MSkills

Key details: MSkills is a development programme specifically for Masters students. For more information please visit the MSkills webpage: MSkills

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Audience

  • PG taught

Programme information

 M-Skills is a development programme specifically for taught postgraduate students. For more information please visit the MSkills webpage: https://stleonardscollege.st-andrews.ac.uk/skills-and-training/masters-students-skills-and-training/mskills/

Academic

21 courses - these are all optional.

  • A language approach to unpacking exam questions
  • Effective Time Management
  • Expressing criticality in academic writing
  • Getting and staying organised for success
  • How to become a better procrastinator
  • Introduction to Endnote
  • Kick-start your Masters: PGT orientation event
  • Language for introductions and conclusions
  • Paraphrasing, summarising and synthesising
  • PGT Writing: Creating Effective Introductions and Conclusions
  • PGT Writing: Critical Thinking
  • PGT Writing: Editing and Proofreading for a Cohesive Text
  • PGT Writing: Engaging Sources and Constructing a Persuasive Argument
  • PGT Writing: The Fundamentals of Academic Writing
  • Posters and graphical abstracts: how to present your science visually
  • Reporting information from sources vs. author voice
  • Welcome event for taught postgraduates
  • Writing a lab report (Sciences)
    • Tuesday 11 February 2025
  • Writing a lab report (Social Sciences)
    • Wednesday 12 February 2025
  • Writing conference abstracts, proposals and bios
    • Tuesday 25 February 2025
    • Tuesday 25 February 2025
  • Writing for dissertation success!

Communication & engagement

15 courses - these are all optional.

  • Communication Skills - Understanding How to Listen Differently : Listening Barriers, Styles and What To Listen For 
  • Communication Skills - Understanding Human Behaviour Behind Communication: Negotiation, Teamwork and Leadership
  • Communication Skills - Understanding Human Behaviour Behind Communication: Negotiations and Challenging Conversations
  • Communication Skills - Understanding Human Behaviour Behind Communication: The Predictable
  • Communication Skills - Understanding Human Behaviour Behind Communication: The Unique
  • Communication Skills - Understanding The Importance of Timing and How To Influence: Using Hooks and Influential Language
  • Pecha Kucha Workshop
  • Posters and graphical abstracts: how to present your science visually
  • Presentation Skills
    • Thursday 20 February 2025
  • Speak up for success: Voice coaching for everyone
    • Thursday 27 February 2025
  • Success in Groupwork
    • Tuesday 18 February 2025
  • Teaching skills: Designing a tutorial
  • Teaching skills: Diversity and inclusion in teaching
  • Teaching skills: The mechanics of learning
  • Writing conference abstracts, proposals and bios
    • Tuesday 25 February 2025
    • Tuesday 25 February 2025

Confidence & leadership

15 courses - these are all optional.

  • Assertiveness skills
  • Confidence and Personal Impact
    • Thursday 13 February 2025
  • Effective Time Management
  • Gender and Confidence
  • Getting and staying organised for success
  • Influencing skills: How to handle challenging conversations to achieve your goals
  • Introduction to Working with Policymakers
    • Tuesday 11 March 2025
    • Tuesday 11 March 2025
  • Let's Discuss...Imposter Syndrome (Undergraduate & Postgraduate Taught)
  • PSC+ Organisational psychology - leadership academy
  • PSC+ Organisational Psychology - Managing Change
  • Resilience: Applications of the Beckhard Harris Change Equation
  • Resilience: Difference and resistance as drivers for innovation
  • Resilience: Introductory Session: Self Awareness 1
  • Resilience: Self Awareness 2
  • Resilience: Surfing the urge in creative conversations

Creative & entrepreneurial

10 courses - these are all optional.

  • Being enterprising
    • Tuesday 18 February 2025
  • Creative writing: Experimental fiction
  • Creative writing: Reimagining characters: Prose Poetry
  • Creative writing: Writing about place and the self
  • Creative writing: Writing about the self and others: Autofiction
  • Influencing skills: How to handle challenging conversations to achieve your goals
  • Introduction to Working with Policymakers
    • Tuesday 11 March 2025
    • Tuesday 11 March 2025
  • PSC - Make a movie on your mobile (basic)
  • PSC - Making ideas happen
  • PSC Applied - Creativity and action

Digital

6 courses - these are all optional.

Sustainability

1 course - these are all optional.

  • PSC+ Sustainability - what is sustainability: sustainability fundamentals

Programme organiser

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk