Researching a topic for education 2025

Welcome to researching a topic for education.

This guide is here to help you find resources as part of a research process and includes a mixture of activities, videos and text. You can work through the material systematically, or skim through, picking out what seems useful to you in the moment.   

If you are doing an assignment for which materials from other disciplines might be relevant, you may find it useful to look at other subject guides as well, like:

Use the menus to go to that section of the guide.

Each section includes a Take a break activity to encourage you to build in breaks to your study time.

There is a range of ways that you can get support from the library:

Library Chat

• Live text chat with library staff.
• Available 24/7 for support with literature searching, referencing, and any issues or questions related to using the library.

Bookable appointments with librarians

• You can book a 30 minute one-to-one with a librarian to discuss literature searching or referencing.
• Remember to include plenty of information about what you would like support with when making your booking.

The Hallam Library: Skills Centre . 

The Hallam Library: Skills Centre is a team within the library offering academic skills development on topics such as assignment planning, critical writing, presentation skills, research planning, and time management. They offer:

At the end of each page, you will find a Take a break box.

The Take a break - boxes are here to make your sure you build in breaks to your study time and feature resources to take a look at or explore linked to wellbeing or relaxation.