MSkills
Key details: MSkills is a development programme specifically for Masters students. For more information please visit the MSkills webpage:
Audience
- PG taught
Programme information
 M-Skills is a development programme specifically for taught postgraduate students. For more information please visit the MSkills webpage:Â
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)
- Writing a lab report (Social Sciences)
- Writing conference abstracts, proposals and bios
- Writing for dissertation success!
Communication and engagement
15 courses - these are all optional.
- Communication Skills - Understanding How to Listen Differently : Listening Barriers, Styles and What To Listen ForÂ
- 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
- Speak up for success: Voice coaching for everyone
- Success in Groupwork
- Teaching skills: Designing a tutorial
- Teaching skills: Diversity and inclusion in teaching
- Teaching skills: The mechanics of learning
- Writing conference abstracts, proposals and bios
Confidence and leadership
15 courses - these are all optional.
- Assertiveness skills
- Confidence and Personal Impact
- 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
- 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 and entrepreneurial
10 courses - these are all optional.
- Being enterprising
- 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
- PSC - Make a movie on your mobile (basic)
- PSC - Making ideas happen
- PSC Applied - Creativity and action
Digital
6 courses - these are all optional.
- AI in education: algorithmic decision making
- AI in education: conversation online and the impact agenda
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification briefing
- Microsoft Word: Producing a dissertation
- Tuesday 1 July 2025
- NVivo (day 1): Introducing the software and qualitative analysis
- NVivo (day 2): Advanced features and customising your approach
Sustainability
1 course - these are all optional.
- PSC+ Sustainability - what is sustainability: sustainability fundamentals
Programme organiser
IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk