In our final episode, Sam speaks to student Gemma about her experience of Clearing and her advice for results day.

Join Sam as he speaks to James, our brand new VP Activities about all things life at Northumbria. Tune is as James discusses his experience as a student here and gives his reasons why Northumbria is a great place to study.

We speak to Jack and Tanita about securing Accommodation and Student Finance through Clearing. Jack and Tanita offer their advice for budgeting, selecting accommodation and ensuring you have everything sorted for when you come to university.

In this episode, we discuss the Clearing process with Steven from Student Recruitment and Piper, a current Humanities Foundation Year student who came through Clearing.

The Northumbria Skills Podcast is produced by the Skills Development Team at Northumbria University Library to offer support and advice with learning skills.

In this episode, R is for Reading, we look at different reading strategies. Whether you are skimming through social media, lingering over a letter from a loved one, or critically analysing a 6-inch-thick Russian novel, making a conscious decision to read a text in a certain way can not only help speed up your academic research but also improve your academic writing.

Friendly librarian reminder: if you are making notes as part of your reading please don’t write on library books not even in pencil. Post-it notes are great, as is writing on photocopies, but not directly on the books please. Thank you.

We hope you enjoy this episode – please get in touch and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any learning skills team you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

Finally, these may be unusual times for all of us but the Skills Development Team is still here to offer help and advice about using the library or with your academic work. We offer remote support via telephone, email or Skype, 9am –5pm Monday -Friday. Alternatively, you can go to our collection of online learning skills support material, Skills Plus.

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Library website: library.northumbria.ac.uk

Skills Plus: library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/

This is episode is part of our series "the A-Z of learning skills". Randomly working our way through the alphabet, we look at skills which will help your academic life. Obviously yawning isn’t a skill, but in this episode, "Y is for Yawning", we ask if you have you ever yawned because what you are working on doesn’t excite you or the topic is dull. Listen to our top tips to help you focus and increase concentration.

We hope you enjoy this episode – please get in touch and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any learning skills terms you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

Finally, these may be unusual times for all of us but the Skills Development Team is here to offer help and advice about using the library or with your academic work. We offer remote support via telephone, email or Teams, 9am –5pm Monday -Friday. Alternatively, you can go to our collection of online learning skills support material, Skills Plus.

Follow us on Instagram or Twitter @NULibrary 

Library website: library.northumbria.ac.uk

Skills Plus: library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/

Northumbria Sport kicks off the new podcast with a Leadership Series chatting about all thing’s leadership and sport!

In the first of the series six former Student Sport Presidents meet to chat via zoom!

During their reunion they reflect on their time at Northumbria as volunteers, interns and sport club members and discuss how their experiences opened up opportunities, created resilience and gave them a lifelong community.

START:

Welcome and Intros

6min 10sec:

Why Volunteer and get involved in sport

20min 35sec:

International Volunteering (Zambia!) and 24 Hour Netball!

39min 52sec:

Stan Calvert Varsity and personal 'big moments of influence'

The Northumbria Skills Podcast is produced by the Skills Development Team at Northumbria University Library to offer support and advice with learning skills.

In this episode we arrive at I is for Introduction and discover that boxing announcers would make great academic writers, how to write a top quality introduction to an academic essay, and how to cut down on introductory waffle.

We hope you enjoy this episode – please get in touch and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any learning skills terms you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

Finally, these may be unusual times for all of us but the Skills Development Team is here to offer help and advice about using the library or with your academic work. We offer remote support via telephone, email or Skype, 9am –5pm Monday -Friday. Alternatively, you can go to our collection of online learning skills support material, Skills Plus.

Follow us on Instagram or Twitter @NULibrary 

Library website: library.northumbria.ac.uk

Skills Plus: library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/

The Northumbria Skills Podcast is produced by the Skills Development Team at Northumbria University Library to offer support and advice with learning skills.

This episode continues out A-Z of Learning Skills. In this episode, Q is for Quotations, we look at how to use quotations in your work and why it is important to let the reader know where you got your quotations from. If you do not acknowledge to source of your quotations you can be accused of plagiarism which is a serious academic offence and one that can have real world connotations as you will learn about in this podcast.

We hope you enjoy this episode – please get in touch and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any learning skills terms you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

Finally, these may be unusual times for all of us but the Skills Development Team is here to offer help and advice about using the library or with your academic work. We offer remote support via telephone, email or Skype, 9am –5pm Monday -Friday. Alternatively, you can go to our collection of online learning skills support material, Skills Plus.

Follow us on Instagram or Twitter @NULibrary 

Library website: library.northumbria.ac.uk

Skills Plus: library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/

The Northumbria Skills Podcast is produced by the Skills Development Team at Northumbria University Library to offer support and advice with learning skills.

In this episode we continue our A-Z of Learning Skills – if not strictly in alphabetical order – arriving at G is for Google Search. It is often said that you should avoid using Google Search for your academic work. In general this is true as there are other places where you will find more reliable information for your research, such as Library Search. However, there are times when using Google Search can really give added benefit to your work. This episode will help you work out when it is appropriate to use Google Search and gives you some hints and tips on using it effectively and efficiently.

We hope you enjoy this episode – please get in touch and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any learning skills terms you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

Finally, these may be unusual times for all of us but the Skills Development Team is still here to offer help and advice about using the library or with your academic work. We offer remote support via telephone, email or Skype, 9am –5pm Monday -Friday. Alternatively, you can go to our collection of online learning skills support material, Skills Plus.

Follow us on Instagram or Twitter @NULibrary 

Library website: library.northumbria.ac.uk

Skills Plus: library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/