Skillscast

This time we’re focusing on a key part of learning skills, personal development and, as it happens, the Warwick Award – we’re looking at reflection, with two members of Warwick's skills team; Tom Greenaway is asking the questions of Steven Burke who has extensive interest in and experience of using reflection and reflective practice. He gives you some background to the art of reflecting, tips on how to do it, and explains how it can help improve so many parts of your life – including what you have for breakfast!

This episode also mentions the reflective practice toolkit that can be found on our website.

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In this episode, we caught up with two former Warwick students who have found success setting up their own businesses – David and Sumit. Both offer great insights into why you might want to consider becoming an entrepreneur and tips on how to achieve success doing so.

And don’t forget; here at the University of Warwick we have Warwick Enterprise, who can help you explore your ideas, develop your skills, and launch your venture. Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/enterprise.

See David's LinkedIn profile.

See Sumit's LinkedIn profile.

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This time we’re taking another closer look at one of Warwick’s 12 core skills – specifically, sustainability.

In this episode, skills developer Steven Burke caught up Laura Allison, a qualified dentist who swapped canines for carbon literacy – sorry, couldn’t resist – and pursued her passion for sustainability, becoming a sustainability co-ordinator here at Warwick in 2023. Laura has plenty to offer, including what sustainability means, why it’s important whatever sector you plan to work in, and some insights as to whether eating bananas is bad for the environment.

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In this episode you’ll get to hear from some of my immediate colleagues in the skills team about something we’ve not yet covered here – what it takes to actually learn a skill.

In this episode, two of Warwick's skills developers got together to talk skills – Steven Burke asked the questions and Tom Greenaway offered his insights and expertise. There’s lots to cover here, including defining skills, complicated gymnastics moves, and Rubik's cubes.

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In this episode, we’re going to hear from four students who were part of Thrive’s pilot programme who will tell you more about the skills they’ve developed both on the programme and alongside it. If you’d like to find out more about Thrive yourself, visit warwick.ac.uk/thrive.

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In this episode, we're joined by Jim Judges, who is an academic technologist here at Warwick and has more than 20 years of experience working in a digital realm. Across our conversation, Jim offers insights into why digital literacy is important, how it might change in the future, and why it’s important for students to think about while they are at university.

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In this episode, our focus is on the URSS and you'll hear the perspectives of four University of Warwick students who completed it in 2023.

In case you were wondering, URSS stands for Undergraduate Research Support Scheme, and it enables Warwick undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research project and receive a bursary towards it.

As you’ll hear from our guests, the scope of the URSS is huge and everyone gets a different experience and skillset from it.

If you feel inspired, applications for the 2024 version of the URSS open on Thursday 16 November, so why not take a closer look?

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How confident are you in selling your skills to potential employers?

In this episode, we meet Sam Merrix and Kelly Coles, both senior careers consultants at Warwick and both people who are well worth listening to if you want to give yourself the best chance of standing out to employers and kick-starting your career.

In this chat, you’ll hear tips on how to market what skills you have to potential employers, how to find out what skills those employers are looking for, as well as advice on how to prepare to talk about your skills at assessment centres and in job interviews – feel free to take notes as there’s lots of great stuff in this episode!

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Interview by Tom Greenaway

Hosting, mixing, editing, and artwork by Dave Musson

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Welcome to the first episode of the Skillscast, from the University of Warwick's Skills Team.

Our guest this episode is Fay Inverarity, who graduated from

In this chat, Fay shares some great insights about how to develop your skills while at University. Among other things, Fay shares how she’s found her first year of work, she talks about how she went about developing a range of skills while studying here, and reflects on the importance of, well, reflecting on your own skills development – particularly

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We'll be back in two weeks.

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Hosted, mixed & edited by Dave Musson

Artwork designed by Dave Musson using elements by Icongeek26, downloaded from Flaticon.

The Skillscast is brought to you by the team behind the

Launching in mid-October; The Skillscast - a brand new podcast from the University of Warwick.

The Skillscast is all about how to learn and develop your skills while at University, and how to use them to set you for a fantastic start to life once you graduate.

In each episode, you’ll get to hear from a range of different

Coming up in our first season, you’ll hear from recent graduates who have taken their next step. They’ll tell you how taking their opportunities to build their skills while at Warwick helped them find the jobs they wanted.

We’ll also bring you various experts from Warwick’s staff,

And, we’ll talk to current Warwick students and discover how they’re making the most of what’s offer while they’re a student here, as well as how they’re using those opportunities to develop their own skills.

Season one of the Skillscast launches in mid-October, and

The Skillscast is brought to you by the team behind the