Person Registration
Register! - 15 seats left
Using referencing tools (In person)

Making archives and special collections open Online

Join us for a look into how digitisation is transforming access to unique and often hidden collections. This session will highlight two projects to explore the tools, challenges, and ethical questions...  More
Date:
Thursday 5 March 2026
Time:
11:00 - 12:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 110 seats left
Making archives and special collections open

It makes sense to be open: experiences from researchers in two very different disciplines Online

In this session, we'll hear the first hand experiences of two researchers from very different disciplines. While Dr. Sarah Fox is an Historian and Oenone Scott is a Life Scientist, both of these...  More
Date:
Thursday 5 March 2026
Time:
13:00 - 14:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 128 seats left
It makes sense to be open: experiences from researchers in two very different disciplines

Why 'open' matters: the importance of global knowledge Online

Two talks focusing on two different organisations that are helping to make global access to knowledge more open and equitable. Nick Sheppard and Professor Chrissi Nerantzi from The Knowledge Equity...  More
Date:
Thursday 5 March 2026
Time:
15:00 - 16:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 130 seats left
Why 'open' matters: the importance of global knowledge

Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too. Online

Presenter: Dr Kathleen Gregory from Leiden University. As a social science researcher working in scholarly and science communication, Kathleen’s research focuses on scholarly communication practices...  More
Date:
Friday 6 March 2026
Time:
10:00 - 11:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 99 seats left
Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too.

Open Research Week: Friday Fika Online

A relaxed session hosted by the Open Research Week team. We look back on the week, pick out some interesting questions that our presenters didn’t get to, and discuss how to translate this week’s...  More
Date:
Friday 6 March 2026
Time:
14:00 - 15:00
Location:
Online
Audience:
  Academic Staff     Postgraduate - Research     Public  
Categories:
  Open Research Week  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 176 seats left
Open Research Week: Friday Fika

Making information inclusive (Online) Online

★★★ advanced Overview We all have a part to play when it comes to shaping the information landscape. The way we share content, reference sources, and engage with information impacts on how far it tr...  More
Date:
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Time:
10:30 - 11:30
Location:
Online
Categories:
  SfR     Workshop  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 49 seats left
Making information inclusive (Online)

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