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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, the Maths and Statistics Team, Mikayla, Matt, and Shirley, are joined by Academic Skills Adviser, Emma to demystify some statistical terms. From descriptive statistics to parametric tests, this episode will be a useful starting point if you’re new to statistics.   

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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Emma, Lisa, Stefan, Alice, and Sharon go through some academic terms you might come across over the course of your studies with the aim of demystifying them. From journal articles to academic arguments, this episode will be a useful starting point if you’re new to academic study, returning after a break, or just want a refresher. 

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Join the Academic Skills Team for The Skills Pod. In this episode, Academic Skills Advisers, Lisa, Sharon, and Emma, are joined by Katie Mansfield-Loynes, Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Healthcare Education, to discuss learning to learn. They discuss Katie and Lisa’s research into embedding academic skills sessions within a programme and the feedback they’ve received from students as well as sharing strategies for learning throughout your studies at university.  

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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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