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University of Chester: Academic Skills
Members of the University of Chester’s Academic Skills team chat all things maths and study skills. The team come together over a cup of tea to share their experiences in skills development. Listen in for hints and tips to help you on your academic journey.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Liz, Sharon, and Emma, discuss text mapping. They chat about what it is, what you need, and how it can be a useful strategy to help with your academic reading.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Maths and Statistics Advisers, Matt and Shirley, are joined by Ioannis Kanakis, Associate Professor in Chester Medical School. They discuss what is meta-analysis used for, what kind of data is needed to perform it, and offer tips on how to overcome some common issues that students have.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Senior Academic Skills Adviser and Project Developer, Anthony, is joined by University of Chester alumna, Lin Chou (Masters in Art Therapy). They discuss Lin's use of the Academic Skills Team during her studies, her experiences as an international student, and their recent co-authored paper, Bridging worlds: A study of academic skills, cultural exchange, and integration in UK higher education.
You can read Anthony and Lin's paper here: Bridging worlds: A study of academic skills, cultural exchange, and integration in UK higher education.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Anthony and Emma are joined by Dami Akosile, Lecturer in Human Geography, to chat about writing blog posts. We discuss the importance of planning your blog post's structure and content, finding the right tone, and share our tips for making your blog posts engaging.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In the final episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Liz, Anthony, Emma, and Stefan share their top tips for finishing a dissertation. They discuss breaking the final stages down into manageable chunks, things to look for in the final editing stages, and the importance of letting it go.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episode on Editing and Proofreading.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Stefan, and Nicola, and Maths and Statistics Adviser, Mikayla, chat about writing a dissertation. They share strategies to get writing, discuss the importance of criticality and how to ensure you're being critical throughout, and share their editing processes.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Lisa, Stefan, and Emma chat about introductions and conclusions. We discuss what makes a good introduction and conclusion, how they differ in assignments and bigger projects such as dissertations, and share our strategies for writing them.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Anthony and Stefan, discuss qualitative research methods. They provide an introduction to qualitative research, outline why they would choose to do it, and briefly discuss the different instruments which can be used.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Maths and Statistics Advisers, Mikayla, Shirley, and Matt, discuss quantitative research methods. They chat about the importance of planning your research, how visualising your data early on in your analysis will help you to spot patterns and potential issues, and how not finding patterns in the data might be more interesting than finding a pattern.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Stefan, and Sharon chat about assignment structure. We discuss the importance of planning, how to develop an argument, and share our strategies for structuring assignments.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episode on Approaching an Assignment.
University of Chester students please note: this episode was recorded before the university changed 'learning outcomes' to 'competencies' on assessment briefs so when we refer to learning outcomes we are referring to competencies.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Alice, Lisa, Stefan, and Emma share their top tips for literature reviews from reading and note-making, to planning and writing.
You might also find it useful to listen to our full-length episode on Literature Reviews.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Head of Academic Skills, Alice, and Academic Skills Advisers, Emma and Liz, are joined by Assistant Liaison Librarian, Sterling, to discuss reading and research. They chat about literature searching strategies, the importance of keeping good records and notes, and share their top tips for effective reading and research for dissertations.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episodes on: Evaluating a Journal Article and Reading Strategies: Dolphin, Shark, and Whale.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Anthony and Liz, discuss ethics in research. They chat about the importance of ethics in your research and how to ensure adherence to ethical standards in your studies.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Anthony, and Liz chat all things group work. We discuss the benefits of group work, the possible pitfalls and how to avoid them, and share our strategies for successful group work.
You might also find it useful to listen to our podcast episodes on Approaching an Assignment and Presentations.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Anthony and Sharon, discuss researcher position. They chat about the importance of researcher position, break down some of the key terms you'll come across, and go through ways you might identify your stance.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Adviser, Emma, and Maths and Statistics Adviser, Mikayla, are joined by Richard Bott, Programme Leader for MSc Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation, to chat about lab reports. We discuss the structure of a lab report, go through what's required in each section, and share some top tips.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma and Anthony, discuss research proposals. They chat about what a research proposal is and its purpose, go through the general structure (although do be sure to follow departmental guidance regarding this!) and share some top tips for writing a proposal.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episode on Literature Reviews.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss academic conduct: what it is, the foundations of good academic conduct, and strategies to maintain good academic conduct throughout your studies. This episode features Anthony and Emma.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episodes on Paraphrasing and APA 7 Referencing. If you're a University of Chester student, you can get more information on Chester Students' Union's webpage on Academic Conduct.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma and Lisa, and Maths and Statistics Adviser, Mikayla, discuss developing a research question. They chat about honing in on your topic, the importance of doing your research to help you identify your question, and figuring out the type of research you want to do.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Emma and Anthony are joined by Senior Lecturers, Ruth Roxburgh and Sue Grave, from Nursing and Healthcare Education to discuss time management for students on placement. We chat about strategies for managing your time and finding a work-life balance that can support you in your studies.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In the first episode of our Dissertation Suite, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Lisa, and Nicola, discuss Planning and Time Management for a Longer Project. They chat about the importance of setting mini-deadlines, factoring wiggle room into your overall schedule, understanding what’s expected of you, and taking time away from your project.
You might also find it useful to listen to our episode on Powering Through Procrastination.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss academic reading strategies with a focus on dolphin, shark, and whale otherwise known as skimming, scanning, and deep reading. This episode features Liz, Lisa, and Emma.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we go back to basics and talk about paragraph structure. We begin with a discussion about sandwiches (bear with us - it will make sense in the end!) before going through the components of a critical paragraph. This episode features Liz, Anthony, and Emma.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we chat about procrastination. We discuss what procrastination is, why we procrastinate, and what strategies we've developed to try and tackle it. This episode features Emma and Liz.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Adviser's, Emma and Anthony, chat to the team's work based learning students, Elly and Lucy. We discuss the project they have been working on, their experience of working with the Academic Skills Team, what they have learnt during their placement, and what skills they are going to take forward in their academic studies.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we chat to the University's Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Caroline Corcoran, about her role and how students can access support from her. As a published writer, Caroline also shares some tips for academic writing and editing. This episode features Emma, Liz, and Alice.
If you're a University of Chester student you can book an appointment with Caroline by emailing: Caroline.Corcoran@rlfeducation.org.uk. More information on Caroline and her books can be found here.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this special episode we chat about our recent success at the Educate North Awards and use this as a chance to reflect on The Skills Pod: why did we start the podcast? What's next? This episode features Anthony, Emma, and Liz.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we chat about evaluating a journal article. We go through breaking down a journal article and strategies/tools you might use when critically evaluating quantitative and qualitative sources. This episode features Anthony, Emma, and Mikayla.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Anthony, and Alice are joined by Associate Professor and University Innovation Fellow, Katharine Welsh, to chat about AI and academic skills. We discuss what AI is, the University of Chester's policy on the use of AI in your work, and the future of AI usage.
University of Chester students can access the Generative Artificial Intelligence Literacies course here.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we chat about approaching an assignment. We go through breaking down your assignment brief, making initial plans, and discuss the importance of process rather than product when it comes to researching and writing. This episode features Anthony and Emma.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we go back to basics and chat about the key conventions of academic writing. We go through ways to make your academic writing formal, the importance of referencing, and how editing can help you with clarity and conciseness. This episode features Anthony, Emma, and Liz.
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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma and Anthony, are joined by Wayne Connor-Scahill, Deputy Head of Nursing and Healthcare Education, to discuss critical case studies. We share our tips for structuring your case studies, incorporating criticality, and avoiding common pitfalls.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss the differences between note-making and note-taking. We look at ways to make your notes purposeful, how to ensure criticality, and share some strategies for effective note-making. This episode features Emma and Liz.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode Emma, Anthony, and Mikayla chat to one of our students, Ben (BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology), about his experience of engaging with The Academic Skills Team throughout his degree.
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Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss descriptive vs. critical writing: what do we mean by descriptive writing? How can you make your writing critical? This episode features Emma and Anthony.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss Imposter Syndrome, sharing our experiences of it and our strategies for dealing with it. This episode features Emma, Anthony, Nicola, and Alice.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss reassessments, sharing our tips on: dealing with setbacks, using feedback to improve your assessments moving forward, and strategies/resources available to support you during the reassessment period and beyond. This episode features Emma, Anthony, Stefan, and Alice.
Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for another episode of The Skills Pod as we share our top tips for Editing and Proofreading.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisors, Emma and Sharon, are joined by Fran Clipperton, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, to discuss reflective writing. We share our tips for writing reflectively, making reflections critical, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss academic posters, sharing our tips on how to approach, plan, and create your poster. This episode features Emma and Anthony.
In this episode we mention our episode on Presentations which you can listen to here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1192334/13983351
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss narrative literature reviews, sharing our tips on how to approach, plan, read, and write your review. This episode features Emma and Anthony.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss editing and proofreading: differences between the two processes, common errors to look out for, as well as our strategies for editing and proofreading. This episode features Liz, Emma, and Anthony.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode we discuss paraphrasing: what it is and what it isn't, common pitfalls, and strategies for effective paraphrasing. This episode features Lisa, Emma, and Anthony.
Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for another episode of The Skills Pod as we share our top tips for Time Management. This episode features: Laura, Lisa, Liz, Mikayla, and Sharon.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode we discuss presentations from design to delivery and share our own experiences of presenting. This episode features Emma and Anthony.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode we discuss MHRA: key points about what it is and some top tips for referencing correctly. This episode features Academic Skills Advisers, Liz, Laura, and Emma.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode we discuss APA 7: key points about what it is and some top tips for referencing correctly. This episode features Academic Skills Advisers, Sharon, Liz, and Emma.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma and Laura, chat with two of the University's Race Advocates, Oluwanifesimi and Thisanda, about their experiences of studying at university in the UK.
Welcome to our Top Tips Series! Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for a shorter episode of The Skills Pod as we share our top tips for Warming Up For Study. This episode features: Emma, Sharon, Laura, and Shirley.
Curious about what The Skills Pod is all about? Listen as Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Liz, and Tony, fill you in.
Welcome to our Top Tips Series! Join the University of Chester's Academic Skills Team for a shorter episode of The Skills Pod as we share our top tips for Independent Study. This episode features: Liz, Lisa, Emma, Tony, Sharon, Laura, Craig, and Mikayla.
Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode we discuss Independent Learning: what it is and our experiences of starting/restarting our independent studies at university. This episode features Emma Venables and Anthony Cliffe.
Join the Academic Skills Team for an episode of The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss Critical Thinking: what it is and ways you can incorporate criticality into your academic reading and writing. This episode features: Liz Johnson, Lisa Rhys, Emma Venables, and Anthony Cliffe.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss receiving feedback. This episode features: Craig Morley, Emma Venables, and Anthony Cliffe.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss Resilience. This episode features: Emma Venables, Anthony Cliffe, and Liz Johnson.
Join the Academic Skills Team for this special edition podcast episode on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma Venables and Lisa Rhys are joined by Fran Shollo, Andrew Firr, and Luisa Goncalves Rosado from Chester Business School to discuss Academic Integrity.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss Revision and Exam Preparation. This episode features: Emma Venables, Lisa Rhys, Mikayla Holmes, and Anthony Cliffe.
Join the Academic Skills Team for this special edition podcast episode on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma Venables and Tony Cliffe are joined by Wendy Garner and Michael Bird from The School of Education to discuss Planning and Critical Paragraphs.
Please note: this podcast was recorded for students in The School of Education so do be sure to check the expectations of your discipline regarding the topics covered.
Join the Academic Skills Team for this special edition podcast episode on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma Venables and Tony Cliffe are joined by Wendy Garner and Michael Bird from The School of Education to discuss Reading and Critical Thinking.
Please note: this podcast was recorded for students in The School of Education so do be sure to check the expectations of your discipline regarding the topics covered.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on The Skills Pod. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss Time Management and our strategies for juggling multiple tasks and deadlines. This episode features: Liz Johnson, Tony Cliffe, Emma Venables, and Mikayla Holmes.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuits, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss the things which scared us at University and advice for making it less scary.~This episode features: Liz Johnson, Tony Cliffe, Emma Venables, and Mikayla Holmes.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us discuss beginning/resuming university study.
~This episode features: Liz Johnson, Tony Cliffe, and Emma Venables.
Join the Academic Skills Team for a podcast on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax. Learn more about your Academic Skills Team as a group of us explore the music that helps us to concentrate to work, revise and think!
~This episode features: Nicola Dyke, Emma Venables, Anthony Cliffe, Liz Johnson, Mikayla Homes and Laura Kennedy.
Join Lisa and Liz for a podcast on the Chester Blend on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Lisa and Liz give you tips and hints to take you into the new academic year.
Join Liz and Natasha for a podcast on expectations of Postgraduate study on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Natasha give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences.
Running order of the **Postgraduate podcast
0:01 Introduction to Natasha - undergraduate course and postgraduate course
4:47 Step up at Masters Level - expectations
7:23 Importance of planning your time
9:20 Academic voice and research
13:17 Chunking your tasks for efficiency
15:29 Formal academic writing language
19:10 Time to think and process ideas or reading
21:00 Returning to education - Relevant life experiences**
Join Liz and Katie, a film studies lecturer, for a podcast on writing, editing and assignments on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Katie give you tips and hints.
Running order of the writing and editing advice podcast
- Writing about films
- Editing your writing
- Tips to get help with the editing process
- Context is everything
Join Liz and Sam from the SU for a podcast on referencing on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Sam give you tips and hints to take you through the expectations of referencing and the support the SU can give you if things go wrong.
Running order of the referencing advice podcast
- The role of the SU
- Sam's role within the SU
- Why referencing is so important
- Academic integrity
- SU support if things go wrong
Join Nick, Mikayla and Liz for a podcast on quantitative data on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Nick and Mikayla take Liz through some of the planning and questions that need to be thought about before starting a quantitative project.
**Running order of quantitative data
Introduction to statistics
Planning your question
Specific hypotheses
Descriptive statistics
Inferential statistics
Statistical significance
How the Maths Advisers can help**
Join Nick and Liz for a podcast on developing your maths confidence on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Nick give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of developing maths confidence.
Running order of the developing your maths confidenceThere are lots of different ways you may need to use maths at university and most courses will have some element of maths; whether looking at percentages or having to understand charts.
Maths anxiety
1. What it is
2. How you can cope with it and strategies
Maths at school is meant to be a building block to give you an overview, sometimes it is more like a stumbling block
3. Anxiety, stress and well-being
4. Follow the steps to get to the answer – not always obvious along the way
5. Practice
6. Little and often
7. OK to make mistakes
Maths is learning another language
8. Maths conventions
9. No exceptions so easier than learning English!
Join Liz, Shirley and Jen for a podcast on maths and resilience learning on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz, Shirley and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of maths and resilience learning and different tools that may assist you.
Running order of the maths and resilience learning podcast.· Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset
· Exercising the brain
· Learning maths and learning in general
· Expectations
· Comfort zone
· The growth zones
· Anxiety zone
· How you handle and react to difficulties
· Motivation
· Here to help
Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on proofreading and editing on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of proofreading and editing, and different tools that may assist you.
Running order of the proofreading and editing podcastWriting an assignment is a messy process – ideas/points and evidence all need to be discussed
Tidying up that assignment to get it ready to submit is not something you can do efficiently if you are still trying to write
Books and magazines have editors who take an overview and see where tidying is needed
You have to do this process yourself – if you can step back even for a day between finishing your assignment and editing it you will distance yourself emotionally and be a more effective editor
Finish writing
Have a break
Start editing in earnest
Have one goal in mind each time you look through your work – it can be useful to go through and highlight your work when you find what you are looking for
Start by going back to the question you were set
Have you answered the question?
Have you considered and evidenced all the learning outcomes?
Have you included evidence to go with each point?
Look at places you can save words – the word VERY is an easy one to get rid of.
Can you rephrase a sentence to get to the point more quickly?
Can you reduce redundancy?
Can you save 15 words and use them to include more evidence, or draw another conclusion that could potentially get marks?
Look at the flow of your work
Does the order make logical sense?
Did you follow your plan? – If not why not?
Does each paragraph have one point?
Did you use signposting in your writing?
Does each piece of evidence have a reference in your reference list?
Look at your list of references
Have you used academic sources?
Have you used material from the reading list and beyond?
Have you over-relied on one source?
Have you only considered one viewpoint or theory?
Have you believed the evidence without questioning it?
Can you get word or a friend to read your work out loud to spot partial sentences or typos?
Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on time management on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of time management and different tools that may assist you.
Running order of the time management podcast
· Identifying what your distractions are
· Identifying what takes up your time
· Demands on your time
· Planning time and making plans
· Approaches and tools for planning and managing time
· Work back from deadlines
· Pomodoro technique
· Being aware of procrastination
· When and how you fall into this
· Procrastinating to avoid pain
· Chunking information
· Focus on one thing at a time
· Create organisation for well-being
Join Lisa and Stacey for a podcast on warming up for study on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Stacey and Lisa give you tips and hints to take you through the steps of how to warm up for your studying.
Running order of the warming up for study podcast
· Getting into good habits
· Immersing yourself in the subject
· Getting back into reading and writing
Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on independent learning for your academic journey on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the skills of independent learning.
Running order of the independent learning podcast
· What is independent learning?
· Learning to learn and study
· Independent learning does not mean you are learning alone!
· Drawing on your previous learning and reflecting
· Preferred approach to study
· Being an active independent learner
· Going beyond what is taught
· Choosing to engage
· Being in control and responsible
· Have a plan, organise and manage your time
· We are here to help
· Remember independent learning does not mean you are alone
Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on reassessment for exams on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the reassessment process for exams.
Running order of the Re-assessment for exams podcast
· Reflect on exam score/ could you have done anything different to your knowledge?
· Planning for the exam
· Study key points
· Understanding, identifying and breaking down the exam
· Timing and pacing yourself
· Proofreading and checking
· Use all the time you have available
Join Jen and Mikayla for an introductory podcast on quantitative and qualitative research methods for assignments on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Mikayla and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the introductory overview of research methods.
Running order of the Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods podcast
· Introduction to qualitative
· Introduction to quantitative
· Importance of planning
· Establishing which method, you want to use
Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on reassessment for assignments on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the reassessment process for assignments.
Running order of the Re-assessment for assignments podcast
· Process the results
· Reflect
· Analyse the feedback
· Seek assistance for further skills development
· Breakdown parts and plan/ organise new approach
· Re-structure/ Incorporate missing sections or gain further understanding about plagiarism
· Proofread