'Literature Searching Series: Part 2 of 3' Webinar (June 2025)

Session description: 

How do you look for academic literature? This session will look at building an effective advanced search by identifying relevant keywords and synonyms, using Boolean operators, utilising search modifiers, and refining results to get relevant results. We’ll be digging though citations and learning how to iterate on past searches to explore the ways of conducting high quality, rigorous academic searches. 

Learning Objectives  

• Understand what literature searching entails at doctoral level 
• Build an advanced search helpful to your project 

Target audience: 

Postgraduate Research Students 

Session leads:  

This session will be led by Gwen Kent and Yvette Howley 

RDF category:  

A1 Knowledge base, A2 Cognitive abilities, A3 Creativity, B2 Self-management, C2 Research management 

Registration:  

If you wish to attend, please register and you will be sent a calendar invitation. The session will be recorded, so if you cannot attend but would like to receive a link to the session recording, please register as normal and write in the registration page comments that you won’t be attending the live event. 

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