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Academic communication support for Life Sciences students

We offer tutorials, webinars, workshops, courses, retreats and resources to support you to develop your academic communication and research skills.

The UCL Academic Communication Centre (ACC) is for all students, to support you to communicate critically and confidently at university, and to help you understand what is expected of you in your assignments.Ìý

Enrol on theÌýÌýto find out all about our support, including:

  • WebinarsÌýcover key strategies, resources, and include an opportunity for Q&A on a range of topics related to academic reading, writing, and presentations.
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  • Writing retreatsÌýprovide a supportive, motivating environment to work on your own writing.
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  • Writing process workshopsÌýgive you strategies for writing and opportunities for practice.
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  • Reading and note-taking coursesÌýsupport you in becoming a more critical and effective academic reader.
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  • Grammar for academic writing coursesÌýare forÌýstudents with English as an additional languageÌýto improve your grammar knowledge and usage, and to help you write more clearly.
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  • Postgraduate academic writing coursesÌýenable you to communicate critically and confidently in your writing at Master’s level.
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  • Postgraduate dissertation/research project writing coursesÌýintroduce you to the key aspects of writing your dissertation/research project and support you with writing this longer piece of research at Master’s level.
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  • Oral communication workshopsÌýsupport you in developing your confidence and fluency in academic speaking.
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  • GenAI and the writing process workshopsÌýhelpÌýyou take a critical stance towards the use of GenAI tools, particularly for use in the writing process.
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  • One-to-one tutorialsÌýcan be used to work on, for example: the language and structure of your writing; to practice a presentation; to discuss learning strategies and the transition to postgraduate study; to help you in understanding the specific requirements and conventions of an assignment that you are working on.
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  • Asynchronous resourcesÌýare available on a dedicated Moodle to support you in key areas of academic communication.

"It was extremely beneficial in learning how to plan, sift through information, and write up the essay and I feel significantly more confident in writing the essay."
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First year Bioscience student

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"This has been one of the best courses I have taken, ever. It brought reading and writing to a new academic level and I would like to continue learning this, especially being in the sciences where there is not much focus on developing these skills in the curriculum. In order to become a clear communicator of the science we do and analyse, we need to hone these language skills!"

- PGT Faculty of Life Sciences studentÌý

"This has been one of the best courses I have taken, ever. It brought reading and writing to a new academic level and I would like to continue learning this, especially being in the sciences where there is not much focus on developing these skills in the curriculum. In order to become a clear communicator of the science we do and analyse, we need to hone these language skills!"
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PGT Faculty of Life Sciences studentÌý