Week18 issue
Your studies
•Get your hands on Ebooks for free
After a 5 minute 'freeview' period, if you choose to continue reading an e-book, the Library will immediately purchase and provide full access to this title.
•Got your marks back? Here’s how to make the most of them
Getting exam or essays back can be really discouraging if you didn't do as well as you'd hoped. We talked to academics, support staff, and garduates about how to work better and improve grades.
•Keeping your PhD on track
Being a doctoral researcher is meant to be hard work, but sometimes things can seem harder than they should be. Getting bogged down in the lab, experiments not going to plan, feeling lost in a sea of papers or struggling with writers block - any one of these things can knock your confidence and make progress seem non-existent. However, there are some strategies that might help you keep your PhD on track.
University update
•The Fire and Rescue Services across England and Wales have announced another strike for 24 hours from 7am on Wednesday, 25 February to 7am on Thursday, 26 February
Firefighters are due to take industrial action, which means there will be greatly reduced fire cover across the country.
•The Tuesday Street Market is coming back to campus!
Following on from the success of last semester, the ever popular street food market returns to campus.
Get involved
•Things to love about the new Whitworth
If you haven't made it down to the newly re-opened Whitworth yet, here are some of the best bits as picked by people across the University and beyond, to help plan your visit!
•Reclaim the Night 2015
Reclaim the Night is back for 2015 and on Thursday 26 February, will light up the city of Manchester and say 'NO' to sexual violence against women, street harassment, rape culture and victim blaming.