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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.

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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 workshops
'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.
Safety in Australia
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.
Jumpstart for Undergraduates
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.
Skills for study: Postgraduate Coursework
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.
Skills for study: Writing (HASS, BEL, HABS, Med)
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.
Skills for study: STEMM (Sci, EAIT, Eng, Med)
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.
ADHD Coaching
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.
First Steps in Research: Honours/Masters Thesis Writing Support Program
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.
Ten steps to better assignments
Reading strategies for university
Referencing well and avoiding plagiarism
Studying effectively at University
Effective listening and note-taking skills
Managing your time and study at university

Upcoming workshops

  • PIP Success Reset: Rebuild your study habits

    Starts: 23 Jun 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 23 Jun 2025, 3:00 pm
    Join this session if you are interesting in developing good study habits.

  • Reflective Writing

    Starts: 24 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 24 Jun 2025, 1:15 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Steele Building 3-309
    Remaining places: 36
    Join this workshop to learn about the DIEP framework for writing reflective texts.

  • An introduction to essay writing for international students

    Starts: 25 Jun 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 25 Jun 2025, 11:30 am
    Remaining places: 80
    Join this workshop if you want to develop your understanding of essay writing in the Australian university context.

  • Time and study management for coursework students

    Starts: 25 Jun 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 25 Jun 2025, 1:15 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Steele Building (3), 03-309, Steele Building, Learning Theatre
    Remaining places: 36
    Join this workshop to learn about ways to effectively manage your time and balance your studies.

  • Online - Study strategies for a successful semester

    Starts: 27 Jun 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 27 Jun 2025, 11:00 am
    Remaining places: 392
    This workshop will provide you with some strategies for organising your time and studying effectively. It will highlight the objectives of academic study and how best to achieve those objectives.

  • PIP Success Reset: Rebuild your study habits

    Starts: 30 Jun 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 30 Jun 2025, 10:00 am
    Join this session if you are interesting in developing good study habits.

  • Online - Managing Your Time and Study at University

    Starts: 7 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Remaining places: 286
    This workshop aims to introduce you to way of managing your time across competing commitments.

  • Generative AI: Ways to use it productively and ethically as a university student

    Starts: 7 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 7 Jul 2025, 3:45 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Andrew Liveris Bld (46), Room 242/243
    Remaining places: 25
    Learn ways you can ethically and productively work with AI tools as a student.

  • PIP Success Reset: Rebuild your study habits

    Starts: 11 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 11 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Join this session if you are interesting in developing good study habits.

  • Online - Study strategies for a successful semester

    Starts: 14 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 14 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
    Remaining places: 397
    This workshop will provide you with some strategies for organising your time and studying effectively. It will highlight the objectives of academic study and how best to achieve those objectives.

  • Studying Effectively at University and Preparing for Exams

    Starts: 15 Jul 2025, 9:45 am
    Finishes: 15 Jul 2025, 11:30 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Richards Biulding (5), 05-213, Richards Building, Learning Theatre
    Remaining places: 24
    Join this workshop to learn techniques to study effectively and prepare for exams in a university context.

  • Online - Understanding the expectations of academic writing at university

    Starts: 21 Jul 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 21 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Remaining places: 400
    Join this workshop to discover the key features of academic writing, as well as some of the many styles of writing that you might be required to produce at university.

  • Online - Managing Your Time and Study at University

    Starts: 21 Jul 2025, 11:30 am
    Finishes: 21 Jul 2025, 12:30 pm
    Remaining places: 400
    This workshop aims to help you to manage life, work and university commitments. It provides information and practical strategies to help you budget time and prioritise tasks. It also focuses on techniques for maintaining focus and avoiding procrastination.

  • Online - Referencing Well and Avoiding Plagiarism

    Starts: 21 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 21 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Remaining places: 400
    Effective referencing techniques are an essential part of academic writing. Learning these techniques will help you manage your assignments and research tasks without plagiarising. In this workshop you will be introduced to the nature and causes of plagiarism and effective strategies to prevent it.

  • Online - Studying Effectively at University

    Starts: 22 Jul 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 22 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Remaining places: 400
    Learning at university requires particular skills. This workshop explores some effective ways to learn, recall and apply course content within the university context.

  • Online - Effective Listening and Note-taking Skills

    Starts: 22 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 22 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Remaining places: 400
    Make the most of your lectures and tutorials by learning more about effective listening strategies and the importance of using notes to enhance your learning and understanding of course content.

  • Ten Steps to a better assignment

    Starts: 23 Jul 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 23 Jul 2025, 10:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, To be confirmed
    Gain a better understanding of the assignment writing process, as well as strategies to conduct research and write assignments that are well focused and structured.

  • Referencing Well and Avoiding Plagiarism

    Starts: 23 Jul 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 23 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, To be confirmed
    Effective referencing techniques are an essential part of academic writing. Learning these techniques will help you manage your assignments and research tasks without plagiarising. In this workshop you will be introduced to the nature and causes of plagiarism and effective strategies to prevent it.

  • Reading Effectively at University

    Starts: 23 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 23 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, To be confirmed
    Explore a range of strategies to read for particular purposes at University. These purposes range from understanding complex texts and reading critically, to reading texts in order to answer assignment questions or conduct research.

  • Generative AI: Ways to use it productively and ethically as a university student

    Starts: 23 Jul 2025, 12:00 pm
    Finishes: 23 Jul 2025, 1:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, To be confirmed
    Learn how you can use generative AI tools to support your academic writing and learning in ways that will help make you more competent rather than more dependent, and hence a more desirable future employee.

  • 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
    Remaining places: 8
    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.

  • Mindfulness Inside and Out

    Starts: 28 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 28 Oct 2025, 2:30 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, 06-216 Workshop B
    Remaining places: 36
    Each session will be divided into 10 to 20 minute guided mindfulness practices by a UQ counsellor and meditator. These will be followed by open questions and discussion to support the development of your confidence in your personal practice.

  • Art and Psyche

    Starts: 29 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 29 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, 06-216 Workshop B
    Remaining places: 36
    The process will support you to disentangle issues where you might feel stuck, frustrated, or unhappy in a way that’s creative, safe, and confidential. Expression through art can help you gain new perspectives and to grow more understanding about yourself.

  • Art for Wellbeing

    Starts: 30 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 30 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, 06-216 Workshop B
    Remaining places: 36
    Art-based therapy uses a combination of art activities and verbal interaction to improve coping skills and promote well-being through the creative process.

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  • Recruitment Essentials Day S1 2025 (St Lucia - Winter Break)

    Starts: 26 Jun 2025, 9:00 am
    Finishes: 26 Jun 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, ModWest (11A), 11A-130, ModWest, Collaborative
    Remaining places: 0
    Recruitment Essentials Day is here to give you the skills you need to get started in applying for jobs!

  • 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: 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: 9 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 9 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!

  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 16 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 16 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!

  • My Career Adviser Information Session

    Starts: 22 Jul 2025, 10:00 am
    Finishes: 22 Jul 2025, 11:00 am
    Venue: St Lucia, Forgan Smith Building (1), 01-E107, Forgan Smith Building, Collaborative
    Remaining places: 47
    My Career Adviser (MCA) support session for newly enrolled students.

  • Master the Waves of your Career Path

    Starts: 24 Jul 2025, 1:00 pm
    Finishes: 24 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Prentice Building (42), 216
    Remaining places: 245
    A career resilience workshop

  • My Career Adviser Information Session

    Starts: 31 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm
    Finishes: 31 Jul 2025, 3:00 pm
    Venue: St Lucia, Physics Annexe (6), 06-216 Workshop B
    Remaining places: 30
    My Career Adviser (MCA) support session for newly enrolled students.

  • Cuppa & Careers (St Lucia Campus)

    Starts: 6 Aug 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 6 Aug 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: 20 Aug 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 20 Aug 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: 27 Aug 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 27 Aug 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: 3 Sep 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 3 Sep 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: 10 Sep 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 10 Sep 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: 17 Sep 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 17 Sep 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: 24 Sep 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 24 Sep 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: 1 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 1 Oct 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: 8 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 8 Oct 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: 15 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 15 Oct 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: 22 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 22 Oct 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: 29 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 29 Oct 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: 5 Nov 2025, 11:00 am
    Finishes: 5 Nov 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!

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