A Wee Blether About...

A Wee Blether About...

by Academic Skills - UWS

Season 10

A Wee Blether About...Postgraduate Research Part 1 with Dr Ruth Currie

Dr Ruth Currie from the UWS Doctoral College joins Linda and the team for this episode all about postgraduate research. This could be useful listening for anybody thinking of doing or just starting a PhD or MRes at the university.

Season 9

A Wee Blether About...The Academic Skills Team 2026-27

Welcome to the academic year 2026-27. In this podcast, the Academic Skills team introduce (or re-introduce) themselves and explain how you can use the service this year.

A Wee Blether About...Brightspace (VLE)

In this episode, Linda and the Academic Skills team discuss the new Virtual Learning Environment that you will be using at UWS- Brightspace!

A Wee Blether About...Reading and Writing Tools

In this episode, Linda chats with the UWS Academic Skills team about some of the free digital tools out there that can help you with your reading and Academic Writing.

A Wee Blether About...Exam Strategies

In this episode, Linda chats to the UWS Academic Skills about how best to prepare for exams.

A Wee Blether About...Our 5th Anniversary - Academic Skills Over the Years

A special episode today as A Wee Blether celebrates 5 years since the podcast launched. Linda is joined by Carly, John and Mairi to discuss how academic skills have changed during that time and what academic skills might be like in another 5 years' time!

Another Wee Blether About...Proofreading

In this episode, Linda chats with the UWS Academic Skills team again about the crucial proofreading stage of assignments.

A Wee Blether About...Academic Resilience

In this episode, Linda chats to John and Carly about the term 'Academic Resilience' and how you can develop it at university.

A Wee Blether About...A Student View of Academic Skills

In this episode, Linda and the team chat to 3rd year Nursing student Sukai Secka about her experience of using Academic Skills.

A Wee Blether About...Students Using AI

In this episode, the UWS Academic Skills team discuss both how Generative AI could be used to help with assessments and things to be careful of when using it.

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