Workshops

Explore a range of workshops and sessions aimed at helping you improve your academic, life and wellbeing skills. From creating a budget to HDR support, there is something for all ages and academic stages.

View all workshops

Compulsory orientation workshops

The below sessions are compulsory for international students at St Lucia and Herston. Getting started is highly recommended for new domestic students

'Getting Started' will help you make a smooth transition to campus life and includes essential information you need to get settled in and off to a good start. Gain practical information about: important dates, finding your way around campus, connecting to other UQ students, and support services available.
This workshop has tips on keeping safe while living in Australia - on, and off, campus. In this session you will find out about: Personal safety on campus Keeping safe at home, on the roads, and when you are out, Surviving Australian beaches, Animals to be aware of, Protecting yourself from scams, And more!

Skills for Study Suite: Increase your learning potential

The Skills for Study Suite of programs is offered at the beginning of each semester. Each program is designed to develop the skills beneficial for academic study, and to help build confidence for the semester ahead. Click on the links below to explore what is available and to register to attend.

UG JSAPP is a short program for commencing students. The one-day program covers a range of topics from academic expectations to study skills, essay writing, and time management strategies; everything you need to jumpstart your academic journey.
SFS: PG Coursework is a short program for students returning to academic study. The aim of the program is to introduce the expectations of post-graduate study and the skills that will contribute to academic success, including referencing, critical thinking, and writing techniques.
This a series of online workshops available to undergraduate and postgraduate students in HASS, BEL, HABS and MED faculties. This hands-on writing program builds on critical thinking, reading, and writing strategies introduced in O-Week workshops and in Skills for study: Postgraduate Coursework. It is also recommended for students in their second or later semesters.
The Skills for study: STEMM is a series of online workshops available to all postgraduate and undergraduate coursework students in Science, EAIT, HABS and MED. This program is suitable for both new and continuing students.
Join these weekly sessions to connect with other students who identify as living with ADHD and share ideas and experiences. The aim of these sessions is to develop the skills to manage academic studies and student life.
This program consists of four workshops delivered across the semester for students writing their Honours or Masters Thesis. You will gain a good understanding of the various steps involved in producing a research thesis of some length.

Study Skills Workshops

Study skills workshops are held at various times throughout the semester and are designed to help you develop your academic skills. If you are a new student, we recommend getting started with a workshop in Orientation week so that you can get off to a great start.

Upcoming workshops

  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 6 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 6 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Online - Avoiding plagiarism through effective paraphrasing and synthesising sources

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Remaining places: 397
    This workshop focusses on understanding how to use sources to build your argument/poition, understanding when, why and how to cite references in-text, and avoiding confusion and disruption to flow when citing multiple sources.
  • Online - Boost your study fitness

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Remaining places: 398
    Learn some strategies to build and sustain a study routine that will set you up for academic success
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 8 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 8 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Drop-in writing support: bring your draft

    Starts: 8 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 8 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Research consultation rm: 12A-L103
    These sessions are managed on a first-come first-served basis. Bookings are not required and you may need to wait while the learning adviser talks to other students.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 9 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 9 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Online - Studying Effectively for Exams

    Starts: 9 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 9 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Remaining places: 398
    Studying for exams doesn't start in Study Week - it starts in week 1 of semester. This workshop focuses on effective learning techniques and strategies to ensure that you are well prepared for exams.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 12 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 12 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 13 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 13 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 14 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 14 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 15 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 15 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Drop-in writing support: bring your draft

    Starts: 15 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 15 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Research consultation rm: 12A-L103
    These sessions are managed on a first-come first-served basis. Bookings are not required and you may need to wait while the learning adviser talks to other students.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 16 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 16 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Online - Generative AI: Ways to use it productively and ethically as a university student

    Starts: 16 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 16 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Remaining places: 379
    Learn ways you can ethically and productively work with AI tools as a student.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 19 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 19 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 20 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 20 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Online - Preparing for exams in quantitative courses

    Starts: 20 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 20 May 2025, 4:00 pm
    Remaining places: 397
    Learn some strategies which will help you optimise your performance on quantitative questions in courses such as mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering and other STEMM courses.
  • Online - Managing Exam Stress

    Starts: 21 May 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 21 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Remaining places: 399
    Strategies and approaches to dealing with stress associated with exams
  • Peer Writing Project: Bring Your Draft

    Starts: 21 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 21 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop A
    Bring your draft to a Student Writing Leader to help you improve the quality of your writing and address questions you might have.
  • Art & Psyche in Practice

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 33
    For those that have attended an Intro to Art & Psyche, this is the practice group. Art-based therapy is applied to Internal Family Systems (IFS) to practice connecting with personality parts in the internal system. Each practice will help you to become more attuned to what needs to be expressed as it arises. Using art to engage parts is a process that strengthens the connection to them and build trust in your system.
  • Relationships 101 Session 1

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 5:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 0
    Gain a deeper understanding into the experiences, ideas, values, beliefs that influence the quality of relationships you have.
  • Art for Wellbeing

    Starts: 8 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 8 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 34
    Art-based therapy uses a combination of art activities and verbal interaction to improve coping skills and promote well-being through the creative process.
  • Let's Talk About Loss

    Starts: 8 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 8 May 2025, 4:30 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 28
    A support group looking to acknowledge, understand, and honour your experience of loss while also adapting to a changed life. Experienced UQ counsellors will help create safety and connections to process the underlying emotions unique to what you're feeling using the dual process model of grief.
  • Art & Psyche in Practice

    Starts: 14 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 14 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 36
    For those that have attended an Intro to Art & Psyche, this is the practice group. Art-based therapy is applied to Internal Family Systems (IFS) to practice connecting with personality parts in the internal system. Each practice will help you to become more attuned to what needs to be expressed as it arises. Using art to engage parts is a process that strengthens the connection to them and build trust in your system.
  • Relationships 101 Session 2

    Starts: 14 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 14 May 2025, 5:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    With this 3 workshop series, you are invited to develop more relational awareness and insight into who you are, your strengths and what you need from the different types of relationships around you.
  • Art for Wellbeing

    Starts: 15 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 15 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 32
    Art-based therapy uses a combination of art activities and verbal interaction to improve coping skills and promote well-being through the creative process.
  • Let's Talk About Loss

    Starts: 15 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 15 May 2025, 4:30 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 33
    A support group looking to acknowledge, understand, and honour your experience of loss while also adapting to a changed life. Experienced UQ counsellors will help create safety and connections to process the underlying emotions unique to what you're feeling using the dual process model of grief.
  • Relationships 101 Session 3

    Starts: 21 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 21 May 2025, 5:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    With this 3 workshop series, you are invited to develop more relational awareness and insight into who you are, your strengths and what you need from the different types of relationships around you.
  • Let's Talk About Loss

    Starts: 22 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 22 May 2025, 4:30 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 33
    A support group looking to acknowledge, understand, and honour your experience of loss while also adapting to a changed life. Experienced UQ counsellors will help create safety and connections to process the underlying emotions unique to what you're feeling using the dual process model of grief.
  • Art & Psyche in Practice

    Starts: 28 May 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 28 May 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 36
    For those that have attended an Intro to Art & Psyche, this is the practice group. Art-based therapy is applied to Internal Family Systems (IFS) to practice connecting with personality parts in the internal system. Each practice will help you to become more attuned to what needs to be expressed as it arises. Using art to engage parts is a process that strengthens the connection to them and build trust in your system.
  • Art for Wellbeing

    Starts: 29 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 29 May 2025, 1:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Remaining places: 34
    Art-based therapy uses a combination of art activities and verbal interaction to improve coping skills and promote well-being through the creative process.
  • Relationships 101 Session 1

    Starts: 20 Aug 2025, 3:00 pm
    Finishes: 20 Aug 2025, 5:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Building 6, WorkShop B
    Gain a deeper understanding into the experiences, ideas, values, beliefs that influence the quality of relationships you have. With this 3 workshop series, you are invited to develop more relational awareness and insight into who you are, your strengths and what you need from the different types of relationships around you.

No new items.

No new items.

  • Resume Reviews

    Starts: 7 May 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 7 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Andrew Liveris Bld (46), Room 242/243
    Remaining places: 0
    Make your resume and application stand out!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 14 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 14 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 28
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 21 May 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 21 May 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 37
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 4 Jun 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 4 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 38
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 11 Jun 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 11 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 39
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 18 Jun 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 18 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 40
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!
  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 2 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 2 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Student Central Building 42
    Remaining places: 40
    Short on time but career focused? Drop by for quick chat or join us for an express workshop!

8 Unique Wellbeing programs