Laurence Morris, Academic Skills Development Manager

Laurence Morris

Academic Skills Development Manager

Laurence Morris is the Academic Skills Development Manager in Leeds Beckett Library's Academic Support Team, as well as an Associate of Leeds Beckett Centre for Learning and Teaching.

Laurence is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an ILM-qualified coach. He has also previously worked as an Academic Librarian and for the Ministry of Defence.

Research Interests

Laurence’s primary professional interest dates from his time as an information professional, enabling students and colleagues to apply relevant skills and information more effectively in their learning, teaching and research. His recent work in academic skills development relates to the human aspects of this challenge.

Laurence Morris, Academic Skills Development Manager

Ask Me About

  1. Academic skills development
  2. Information literacy
  3. Learning development
  4. Writing

Selected Outputs

  • Turner KE; Morris L (2019) Peer-reviewed Library Teaching: Reflections, Background and Practicalities. In: LILAC: The Information Literacy Conference, University of Nottingham.

  • Morris L; Bower K (2018) Becoming essential to Information Literacy, or: “What does embedded even mean?”. In: Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), 4 April 2018 - 6 April 2018, University of Liverpool.

    https://www.lilacconference.com/lilac-2018

  • Morris L (2017) Search, refine, evaluate: Teaching students using only 3 words. In: Internet Librarian International: The Library Innovation Conference, 17 October 2017 - 18 October 2017, Olympia London.

  • Morris L; Wilson JL (2016) Developing digital literacy skills in professional and academic staff. In: CILIP Annual Conference 2016, 12 July 2016 - 13 July 2016, Brighton.

  • Morris L; Windle E (2015) Module resource lists: Using a puzzle to solve a puzzle. In: Northern Collaboration 2015 Conference: Being digital: opportunities for collaboration in academic libraries, 10 September 2015, Leeds, UK.

  • Morris L (2023) Developing transition and in-course support for international students [Online]. Leeds: Leeds Beckett.

  • Salminen M; Morris L (2024) The Limits of Everyday Digitalization in the Arctic: A Digital Security Perspective. In: Acadia S ed. Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham,