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Ahead of the new term starting, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Carly tells host Linda about her top tips for getting back into good study habits in a shorter than usual podcast.

In this mini-episode, UWS Academic Skills Adviser Mairi chats to host Linda about her top tips for academic writing. A great listen for both new and continuing students.

In this episode, Linda and the team are joined by Andy Carrell, a current UWS student, to talk all things Academic Skills. Andy has studied at UWS since his undergraduate days and is currently embarking on his PhD. As a result, he is perfectly placed to talk about his experience of using the service and offer some great tips.

In this episode, Linda, John, Carly and Mairi discuss Turnitin, which you will almost certainly use to submit assignments at UWS. They explain what a similarity report is and how best to interpret the results from that.

In this episode, Linda, John and Carly talk about how to make group work work!

In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi share their tips for how to study more effectively.

Time to re-introduce ourselves given that there have been a number of changes since we last did an introduction podcast two years ago, above all new members of staff! As ever Linda hosts and is joined by Mairi, John, Carly and Christa to introduce themselves and talk about what the service can offer you in 2024.

A special guest joins us for this episode. Dr Chloe Maclean is a lecturer at UWS and has written about the concept of 'imposter syndrome' in higher education. She joins Linda, John and Carly to discuss what this means and how to change this way of thinking.

In this episode, Linda, Carly and John discuss OSCOLA, which is the referencing system that Law students at UWS use. Carly mentions the OSCOLA guide which can be found at www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola

In this episode, Linda, John and Carly discuss the important matter of referencing (again!), looking particularly at how to use the book Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide.

In this episode, Linda, Carly and John respond to a listener's request for an explanation of how to tackle assignment briefs with the words describe, analyse and evaluate in them.

Our very good friends, the Careers Team join us to chat about their work at UWS. In this episode, Uuganaa joins Linda and Carly for this episode. To contact the Careers Team, please email careers@uws.ac.uk

In this episode the academic skills advisers have a wee blether about using End Note at UWS

Sarah joins the team to tell us all about the work the international team do to support students at UWS

Kim from the Disability team joins the podcast to share how the Student Services Disability Team are here to support students at UWS and how we work closely alongside the team too.

Linda and John are joined by Cat from the UWS Wellbeing team to discuss the art of studying online.

In this episode Linda, John and Kevin discuss some of the issues students may have to consider when resitting a university assignment.

In this episode Linda, John and Kevin discuss feedback - what it is, why it is important, and how to make the most of it.

In this episode Linda, John and Ben discuss academic language and offer some advice on how to use it in university assignments.

In this episode Linda, Ben and Kevin discuss strategies for tackling exams.

In this episode Linda and Kevin spoke to a former UWS student Margarita Michael about her dissertation writing experiences.

Not sure what a supervisor's role is? In this podcast, we give you advice on how to make the most of your relationship with your dissertation supervisor.

In this episode, the team discusses plagiarism, what is it, and how to avoid it.

In this episode, we discuss methodologies within your dissertation. For lots of hints and tips on what this section of your dissertation can entail - have a listen!

Unsure of how to approach this section? Have a listen to your Academic Skills Team offer their friendly advice on discussing your results in your dissertation for UWS Students.