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21 Jan 2026
English Language Support Workshops - UCC Skills Centre X UCC Language Centre
English Language Support Workshops for International Students run by UCC Language Centre in collaboration with UCC Skills Centre Semester 2 2025/26. Workshops will take place every Wednesday from 3pm - 4.30pm in the UCC Skills Centre Classroom (UCC Boole Library Q-1) - follow the yellow steps down the stairs. Sign up now & see the full timetable of events here: https://linktr.ee/SkillsCentre
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08 Jan 2026
Dissertation & Lit Review Workshops
Calling all postgraduate students! Are you beginning or actively working on your dissertation or literature review? We've got the workshops for you. Join us a beginning from the week of 20th January 2026! These sessions are especially designed by our postgraduate tutors. Sessions include; 1. Mapping Out Your Dissertation2. Literature Reviews Sign up now!
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11 Mar 2025
Building a Network Around Learning: The Magic in Co-Studying
Are you stuck alone in the library until late night every day, wishing you could be spending quality time with your friends instead? The constant labour of studying, reading, writing, and revising in university can be really tiring and get repetitive quite fast. Especially during exams, you might find yourself isolated with your laptop and notes from morning till evening, hoping to get through the season as fast as possible so you can be social again. How about bringing the socialising into your study routine? Grinding is great from time to time and, yes, very productive, but isn’t productivity made better when you enjoy the process not just the outcome?
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04 Mar 2025
Staying Curious and Inspired: The Power of Commonplacing
How many times in university or else have you come across something thought-provoking, thinking – “I have to note this down or else I’ll forget it!” – or – “I need to remember to look this up later, I don’t have the time now.” – without actually following up on that little piece of knowledge you gleaned from your daily encounters? It happens every single day. We regularly neglect new ideas and minimise spontaneous learning in favour of efficiency and productivity in our professional, academic, even personal lives. Naturally, this is normal but having a tool to help you incorporate this kind of learning and novelty into your everyday life can have an amazing positive impact on your personal growth and help you bring intentionality into your days. This little habit is called commonplacing.
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