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Join the University of the West of Scotland's Academic Skills Team for a 'Wee Blether About' various academic skills topics
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S9E11 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.
S9E10 A Wee Blether About...Exam Strategies
In this episode, Linda chats to the UWS Academic Skills about how best to prepare for exams.
S9E9 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…
S9E8 Another Wee Blether About...Proofreading
In this episode, Linda chats with the UWS Academic Skills team again about the crucial proofreading stage of assignments.
S9E7 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.
S9E7 A Wee Blether About...Christmas 2025
The UWS Academic Skills team release their Christmas podcast for 2025 giving their tips on how to study (and relax) over the festive break.
S9E6 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.
S9E5 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.
S9E4 A Wee Blether About...Academic Integrity with Dr Kate Cotter
We welcome a special guest, Dr Kate Cotter from the School of Business and Creative Industries, to talk about what Academic Integrity is and how the Academic Integrity panel works at UWS.
S9E3 Another Wee Blether About...Academic Writing Part 2
The UWS Academic Skills team take a deeper dive into the topic of academic writing.
S9E2 Another Wee Blether About...Academic Writing Part 1
In this episode, the Academic Skills team discuss what 'academic writing' is and give their advice on how to write at university.
S9E1 A Wee Blether About...Referencing Updates 2025
Linda and the UWS Academic Skills team take a look at the new Cite Them Right 13th edition book published in the summer of 2025 and run through any referencing style updates you need to know about.
S8E12 A Wee Blether About...The Academic Skills Team 2025-26
Welcome to the academic year 2025-26. In this podcast, the Academic Skills team introduce (or re-introduce) themselves and explain how you can use the service this year.
S8E11 A Wee Blether About...Types of Appointments
In this episode, the UWS Academic Skills team talk about the different types of 1-to-1 appointments that can be booked.
S8E10 A Wee Blether About...Paraphrasing
In this episode, Linda is joined by Mairi, Carly and John to discuss a key element of academic writing. They look at what successful paraphrasing involves and offer some advice on how best to go…
S8E9 A Wee Blether About...AI
In this episode, the Academic Skills team discuss Artificial Intelligence and how developments in the past couple of years are affecting university assessments. Making his first appearance on the…
S8E8 A Wee Blether About...The Basics of Assignments
Or 'How Not to Annoy Your Markers'! As ever, Linda is joined by the UWS Academic Skills Team to chat about how to do the basic things right when working on your assessments.
S8E7 A Wee Blether About...Numeracy
In this episode, Linda talks to Dr Alan Walker, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, and Academic Skills Adviser John about how you can access numeracy, mathematics and statistics support at UWS.
S8E6 A Wee Blether About...Notetaking
In this episode, Linda is joined by Carly and John to talk all things notetaking- why it is so important to do in the first place and strategies to deal with it.
S8E5 A Wee Blether About...Academic Skills Beyond University
In this episode, Linda, Carly and Mairi are joined by Lindsay from the UWS Careers team to talk about how all the academic skills you gain at university can help you in the workplace.
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A Wee Blether About... has published 66 episodes since March 2021, covering topics in Education, How To.
A Wee Blether About... is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 18m.
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