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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.