Economics: Study Skills

Study skills encompasses the academic and professional skills which enable you to succeed at university.

Study skills includes reading, note-taking, critical thinking, planning, writing, referencing, presentation, revision and examination skills. For economics students, they might also include mathematics and statistics.

This guide highlights a range of study skills courses, events and books available to economics students on transition to university, for assessments and examinations, and for dissertations and theses.

Library Online Courses

The library has a range of self-study courses to support study skills from library inductions for new students, literature searching, academic writing, plagiarism and referencing, to mindfulness and meditation.

Get Started:
Library Induction

Finding Information:
Research for Assignments

Understanding Information:
In Academia and Beyond

Introduction to
Academic Writing

Presenting and Visualising Information

Mindful Library:
Mindfulness for Students

New for 2024/25, LinkedIn Learning is now available to all university students and staff. 

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform of 20,000+ personal development courses including business and management, information technology and creative skills, keeping you up-to-date in the classroom and workplace. Choose courses on a range of topics including:

• Organisation skills, time-management, note-taking, touch-typing, presentation skills
• English language: spelling, punctuation and grammar, writing for business
• Mathematics and computing: basic maths, statistics, maths for computing
• Microsoft Office training: Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PowerBi, CoPilot
• Computer coding: C#, Java, Python, R, Stata, SPS, SQL
• Technology: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cyber security, data analysis
• Management and leadership: agile working, change management, project management

Find out more about LinkedIn Learning from the university's Information and Digital Group including how LinkedIn Learning can recommend courses to make your personalised professional development programme.

Information Skills
for Economists

Information Skills for Economists is an online library course for new economics students. It develops information skills to find, select, access and reference appropriate academic sources.

With sections on: academic information, finding books and journals, planning a search, searching databases, evaluating information, information ethics, avoiding plagiarism, referencing and economic data.

The end-of-course assessment counts towards the Department of Economics' Professional Development Module (PDM).