With access to tutors who are world-leading, ground-breaking researchers you will learn from some of the best in their field using the latest in best-practice. Our small class sizes mean we get to know you as an individual, closely supporting your personal and professional development from day one.
Research Skills
At the University, we are keen to help students develop information seeking and information management skills.
Information seeking skills are about being confident in searching for, identifying, collating and evaluating information from a wide variety of sources using different techniques, systems and resources.
Information management skills are about having a good understanding of the importance of research impact and dissemination, as well as being familiar with the legal, ethical and security issues surrounding scholarly outputs, open access and research data management.
For more information, please visit the page for our Research Office.
Postgraduate Researchers
Library Services is here to support you at every stage of your research journey. Through our wide range of services, systems, resources, and training, we can help you reach your research goals with confidence.
We offer guidance and expertise across many parts of the research life cycle, including:
- Identifying and choosing the most relevant sources
- Developing effective search strategies and using advanced search techniques
- Conducting cited reference searches
- Using reference management tools
- Understanding open access publishing
- Depositing your work in the University’s Research Repository
- Managing your research data
- Navigating copyright
- Selecting suitable journals for your research outputs
We also manage and provide access to a variety of specialised subscriptions, databases, resources, systems, and services designed specifically with researchers in mind.
University of Cumbria Research Repository
The University of Cumbria Research Repository is an open access digital repository which provides access to the University’s research activity to the outside world.
