Podcasts about freshers week

CW: death; brief mention of disordered eatingWhat happens when someone dies? How do you talk to someone who's lost a parent? What's wrong with the word 'talent'? Do you take on work that makes you uncomfortable? Why are we so scared of Freshers Week? We answer all these questions with absolute authority this week on Things Musicians Don't Talk About!Grab a cuppa, walk the dog/child, endure the commute, or simply rawdog this episode. We have a chinwag, a catchup and put the world to rights as per usual.Things Musicians Don't Talk About is now supported by the Royal Society of Musicians! Follow RSM on Instagram, X and Facebook.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Support TMDTAWant to support us on a regular basis? Consider joining our Patreon from £1 a month: https://www.patreon.com/tmdtaFeeling generous? Help us raise funds for the podcast: https://www.gofundme.com/f/things-musicians-dont-talk-aboutFind TMDTA on all the socials at @tmdtapodcast------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hosts: Hattie Butterworth & Rebecca ToalEditor: Rebecca ToalMusic: Katy Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Queen of Fresher Bonnie Blue is here to talk what really goes down on her Only Fans, how much she makes in 1 year and much much more!The Saving Grace XXX-Mas Special is coming to Wembley OVO Arena on 15th December, and trust us, you don't want to miss this! We're bringing all the festive filth, crazy games, and special guests that'll leave you laughing until you cry (or spill your mulled wine

PJ talks to Olive Foley about the grief the family bore after Axel passed and how the Children's Grief Centre helped. Hundreds were on the Courthouse Steps last night in further protest at Chambers changing image on Freshers Week. Our Denise has moved to Oz and tells us about life there. And more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A discussion on Chambers Bar changes for Freshers Week, Fionnán Sheahan with the latest on RTÉ, and Liam Heffernan on his time in Glenroe. Tune into the Neil Prendeville Show weekdays from 9am on Cork's Red FM. May contain sensitive content.

PJ takes calls on Chambers decision to change from Chambers to Sinners for Freshers Week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to the Pitstop Podcast! The F1 summer break is slowly coming to a close and the teams are gearing back up again to head straight into the first race back.. Zandvoort! But first.. Jake and Fab round up silly season with some more interesting F1 facts, and its Jakes turn to hit Fab with a Big Fat F1 Quiz. Have a great week wherever you are in the world and let's get ready to go racing again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In the latest episode of The Dish, we talked about Freshers week (and the mythical Freshers flu), the queen's death, Police Brutality in London and much more; we also had a special guest in Ali A, the host of LOUD. ------------------- Follow us on insta @thedishwithtbo for all things the podcast + insta exclusive content! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedishwithtbo/message

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What would typically be ‘Freshers Week' for many incoming college students has instead been mired in accommodation concerns for the academic year… In some case, students have had to defer their places in 3rd level, such is the shortage of living space, both on and off campus. Kieran was joined by Caitlin-Faye Maniti from Donegal to discuss her situation...

Are you starting university this year? (Or know someone who is?) You won't want to miss this episode! In this episode of the Dive Into Your Career podcast - I share "10 Tips for Starting University". The joke of it is, none of them actually relate to your academia / your degree because while you'll be taught in different ways and this can be worth addressing in future episodes - it is more the social element and the sense of belonging that will enhance your university experience in those early days. So, whether you are in the car on the way to uni, in your Students Union listening on your Airpods, in your room - on a treadmill... wherever you are - enjoy this episode and I hope it helps you as you embark on one of your most exciting life adventures. Got questions? As ever, we can chat further about this on any of these platforms:Follow Your Career And Future on Instagram and TikTokVia LinkedIn post about this podcast (or search for me "Gina Visram"Sign up for the mailing list E-mail me on gina@yourcareerandfuture.com with any questions you have or suggestions for future podcast topics ... and don't forget, you can leave a quick review for the podcast too. It's much appreciated! Catch you on another episode soon. PS - Randomly, the audio changes between 13 minutes - but it is still clear and easy to hear. Apologies. The episode was still worth publishing though so I did! 

Tips for students on sharing, budgeting and housing issues. What do you do if the flat or house you signed up for fails to live up to expectations? Who signs the lease and what responsibilites lie with the guarantor? Moving into a shared house can be a lot of fun but who's washing the dishes and how do you sort out the bills? Ulster University's Claire Drummond, QUB Student President Emma Murphy and Emma Kiely from Housing Rights are here to answer your questions.

Hey gang here,s  me going on about being half recognised, freshers week and my own youthful drinking, being a husband OTHER STUFF including EMAILS and FILMS/BOOKSwine?Thanks for listening. Click this  and support the show https://linktr.ee/brilliantshaneSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/shanesbrilliantpodcast)

A big part of University life is about getting drunk and skipping a load of lectures, right? Well, we don't think so. And neither do sober student societies across the UK who, alongside our student-focused initiative, #BeRebelAF, support and empower students who want to take control of their alcohol intake. Who said sober was boring? With #BeRebelAF, you can take advantage of all the fun of Freshers Week and beyond, just without the hangover!If you're heading off to Uni with no intention of drinking then you're not alone! With one in four students choosing not to drink at all, sober societies allow students to make new sober friends right from the very first week of Uni. In this podcast, we speak to three student societies from the University of York, the University of Lancaster, and the Queen Mary University of London, and learn how they cater for sober and sober curious students.Welcoming our three Sober Student SocietiesWith plenty of experience in student activities, in-house Club Soda student Lauren takes the lead on this podcast. Lauren speaks to the founders of three sober student societies from across the UK. Amy, founder and chair of York Sober Society, Ophelia, the president of Lancaster Uni's sober society, and Leilani, the new president of the sober society at QMUL all discuss how they've created alcohol-free zones for those who choose not to drink to fit right in.Support the show (https://joinclubsoda.com/product/tip-jar-support-club-soda/)

Gemma & Matty are back! Season 2 kicks off with a Freshers Week special. Starting uni for the first time is exciting but nerve-wracking, especially when you stammer. Gemma & Matty tell each other what it was like for them – meeting new people, anxiety and Freshers Fairs, and talk about what they would have done differently.Claire Maillet from the Stammerers Through University Consultancy (STUC) also gives helpful tips for anyone starting uni who stammers.STAMMA is the UK charity for people who stammer. For more information and support for making the most out of your uni experience, go to https://stamma.org/get-support/in-education/college-university  There's a webchat, free helpline and much more. Become a STAMMA member for free at stamma.org/join 

Riotous behaviour on College Road for Freshers Week, Opting Your Kids Out of Religious Studies, and the Treatment of Relatives at CUH. Tune into the Neil Prendeville Show weekdays from 9am on Cork's RedFM

Riotous behaviour on College Road for Freshers Week, Opting Your Kids Out of Religious Studies, and the Treatment of Relatives at CUH. Tune into the Neil Prendeville Show weekdays from 9am on Cork's RedFM.

"Don't put too much pressure on the first day or week. You'll have plenty of time for everything." You've accepted your university place and the buzz of results day is starting to wear off - what on earth do I need to do now to prepare for freshers week and my first year of university? This episode is made by with anyone who's about to start uni in mind; it's for anyone feeling apprehensive or nervous about the imminent change in their lifestyle, environment and people they interact with. Uni is such a fun time but can definitely take some adjusting to. Hopefully, this can provide some reassurance and useful advice to make the most of your time and prevent overwhelm in fresher's week! If you enjoyed it, share it with someone else who's off to uni soon!! You've got this x --- Things mentioned in this episode: Things Worth Fighting For podcast episode with Florence Given (here) Women Don't Owe You Pretty (book) How To Fail podcast ep with Mo Gawdat (here) A Uni Packing List (here) What To Pack for Uni (yt video) --- If you found something of value then share your thoughts via @spacetolearnpodcast or send this episode to a friend who might also love the pod! Thank you so much for listening x

In this episode of R, D and the Inbetweens, I talk to Dr. Ghee Bowman, Tracey Warren, Kensa Broadhurst, Laura Burnett and Catherine Queen about being a mature PGR - the benefits, the challenges, and what Universities need to do better.   Music credit: Happy Boy Theme Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Podcast transcript   1 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:15,800 Hello and welcome to R, D and the In Betweens, I'm your host, Kelly Preece, 2 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:32,210 and every fortnight I talk to a different guest about researchers, development and everything in between. 3 00:00:32,210 --> 00:00:36,170 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of R, D and the In Betweens. 4 00:00:36,170 --> 00:00:39,140 That's right. You are hearing my dulcet tones again. 5 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:47,930 I am back after a three episode break where the wonderful Dr. Edward Mills guest hosted a few episodes for me. 6 00:00:47,930 --> 00:00:53,450 So in this episode, I'm going to be carrying on a conversation that started actually on Twitter. 7 00:00:53,450 --> 00:01:02,660 So a number of our PGRs raised issues with some of the support that's available at the university for them as mature PGRs. 8 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:12,050 And so we thought it'd be really valuable to have a conversation about what it means to be a mature PGR, what that even is, what the challenges are, 9 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:24,710 what the benefits are, and also what advice they have for any mature students who are thinking of starting or about to start a research degree. 10 00:01:24,710 --> 00:01:29,110 So let's start with introductions. Ghee and Tracey happy to go first. 11 00:01:29,110 --> 00:01:37,920 Hello, my name is Ghee Bowman. I finished my Ph.D. in history in well I submitted in September 2019. 12 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,810 I am now. I'll be sixty in two months. 13 00:01:41,810 --> 00:01:54,380 I came back to do a PhD as a relatively mature student because I found a story that really fascinated and intrigued me. 14 00:01:54,380 --> 00:02:00,770 Hi, I'm Tracey Warren. I did an EdD or I'm doing it. 15 00:02:00,770 --> 00:02:06,860 I submitted about four weeks ago, so I got my viva in three weeks. 16 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:18,470 I was working in Abu Dhabi and Dubai when I started this journey, so I did it as a distance learning international student. 17 00:02:18,470 --> 00:02:21,080 That's great. Now, Catherine and Kensa. Hi. 18 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:30,770 Yeah, I, I've been working in private practise for over thirty years as a town planner and a landscape architect, 19 00:02:30,770 --> 00:02:34,160 and there was a real world problem that troubled me. 20 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:41,720 And I had the bright idea of coming back to university and actually doing a PhD to try and answer the question that I had in my mind. 21 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:50,330 So I actually applied for a Ph.D. that was advertised, fully funded and with a supervisor that I particularly wanted to work with. 22 00:02:50,330 --> 00:02:55,040 So I've come back into human geography. Hi, my name is Kensa 23 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:06,050 I am a second year full time student at the Institute for Cornish Studies, which is in Exeter's other campus down in Penryn in Cornwall. 24 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:15,470 I had been a teacher for about twenty years, having done the normal university master's degree straight after undergraduate. 25 00:03:15,470 --> 00:03:22,700 And then I was made redundant and very serendipitously that summer that I left school. 26 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:34,100 My PhD, which came with funding for my fees, was advertised and I thought, why not I'd always wanted to do one 27 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:40,220 So I applied, got this award at the studentship and started the PhD and last. 28 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:41,990 But by no means least, Laura, 29 00:03:41,990 --> 00:03:52,160 I'm Laura Burnett, I'm doing a PhD in history and archaeology and I did the undergraduate degree in archaeology and then I worked for a few years, 30 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:58,820 digging and so on then went back into the Master's. And then I worked professionally within archaeology for about fifteen years. 31 00:03:58,820 --> 00:04:06,740 And I always knew I wanted to come back and do a Ph.D. but it was around identifying a topic that I knew I wanted to do and I knew would work. 32 00:04:06,740 --> 00:04:12,710 And then timing wise, it's been about fitting around kind of family requirements and so on. 33 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:17,390 And that's why I started now and partly why I've chosen to start in Exeter 34 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:19,670 Thanks, everyone, for those fabulous introductions. 35 00:04:19,670 --> 00:04:28,190 I think what that really captures is the varying routes back into or into postgraduate research and postgraduate study. 36 00:04:28,190 --> 00:04:31,580 And I wondered if we could just take a little bit of a step back, actually, 37 00:04:31,580 --> 00:04:38,210 and think about what we mean by the term mature student or in this case, mature PGR. 38 00:04:38,210 --> 00:04:41,300 They'll be kind of an official university label, 39 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:47,570 which generally encompasses somebody who has'nt gone straight through tertiary and further and higher education. 40 00:04:47,570 --> 00:04:54,920 So GCSE's A-levels, undergraduate degree, master's degree straight into some form of research degree, 41 00:04:54,920 --> 00:05:03,230 but that doesn't necessarily work as a label for everyone. And I wondered what you thought of it as a term and how you felt about it as a 42 00:05:03,230 --> 00:05:08,270 label and a classification of who you are as a as a researcher and as a student. 43 00:05:08,270 --> 00:05:13,970 I think it is reasonable to label it. I don't know whether we can define how quickly I think is quite typical. 44 00:05:13,970 --> 00:05:17,870 My experience in talking to students is one or two years gap, 45 00:05:17,870 --> 00:05:25,020 but I think all of us here are people who've had a much longer gap the between kind of finishing our undergraduate off. 46 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:29,820 As you know, it's not just one or two years of working at that or saving up some money. 47 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:34,860 We've all had quite substantial gaps, which probably did change both our life situation, 48 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:40,890 but also the kind of experience and viewpoint we bring to doing a Ph.D. 49 00:05:40,890 --> 00:05:45,630 So I think it's worth thinking about a separate group, but I wouldn't say it's people who just haven't gone straight through. 50 00:05:45,630 --> 00:05:52,830 I'd say probably the people have had at least four to five years of professional experience before they come back. 51 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:57,480 I you know, I kind of I self identify as young. 52 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:03,870 And this is an expression that someone as someone said the other week to me and I thought that's such a great thing to say. 53 00:06:03,870 --> 00:06:11,670 So I mean, I don't know what mature means, really. I mean, yes. I mean, you know, when I started my PhD, I was in my mid 50s, 54 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:18,300 but in some ways I would kind of question what, you know, what what the differences are. 55 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:26,690 I mean, it's partly I think it's I you know, on the whole, I think I'm blessed with the ability to get on with people of all ages. 56 00:06:26,690 --> 00:06:33,540 And so I kind of you know, I didn't I never struggled with people, you know, 57 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:39,390 my fellow students who were in their early 20s or or their mid 20s, mid 20s seems to be the norm. 58 00:06:39,390 --> 00:06:44,850 But, you know, there was certainly some who were kind of like, you know, twenty two years old starting a Ph.D., 59 00:06:44,850 --> 00:06:48,990 which, of course, I never imagined myself doing when I was anything like that age. 60 00:06:48,990 --> 00:06:55,770 But I don't know. I just kind of think that, yes, it's a long time since I was an undergraduate. 61 00:06:55,770 --> 00:07:05,640 And I am very grateful for doing I'm very glad that I didn't do a Ph.D. when I was 20 or 25 or 30 or, 62 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,120 you know, actually it was the right time when I started in my mid 50s. 63 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:18,670 So I kind of reject the premise here, actually, that there is anything different about being a mature student. 64 00:07:18,670 --> 00:07:25,650 I think you do that. You do. When it's right for you. It doesn't work for everyone, you know, and it it's not always easy. 65 00:07:25,650 --> 00:07:29,970 But in my case, it was the right time. Yeah, I love that. 66 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:36,360 And I think in all of your introductions, when you were talking about how you came to doing your research degree, 67 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:44,940 you were all talking or providing us with stories that were very much about the right, the right time and the right topic. 68 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:49,980 So from my perspective, I think it's a combination of experience, 69 00:07:49,980 --> 00:07:59,430 opportunity and an eagerness to get into the world of work that I really didn't want to go through any more formal education. 70 00:07:59,430 --> 00:08:06,510 And I obviously did the undergraduate degree straight through to Masters, literally, because I didn't know what else I wanted to do. 71 00:08:06,510 --> 00:08:12,540 I didn't know what I wanted to do as a job. And I had quite a. 72 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:19,170 A negative experience as a master's student for my first master's degree, 73 00:08:19,170 --> 00:08:26,790 and actually I think had I then gone straight through to a Ph.D., wouldn't have been I wouldn't have the maturity that I have. 74 00:08:26,790 --> 00:08:39,090 Now, some people might argue I don't. And now having had sort of 20 years away from mainly away from academia and having worked in the real world, 75 00:08:39,090 --> 00:08:44,770 I know I'm quite happy to sort of ask things and go, OK, but I'm not happy about that. 76 00:08:44,770 --> 00:08:49,080 And this is what I want to do. And please, can you help me with this? 77 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:57,480 And I think that 22 year old, 23 year old Kensa would not have had that self-awareness or that confidence to ask for 78 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:04,350 those sorts of things and therefore have got the most out of what was available to me. 79 00:09:04,350 --> 00:09:09,930 And maybe that's maybe that's a reflection also of how academia's moved on. 80 00:09:09,930 --> 00:09:13,430 But I think that. 81 00:09:13,430 --> 00:09:21,590 As other people have said, it's the right time for me, I think it would have been a far more I'm not saying it's not stressful today. 82 00:09:21,590 --> 00:09:28,610 We all know that and we all know the amount of work and pressure that we often put ourselves under. 83 00:09:28,610 --> 00:09:34,520 But early twenties kensa  would not have talking about myself in the third person. 84 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:41,060 would not have coped with that in the way that I find that I'm able to do so now. 85 00:09:41,060 --> 00:09:45,800 I just wanted to reinforce what Kensa said. I completely agree with that. 86 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,060 I mean, I'm not quite as mature as Ghee, but not far off. 87 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:54,170 And I don't feel that I would have had the confidence to do what I'm doing now. 88 00:09:54,170 --> 00:09:59,210 I think impostor syndrome is a problem for everybody, regardless of age. 89 00:09:59,210 --> 00:10:07,820 And I think sometimes as an older student, you can find a problem, but you also have the resources to to work with it. 90 00:10:07,820 --> 00:10:13,640 You have the confidence to ask the questions. You're not so worried about how you appear to others. 91 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:20,910 Yeah. And it's that that thing of being able to be confident enough to say, actually, I'm struggling with this. 92 00:10:20,910 --> 00:10:23,360 Can somebody help me? Can somebody advise? 93 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:29,150 And I think mature students maybe find that a little bit easier to do because you don't really have anything to prove. 94 00:10:29,150 --> 00:10:33,710 It is lovely talking to the mature students. And actually that was something that really surprised me coming back. 95 00:10:33,710 --> 00:10:42,020 I thought I would be massively older than everyone else and I was massively heartened in my first few days to sit next to lots of the 96 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:48,860 people who were older and to go into the Induction in history and realise I was not the oldest person there by about 15 years, 97 00:10:48,860 --> 00:10:50,870 which is what I clearly expected to be. 98 00:10:50,870 --> 00:10:59,150 So I think people perhaps right now myself, I wasn't aware of how many mature PhD and research students there are. 99 00:10:59,150 --> 00:11:07,250 So I think that's something I hope, you know, this will make people realise, if I think you're coming in, is that this is not an unusual situation. 100 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:10,730 Yeah, and I think that's really key because there is even in the way that I frame 101 00:11:10,730 --> 00:11:16,670 this and challenge this so beautifully is is this assumption of difference. 102 00:11:16,670 --> 00:11:23,700 And, you know, like saying actually, you know, we're all human beings coming to this at the right time in our lives. 103 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:29,240 So are we really that different? But also, you know, the community is diverse. 104 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,580 And so I wondered if you could maybe reflect on what it was like coming in as a mature 105 00:11:34,580 --> 00:11:40,910 student and what your experience was of of your assumption of of perhaps being different, 106 00:11:40,910 --> 00:11:44,880 but also the reaction and response from your peers? 107 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:53,990 I think I've been really lucky. The department I went into, everybody was absolutely lovely and it just wasn't even a consideration. 108 00:11:53,990 --> 00:11:58,880 You know, I was at Freshers Week with everybody else, OK? I wasn't out partying, obviously. 109 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,230 But, you know, I was just with a bunch of other people who were all starting at the same time. 110 00:12:03,230 --> 00:12:05,480 They were all fantastic. We got on really well. 111 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:13,280 And I didn't really feel that age was even a consideration at any stage on that kind of carried on right the way through for me, really. 112 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,140 I found everybody very supportive. And it's just it's a community of people. 113 00:12:18,140 --> 00:12:22,070 I think age is just a state of mind. Yeah, age is a state of mind. 114 00:12:22,070 --> 00:12:24,920 I love that. And I think for me, 115 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:33,560 what made the crucial difference was that I came back and did the Masters more or less well I had a year between the Masters and the Ph.D. 116 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:42,980 So I was starting a Masters in my fifties after having been out of formal education for twenty years or so. 117 00:12:42,980 --> 00:12:52,550 And and so I struggled a bit when I started the Masters with kind of getting back into, oh, OK. 118 00:12:52,550 --> 00:12:58,640 So here's a confession. When I was an undergraduate, I did my undergraduate degree in the early 1980s at Hull university. 119 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:03,380 And it was a degree in drama and I was the worst student you can imagine. 120 00:13:03,380 --> 00:13:07,100 I was you know, I was partying I was living it up. 121 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:13,130 I was doing lots of productions, but I was not doing the work that was required to do to do the degree. 122 00:13:13,130 --> 00:13:23,270 And I very nearly failed. I came out with a 2:2 and I even though I was quite bright, I was just not doing putting the work in. 123 00:13:23,270 --> 00:13:30,830 And and that was, you know, that was so it was never nothing could be further from my mind when I was twenty. 124 00:13:30,830 --> 00:13:32,450 Than I would be doing a PhD. 125 00:13:32,450 --> 00:13:41,120 So I had to kind of between that stage of finishing my bachelor's degree and starting my master's degree 30 something years later, 126 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:48,170 I had to go through a long, long journey, which involved all kinds of stops along the way, where I realised, 127 00:13:48,170 --> 00:13:54,350 for example, that I was able to to write reasonably well, which is a skill I had anyway. 128 00:13:54,350 --> 00:14:00,840 But I didn't kind of I didn't have the confidence to realise that I was able to read and, 129 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:07,560 you know, read some kind of difficult theoretical text as well as the more straightforward. 130 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:19,720 And that I could tell that I could cope, but even so, starting the Masters, as I did in September 2014, I think it was was an interesting shock. 131 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:28,540 And coming up against some of the some of the kind of the sort of the styles and the 132 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:36,310 ways of being and the ways of talking and the and the how seminars were conducted, 133 00:14:36,310 --> 00:14:41,320 those kind of things are done quite some quite theoretical stuff which I struggled with. 134 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:47,690 And that was the difficult part, having then finished the Masters and done well in the Masters. 135 00:14:47,690 --> 00:14:55,260 Then when I started the PhD that that was an easy transition at the same university, it was the same department, some of the same people around me. 136 00:14:55,260 --> 00:14:59,950 So, yeah, it was the Masters beginning. That was a difficult thing. 137 00:14:59,950 --> 00:15:08,560 And I think I just going to make two points and one of them builds on Ghee's so if I start with that one that I'm thinking about, 138 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,900 kind of positioning yourself in department. 139 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:18,280 One thing I found a little strange is coming in as someone who's used to managing their work and managing their own time. 140 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,320 That's in some of the university setup. It's a little bit more hierarchical. 141 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:29,530 So my supervisor is massively long suffering because he he keeps going about things, 142 00:15:29,530 --> 00:15:35,260 saying things like, you know, has Laura checked your permission to do this ? He just very calmly says, yes, if I haven't, 143 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:41,200 because I completely forgot that I need to ask my supervisor whether I could do this thing that they could relate to, 144 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:47,620 but not because I'm not in the habit of asking somebody else's permission to do in research. 145 00:15:47,620 --> 00:15:54,160 So, yes, they're very, very sorry about that. But I do think that can sometimes be perhaps difference. 146 00:15:54,160 --> 00:16:00,610 The students who go straight through when they need to move from being a student in a 147 00:16:00,610 --> 00:16:05,920 hierarchical relationship within the department to moving to be a collaborator and a colleague. 148 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,090 And obviously people, who come in as mature students and perhaps people in something like archaeology, 149 00:16:10,090 --> 00:16:15,190 which is very collegiate subject in general, are more used to that relationship. 150 00:16:15,190 --> 00:16:23,440 And I think you have to have the right supervisors and colleagues around you who are expecting that they're not expecting you to be a slightly shy, 151 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,700 retiring or unsure students. They realise that you are a professional experienced person. 152 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:37,660 Right. The other point I was going to make about freshers week and joining in, as someone who 153 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:41,800 I've got my family responsibilities and I have young children and also, 154 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,590 although I live reasonably close to Exeter about an hour's driveway, 155 00:16:44,590 --> 00:16:51,910 so I've not moved to Exeter to do the PhD so I can get involved in some department of life. 156 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:55,240 And that was one reason I chose Exeter was I am close enough to do that. 157 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:02,560 But I didn't really take part in things like some of the more social side freshers week or some of the more social side the department. 158 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:07,600 And that does make a difference, I think. And yes. 159 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:16,750 And I think to sort of carry on with what Laura says, I live relatively near the Penryn campus, but I started at funny time of year. 160 00:17:16,750 --> 00:17:23,320 I actually started in November of twenty nineteen. So I sort of missed out on all the induction things. 161 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:31,330 So I very much don't feel part of the social side of Penryn campus at all. 162 00:17:31,330 --> 00:17:36,130 However, three months later, we then went into lockdown. We went online. 163 00:17:36,130 --> 00:17:43,150 And the great thing that I think actually has made my PhD and again, it feeds back to this, you know, 164 00:17:43,150 --> 00:17:50,560 not not feeling older or not not not sort of being perceived as being older than the other students. 165 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:58,210 Is the online community and online sort of support community has has been great and everyone is equal. 166 00:17:58,210 --> 00:18:05,950 Everyone is treated equally. So you really don't notice who's a mature student and who isn't. 167 00:18:05,950 --> 00:18:12,190 And the other thing that Laura was saying about it's the idea of asking permission. 168 00:18:12,190 --> 00:18:19,210 I never do. I'm very, very lucky with my supervisor because I all of my supervisions start with, well, I've done this. 169 00:18:19,210 --> 00:18:27,190 And he goes, okay, then, you know, and I think that possibly comes with the confidence, the maturity that we were talking about earlier. 170 00:18:27,190 --> 00:18:29,650 That's sort of. Okay, well, I, I, 171 00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:39,730 I'm used to having to run my entire life and having to organise this and spin lots and lots of plates because I had to do that throughout my career. 172 00:18:39,730 --> 00:18:46,270 So therefore, I don't ask people if I can do something, I just go ahead and do it. 173 00:18:46,270 --> 00:18:57,310 Yeah, so agreeing with Laura on lots of things. What's really clear from what you're saying is that there are a number of things that as a 174 00:18:57,310 --> 00:19:06,010 mature PGR and somebody who's been out in the world of work for a period of time and that, 175 00:19:06,010 --> 00:19:10,360 you know, there you bring things that are incredibly useful to the experience. 176 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:19,990 You know, you talked about that kind of confidence and the ability to ask questions and to kind of develop your independence as a researcher. 177 00:19:19,990 --> 00:19:23,290 Yeah, I think that's absolutely right. You know what it's about? 178 00:19:23,290 --> 00:19:24,950 I think it's about skill. 179 00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:33,850 That's what I think is, you know, kind of for me, the difference between between doing it now and doing it and not having done it. 180 00:19:33,850 --> 00:19:38,200 And so I think is like managing a project. 181 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:49,640 You know, it's like managing a really complicated, multi lateral, multi faceted project, which is basically me. 182 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:54,740 I'm on my own with some support from the supervisors. 183 00:19:54,740 --> 00:19:58,070 I like that idea of going into the supervision and saying, I've done this. 184 00:19:58,070 --> 00:20:03,950 And that's a really positive way to do it, is that, you know, you say this is where I'm at and this is what I've got to do. 185 00:20:03,950 --> 00:20:06,470 And this is these are the successes I've had since we last met. 186 00:20:06,470 --> 00:20:14,420 And these are the struggles and the questions that I'd like you to help me with, rather than waiting for the supervisor to start the conversation. 187 00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:15,470 That's really good. 188 00:20:15,470 --> 00:20:25,670 But, yeah, the idea of of, you know, being able to you know, through my other experience in my life, my varied experience, I know how to plan things. 189 00:20:25,670 --> 00:20:30,410 I know how to schedule things. I know how to fill time. 190 00:20:30,410 --> 00:20:38,120 If I'm waiting for something, I know how to manage the information. 191 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:44,140 I mean, a lot of it, particularly in history. So I did a history PhD. It really is about managing information. 192 00:20:44,140 --> 00:20:48,530 It's about managing my secondary reading and my primary you know the sources that 193 00:20:48,530 --> 00:20:52,910 I'm looking at in the archives and being able to handle all of that material. 194 00:20:52,910 --> 00:20:55,820 All of that is stuff I think that one gets in life. 195 00:20:55,820 --> 00:21:03,320 You know, that if you've got some experience as a person out with a job or with a family or both, then, you know, 196 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:11,240 you gain that experience and you can then bring that to you in the way that somebody is in their 20s, maybe can't yet. 197 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:16,220 Since then, I think I bring a whole lot of skills to it. 198 00:21:16,220 --> 00:21:22,910 But actually, I find I work on academic stuff is probably quite different to how I work on things I've worked on professionally. 199 00:21:22,910 --> 00:21:29,300 It's very seldom you do such a big project professionally and I've done some research and evaluation and that's similar. 200 00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:38,810 But it's rare that I do this sort of work professionally. So I'd say that actually there's kind of yes, there are skills I bring. 201 00:21:38,810 --> 00:21:43,550 And probably the thing that brings me to student is perhaps a lack of panic there. 202 00:21:43,550 --> 00:21:49,310 Are there more there are bigger disasters in my life. There are bigger problems in my life when things go a bit wrong with the PhD 203 00:21:49,310 --> 00:21:55,220 when things are a bit tricky with the PhD relatively, it matters a lot less than other things get bigger by life. 204 00:21:55,220 --> 00:22:00,470 So which is possibly not what supervisors want to hear. But I kind of like my PhD I kind of want it to go. 205 00:22:00,470 --> 00:22:03,890 Well, I want to do all of that, but it's not the be all and end of my life. 206 00:22:03,890 --> 00:22:12,560 And it can't be because, you know, I have other people in my life who are in the end more important, which is sad but true. 207 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:22,050 What I would say is I have found it slightly difficult because I have a way of working academically, which tends to be very intense. 208 00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:26,660 I tend to I'm I'm definitely someone who used to say doesn't stop moving til the ground, 209 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:32,150 starts shaking that I really I like to very much work towards something, but then have a very intense period. 210 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:37,910 And that's not always compatible with having a family life and working part time as a Ph.D. 211 00:22:37,910 --> 00:22:42,050 So that's something that I've had to learn to do as a mature student, 212 00:22:42,050 --> 00:22:48,560 which is different from how I worked when I was in my 20s, did my undergraduate or did my master's degree. 213 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:53,900 And I could just completely focus on a period, on a piece of writing I was doing. 214 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:56,720 And I just can't do that because I have two kids in school. 215 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:02,120 So there is I've actually had to learn to work in different ways in which you're a student. 216 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:06,980 But yes, like I bring bring a whole lot of kind of life experience to it, which helps. 217 00:23:06,980 --> 00:23:12,170 Yeah, I really I really identify with what Laura is saying. 218 00:23:12,170 --> 00:23:17,450 But one thing for me was actually working at the same time as studying and I found 219 00:23:17,450 --> 00:23:23,660 I was wearing two hats and I actually found that really difficult to juggle. 220 00:23:23,660 --> 00:23:29,240 My professional life was writing reports and communicating in a certain way, 221 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:35,840 and the writing that I was doing was very different to the writing I was doing as part of my PhD. 222 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:44,780 And that became quite a struggle for me, actually, because you were having to adopt these two personas and write in two very different styles. 223 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:49,490 So you do need to be very organised. I think this is something that Ghee was saying. 224 00:23:49,490 --> 00:23:56,420 And, you know, don't underestimate the fact that you are trying to manage all these things and have a family life on top of that. 225 00:23:56,420 --> 00:24:03,050 So, you know, it does take a lot of organisation. So if you have project management skills, certainly that goes a long way towards it. 226 00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:07,850 But I do think that mature students have slightly different requirements. 227 00:24:07,850 --> 00:24:14,570 For me, it was the kind of the academic writing side of things and, you know, just needing a bit more support on that front. 228 00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:20,510 So we've talked about the benefits and the strengths that you bring as a mature PGR 229 00:24:20,510 --> 00:24:25,340 What about the challenges? What about what are the barriers that you faced? 230 00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:37,310 And certainly one thing I found difficult is having had gone from when I was a full time younger student, 231 00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:49,000 is the way that academia's moved on and things like methodologies and sort of understanding of particular. 232 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,760 Themes and ways of working, especially within history or you just have no idea, I mean, 233 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,310 I'm somebody who did my computers with just about coming in obviously they coming in when I was at school. 234 00:25:00,310 --> 00:25:07,180 But when I was an undergraduate, I did all my work handwritten. Everything was longhand when I did my masters. 235 00:25:07,180 --> 00:25:13,120 Yes, I did wordprocess my essays, but we didn't have a university email addresses or anything like that. 236 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:17,230 So, you know, we're talking about that sort of gap. 237 00:25:17,230 --> 00:25:24,130 So it's not necessarily technology I usde technology the whole way through my career, but understanding the sort of, OK, 238 00:25:24,130 --> 00:25:32,140 this is how we've now decided that you structure a piece of writing and you need to make sure that you included this stuff and the other. 239 00:25:32,140 --> 00:25:44,110 I think sometimes people assume, you know, what that is and somebody's coming straight through would do because they've done an undergraduate degree, 240 00:25:44,110 --> 00:25:48,370 especially in history quite recently, probably in other subjects 241 00:25:48,370 --> 00:25:53,650 So history is my experience and I don't know that. 242 00:25:53,650 --> 00:26:00,610 So that, in a way has been a barrier and you just have to go, OK, I have no idea what you're talking about. 243 00:26:00,610 --> 00:26:09,370 Please, can you help me you know? Occasionally you get the slightly taken aback look, but most people are happy to point you in the right direction. 244 00:26:09,370 --> 00:26:16,630 Yeah, I agree with most people have said and I think there are just a number of things I've noted here. 245 00:26:16,630 --> 00:26:28,150 And the supervisors I've had have been really understanding of me as an older student because they understood that there be other life commitments, 246 00:26:28,150 --> 00:26:35,200 family work. So I don't I found them very supportive. 247 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:46,250 And despite everything that they have pushed things through quite gently in many ways, for me it was the challenges definitely of juggling work. 248 00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:54,040 I was working full time, so every weekend was basically doing the research. 249 00:26:54,040 --> 00:27:01,570 So for me, it's been it was tough the first two years getting assignments done. 250 00:27:01,570 --> 00:27:10,720 And then when the research itself took over, what I found was that that was much more within my remit to deal with timescales. 251 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:17,190 So that was that was great. I could actually plan that out, thinking of my work commitments. 252 00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:21,030 For me, I was as I said, I was an international student, so for me, 253 00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:29,190 I struggled with time because there was a time difference between the UK and where I was living. 254 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:37,980 So that wasn't just the case of being a mature student. I was juggling work and dealing with time differences when I wanted to contact my supervisors. 255 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:47,700 But as I said, again, they were very understanding and some of them were even messaging me over weekends because I worked on the Sunday. 256 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:55,680 The other thing for me was writing and I couldn't agree more with Kensa and that for me my writing style was very different. 257 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:01,920 And that was something that the supervisors commented on. And I reflected on this thinking. 258 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,480 As a younger Tracey, I wouldn't have written like this. 259 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:17,700 I wouldn't have written so confidently about my approach and my perspective, because I that, she said, was a very individual engaging style. 260 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:23,690 And I don't think I would have done that or had the confidence to do that. The younger me. 261 00:28:23,690 --> 00:28:29,450 And also for the research itself, I actually don't think I could have done this research because this has come over 262 00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:35,180 time experience in my profession and within that particular job at that time. 263 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:40,850 So the questions developed out of my work in practise in my life. 264 00:28:40,850 --> 00:28:51,440 Yes. So the barriers, I think there were the biggest one was juggling time for me and the distance with big time time difference. 265 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:57,710 But it was actually asking people for help and the right people that I struggled with. 266 00:28:57,710 --> 00:29:07,640 Sometimes I wouldn't know who to go to, whereas if I was on campus or perhaps come through Exeter as an undergraduate, 267 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:12,050 I might have known quicker where to go for advice on who to ask. 268 00:29:12,050 --> 00:29:16,420 But most of the time my supervisors have been very long suffering. 269 00:29:16,420 --> 00:29:22,390 Yeah, there are lots of things coming out there about being or not being a part of the academic community, 270 00:29:22,390 --> 00:29:26,890 and I wondered if we if we could spend some time thinking or talking about that, 271 00:29:26,890 --> 00:29:37,650 what kind of whether or not you felt welcomed into the academic community, what the what the barriers were again. 272 00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:42,650 I think one thing I would caution against is more think about people who perhaps think listening to this thinking thing, 273 00:29:42,650 --> 00:29:46,890 one is what worth thinking about. What subject I wanted to do 274 00:29:46,890 --> 00:29:53,260 I did think carefully about which university to attend, and partly because I have the experience. 275 00:29:53,260 --> 00:30:03,330 Someone else I could very well who did a of doctoral partnership as a mature student with the university that was some distance away. 276 00:30:03,330 --> 00:30:09,270 And I think that creates difficulties in terms of being able to contact people, 277 00:30:09,270 --> 00:30:14,730 but it also creates difficulties and perhaps perhaps take it sometimes opportunity to think. 278 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:22,920 And so one reason I wanted to come to Exeter was because they had a strength and a community of people working in the period I want to work in, 279 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,710 but also because they were close enough, for example, 280 00:30:25,710 --> 00:30:29,010 that I could get involved in teaching because that's something I really wanted to make sure I teach. 281 00:30:29,010 --> 00:30:36,630 My Ph.D. will spend some time practising teaching, and I was able to do that because I live close enough of course the things going online. 282 00:30:36,630 --> 00:30:38,730 It's made it much easier to be part of 283 00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:47,370 which has been wonderful and allowed me to really work meet more of the other students and staff working on similar periods to me, 284 00:30:47,370 --> 00:30:50,250 which perhaps I couldn't see, but I knew they would be there. 285 00:30:50,250 --> 00:30:57,690 I couldn't kind of be there at five o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon to actually go to seminars, meet them where I was being invited to do that. 286 00:30:57,690 --> 00:31:02,040 So previously I think that was a barrier with things that time, your seminars and so on. 287 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:10,140 But I do think, you know, when you're thinking about where to go and look for your supervisors, the right people, that happens. 288 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:17,310 If I think about that, do you think about that community and also what other things you want to do as well as do the research, 289 00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:22,230 whether being close enough to be involved in the department in that way is important as well? 290 00:31:22,230 --> 00:31:29,430 Of course, funding is can be a big control as well, yeah, a slight kind of double edge thing here, which I think is, you know, 291 00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:40,300 my grey hair and the fact that I look like, you know, sometimes I get respect from people just for that. 292 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:48,630 Sometimes because I'm an older white male, some people will give me respect, which maybe I don't deserve. 293 00:31:48,630 --> 00:31:59,280 And that is on the whole, it's a good thing for me anyway. However, I sometimes I think I've had experience of younger academics, you know, 294 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:10,710 even quite senior academics who are perhaps slightly uncomfortable with having somebody who is a lot older than them, who is, you know, 295 00:32:10,710 --> 00:32:17,280 at that but at that junior level, because there is a very strong hierarchy within the university, you know, 296 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:27,450 undergraduate masters, the professor, etc., etc. There are these very clear strata within the university. 297 00:32:27,450 --> 00:32:35,800 And if there's somebody, you know, on a higher stratum than me who is a lot younger than me, then sometimes I think they struggle. 298 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,190 I don't think I struggle on the whole. I don't think I do. 299 00:32:38,190 --> 00:32:45,890 But I think I've experienced I get older or younger academics who who don't feel quite comfortable in my. 300 00:32:45,890 --> 00:32:49,280 And I don't know what one can do about that. And equally, you know, 301 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:58,400 lots of other academics and other members of staff and students who are perfectly comfortable with the case of 30 something years older 302 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,820 but some people do struggle with it. I totally agree. 303 00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:05,630 I think possibly the thing that mature age, 304 00:33:05,630 --> 00:33:14,900 mature age students bring to the PGR community and maybe the university community as a whole is that we have this experience, 305 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,480 this larger experience outside academia. 306 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:26,750 And we are totally used to having to deal with people at all stages of their life and all stages of their own various journeys, 307 00:33:26,750 --> 00:33:33,950 and therefore actually dealing with a supervisor who might be 20 years younger than us. 308 00:33:33,950 --> 00:33:35,060 That's not my personal experience. 309 00:33:35,060 --> 00:33:44,090 But, you know, or people who have just got their kids who are far younger than us or people that who are far older than us, 310 00:33:44,090 --> 00:33:49,850 doesn't faze us perhaps as much as it would do to somebody in their very early twenties. 311 00:33:49,850 --> 00:33:55,040 And I wondered how that works for you, Tracey, because we're talking about kind of living relatively close to the campus, 312 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,790 whereas, you know, for quite a bit of your studies, you've been on the other side of the world. 313 00:33:59,790 --> 00:34:03,260 So what's that sense of community been like for you? 314 00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:15,920 Yeah, I think for me the challenge was actually having engagement with the student body and my fellow researchers as a community. 315 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:22,850 And at the time, although we have good technology that wasn't open to me until the pandemic, 316 00:34:22,850 --> 00:34:31,280 which you and I have discussed before, the actually the pandemic opened more opportunities for me. 317 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:51,440 And I feel that following my courses and access and seminars, conferences, going online, I feel I've got much more community with fellow researchers, 318 00:34:51,440 --> 00:35:00,320 whether that's younger researchers or not, because I certainly meet many more researches online. 319 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:06,230 In the last year than I did the previously, so I think it isn't a case of distance, 320 00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:12,020 it's a case of opportunity and access and thinking of it much more broadly. 321 00:35:12,020 --> 00:35:17,060 Yeah, I'm really glad you used the word community, because that's made me think about that again. 322 00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:28,310 And I'm kind of thinking that I really have felt I did I didn't feel very much that I was part of the the big university community, 323 00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:35,060 which is I mean, you know, it's an enormous community and it does it's not I mean, when I was an undergraduate just to go back there again, 324 00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:39,680 you know, there were a hundred students in one building studying drama at university. 325 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,780 And we were completely a family. And in Exeter, 326 00:35:44,780 --> 00:35:51,410 there are over a thousand students doing history as undergraduates and they are 327 00:35:51,410 --> 00:35:55,880 all scattered across the place and there's no sense of them being one community. 328 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:03,740 So and I think Exeter is a big university. And I think it's it's it's it's hard to pin down where the community is. 329 00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:12,020 But I always thought I did feel, you know, I was part of you know, I was I spent a lot of time in the library. 330 00:36:12,020 --> 00:36:23,240 I was kind of I would often eat on campus in the day time in and out of the guild, you know, making I mean, I was on university challenge team, 331 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:32,390 we didnt get on the TV, but even, you know, the kind of lots of things that made me feel as if I was as if I was part of this big group of people. 332 00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:37,700 And I think that that for me really made it work. 333 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:41,600 And I think I had a again, I had a confidence about that. 334 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,580 I mean, I think that's a word that people have used. 335 00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:52,550 I had a confidence about joining things and going up to people and saying, hello, what can I join in, you know, that kind of stuff. 336 00:36:52,550 --> 00:37:02,180 But that I didn't have when I was if I just want to think about how some of this difference what you want to get out of the PhD 337 00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:08,510 you know, are you doing it professionally to move yourself forward professionally, and you know where that's going to go? 338 00:37:08,510 --> 00:37:18,170 Are you doing it to actually change careers? Are you doing as an experience to develop yourself intellectually, to develop new insights, new research, 339 00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:24,260 in which case that kind of social aspect of being part of a university community can be really important 340 00:37:24,260 --> 00:37:29,630 because you want to open your mind to new things and to meet new people and to be part of that or like, 341 00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:35,480 say, if you if it's a much more this is a professional step within my own career, developing my own skills. 342 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:42,260 You may not actually feel that need because you are already have that community within your professional practise. 343 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:46,340 So I'm probably somebody whose perhaps move on that a bit 344 00:37:46,340 --> 00:37:55,520 I think when I first came back to do my PhD, very much so this is something that was part of that myself, actually within my career. 345 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,690 But I wasn't very clear about where I wanted what I want after 346 00:37:59,690 --> 00:38:04,380 And if I actually I'm still not and I still get lots of different ideas. But actually, let's go back, in fact. 347 00:38:04,380 --> 00:38:11,500 So I assumed I would never want to come back in academia after my PhD because I thought it was 348 00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:19,450 Possibly sometimesa hit horribly competitive for very small rewards and not perhaps that collegiate in some ways, 349 00:38:19,450 --> 00:38:27,310 and I didn't really feel that was the kind of society I'm working. But actually, I really loved to kind of, you know, teaching and studying again. 350 00:38:27,310 --> 00:38:31,540 And, you know, maybe there are opportunities for me that grateful to be part time. 351 00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:36,250 I've got years to worry about what I'm going to do afterwards. I and try lots of things in the meantime. 352 00:38:36,250 --> 00:38:41,920 That's also what Iwanted to do was to give myself that space to have a PhD part time 353 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:48,010 So I knew I had some income coming in and some work, but also to give myself space to explore new things. 354 00:38:48,010 --> 00:38:54,130 So I suppose why you're coming to do the PhD might impact what other things you to look for and what you really need. 355 00:38:54,130 --> 00:38:57,940 I was just listening to to what Laura said and smiling. 356 00:38:57,940 --> 00:39:05,050 I came I mentioned earlier I came into to do my PhD because it was to solve a problem I had in my career. 357 00:39:05,050 --> 00:39:08,290 And I was doing very well in my career. It was going great. 358 00:39:08,290 --> 00:39:14,260 There was no question of me going into academia, you know, and I was going to go back into my job and I'd be better informed. 359 00:39:14,260 --> 00:39:22,270 Well, that was just rubbish, because doing a PhD changes you as a person in lots of really good ways. 360 00:39:22,270 --> 00:39:29,830 And doing it part time, I think has helped me to kind of compare my working life with my academic life. 361 00:39:29,830 --> 00:39:34,630 And when you're in your 50s, people don't have any great expectations of you to go into academia. 362 00:39:34,630 --> 00:39:40,720 They think you're going to stick with your life in practise. And actually, I've just completely fallen in love with academia. 363 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:48,700 I'm due to submit my PhD in September, and I've already been successful in securing a permanent lectureship, 364 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:52,810 which I started in the New Year in Liverpool, and I just couldn't be happier. 365 00:39:52,810 --> 00:40:00,910 I'm a completely different person. I now have a totally different life and I just feel like I've come home, you know, 366 00:40:00,910 --> 00:40:06,430 and I like being in consultancy, but I'm just absolutely delighted with the way things have worked out. 367 00:40:06,430 --> 00:40:14,350 Anddoing a PhD has given me skills and experience and confidence and all the things that I didn't have before. 368 00:40:14,350 --> 00:40:19,990 And that's why I would just say to people, just go for it, because you really don't know where it's going to take you. 369 00:40:19,990 --> 00:40:30,400 That's just completely fantastic. Catherine, congratulations. And talking about kind of, you know, going onto an academic career. 370 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:38,260 It's a really nice Segway actually, into what started this conversation, which was about career support for mature students, you know, 371 00:40:38,260 --> 00:40:40,900 who aren't kind of haven't gone through that, I don't know, 372 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:47,080 conveyor belt of education without without getting off and doing professional work and so on. 373 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:57,280 Don't know if we could speak a bit about that, about kind of what support you actually need as mature PGRs as you already have had careers 374 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,830 who have sought a PhD as a professional development opportunity or as a career change? 375 00:41:02,830 --> 00:41:13,390 You know what? What is it that you need that's different? I can I can start this off because I'm slightly to blame for the entirety of this podcast. 376 00:41:13,390 --> 00:41:21,370 I have having been a teacher in secondary schools, I have absolutely no desire to go back to that. 377 00:41:21,370 --> 00:41:28,690 Not dissing teaching as a career at all. I have the utmost respect for my former colleagues, especially the work they've done in the last year. 378 00:41:28,690 --> 00:41:32,920 But it's not something I want to return to. So I'm that's OK. 379 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:37,360 I'm in my second year of my Ph.D. stage. I need to decide what I'm going to do afterwards. 380 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,820 I need to start looking at options. 381 00:41:39,820 --> 00:41:51,610 So I'm going to as many I spent the sort of spring term this year going to as many careers seminars and talks and so on as possible and got very 382 00:41:51,610 --> 00:42:01,510 frustrated very early on because there was just this assumption that people looking for work were aged 22 and had an undergraduate degree. 383 00:42:01,510 --> 00:42:10,810 And I actually went to one to where the person said he was, you know, the Exeter graduate who they'd got in to do the talk, 384 00:42:10,810 --> 00:42:15,850 said, oh, yes, and you can make senior management by the time you're 25. 385 00:42:15,850 --> 00:42:20,080 And I, you know, had had we actually physically been in the same room, 386 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:27,340 I think I'd probably having said I'm mature and have grown up and what I probably would have thrown something at him. 387 00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:34,720 There is just this assumption that people looking for work or have just finished university and have no 388 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:41,800 experience and are looking for a career and they just want money and they want to live in central London. 389 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:50,860 And we all know everyone, undergraduates, schoolteachers, children and teenagers in school, everybody knows that is not true. 390 00:42:50,860 --> 00:42:56,230 So why is this still this fantasy still being peddled in career seminars? 391 00:42:56,230 --> 00:43:03,100 And I didn't challenge him in that one. But then I went to another seminar probably a few days later. 392 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:09,520 And actually I did turn around to go hi person in my mid forties here who's had one career. 393 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:18,000 Doesn't know what they want to do with their life after the PhD, please don't assume this, and actually got a really positive response from that. 394 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:24,550 But but yes, there is this. You know, I think. 395 00:43:24,550 --> 00:43:27,670 Maybe that's that's something that we need to do as mature students, 396 00:43:27,670 --> 00:43:31,990 but there are a lot of mature students as we've discovered and we need to challenge these 397 00:43:31,990 --> 00:43:38,180 stereotypes and say and also let alone with the way that society has changed, 398 00:43:38,180 --> 00:43:42,460 spot the historian here, the way society has changed over the last 50 years, 399 00:43:42,460 --> 00:43:48,580 people do not go into jobs at the age of 16 and stick with that one company until they're 65. 400 00:43:48,580 --> 00:43:53,740 Many, many people have either changed jobs or change careers partway through their lives. 401 00:43:53,740 --> 00:44:06,340 And I think that's hopefully careers services and whoever will start to realise this and start to sort of tailoring things to, 402 00:44:06,340 --> 00:44:12,880 you know, maybe we need to go and ask for it rather than expecting it to be handed this information to be handed to us on a plate. 403 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:19,940 But I think that people need to start catering for a wider range of needs. 404 00:44:19,940 --> 00:44:26,680 That sounds like actually the university's career department need to do some targeted sessions or or a theme stream, 405 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:31,600 which is about mature students, not necessarily only PGRs 406 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:37,870 but, you know, students of in any level or department or whatever who are, you know, 407 00:44:37,870 --> 00:44:43,690 who are kind of coming in again after after experience family and work. 408 00:44:43,690 --> 00:44:50,920 And you know how that is different and what they you know how it is, because the fact is, we've all got a hell of a lot to offer. 409 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,910 You know what? It's just a question of finding the right. 410 00:44:54,910 --> 00:45:00,160 The people who are looking for that stuff that we've got to offer, you know, and we are. 411 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,400 Yeah, we're great. I agree obviously with Ghee we are wonderful. 412 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:12,400 And people would be lucky to us in their career, I think also because if we're dissing the career service providers, who arent here to reply 413 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:20,170 they could also be missing because I know some of the conversation in amongst issues more broadly is about things like this 414 00:45:20,170 --> 00:45:28,690 terrible phrase of atl-ac the kind of people who are doing PhDs who aren't then planning to go on to an academic career and obviously from people, 415 00:45:28,690 --> 00:45:36,250 the students or from people who've done some of those other careers and therefore perhaps have some useful insights into that conversation. 416 00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:49,150 Or, you know, they could be the university could be exploiting some of our links into kind of industry and into other other areas of the subject. 417 00:45:49,150 --> 00:45:57,520 And it might perhaps be to call back something we spoke about earlier in that subject where sometimes some of the other 418 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:04,450 people who work in department have gone through perhaps more traditional route have stayed in academia their entire career. 419 00:46:04,450 --> 00:46:14,560 And actually therefore, that kind of wider understanding, that of those uproots is sometimes not perhaps there to the same extent. 420 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:20,170 And that's something that the that could can usefully not just mature students, 421 00:46:20,170 --> 00:46:27,790 but by setting it is more of a conversation and the way we can the community with an extra can contribute and work together. 422 00:46:27,790 --> 00:46:31,930 This could be something that other students can benefit from as well. 423 00:46:31,930 --> 00:46:39,580 And the people working in these career service jobs might benefit from some of our expense. 424 00:46:39,580 --> 00:46:41,570 Just very quickly, Laura you;re just spot on. 425 00:46:41,570 --> 00:46:47,320 I and I think the amount of times I've been in an academic situation and I've seen academics with loads of experience who don't know, 426 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:53,650 for example, how to run a meeting, who don't know how to handle a seminar, you know, who only have one way of doing things. 427 00:46:53,650 --> 00:46:58,750 And that's what they've been doing for 20, 30 years within an academic context. 428 00:46:58,750 --> 00:47:03,700 One thing I'd say is perhaps sometimes the nature of this being something that the university 429 00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:09,700 needs to do for students to recognise that if the university is a community, 430 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:15,250 a kind of academic collegiate community, then this is something we do together in collaboration. 431 00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:21,130 This isn't something the university needs to do for students as a kind of someone lower down the hierarchy. 432 00:47:21,130 --> 00:47:29,560 Perhaps this is this is a this is a we work together at which, you know, I know some people do work collaboratively and that's true. 433 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,730 But I think that can we talk a little bit earlier on about sometimes that that 434 00:47:33,730 --> 00:47:37,690 hierarchical relationship that can creep in and that that that is a problem, 435 00:47:37,690 --> 00:47:41,950 I think. And that perhaps is very here. You're right. 436 00:47:41,950 --> 00:47:47,470 And I think that working in collaboration and that reciprocity is really important because one of the 437 00:47:47,470 --> 00:47:55,450 big philosophies of the way that I work is no one knows better what PGRs need than PGRs themselves. 438 00:47:55,450 --> 00:48:03,640 And so I think it's really important for us to working in collaboration, to work together on this and to wrap up. 439 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,740 I want to think or imagine that, you know, 440 00:48:05,740 --> 00:48:14,320 there's somebody listening to this podcast who is considering doing a research degree as a mature student or is just about to start. 441 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:23,890 What advice would you give them? What do you wish that you knew at the point at which you started or were considering applying? 442 00:48:23,890 --> 00:48:28,870 It's not so much of what I wish I'd known better, what I have come to realise, 443 00:48:28,870 --> 00:48:35,790 and that is don't be put off by thinking, oh God, I'm a mature student, what on earth my doing with my life? 444 00:48:35,790 --> 00:48:41,860 I suddenly take three or four years out to do a Ph.D. Just go ahead and do it. 445 00:48:41,860 --> 00:48:45,550 You can have whatever whatever life journey you've been on. 446 00:48:45,550 --> 00:48:52,390 You have acquired the skills and the knowledge and the ability to do a Ph.D. and you know, 447 00:48:52,390 --> 00:48:57,640 whether that juggling lots and lots of different things and commitments plus full time study, 448 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:02,920 whether that's juggling a full time job and part time study, you have learnt those things. 449 00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,930 You have learnt those skills. And what you need to do is just think I can do this. 450 00:49:07,930 --> 00:49:12,670 The support is there and I will learn so much about myself. 451 00:49:12,670 --> 00:49:17,740 And maybe it's not just about learning about yourself. I will gain something. 452 00:49:17,740 --> 00:49:22,840 And actually I do have the right to do this for me. 453 00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:28,120 So I would say then don't be put off by thinking it's just something that people who 454 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:34,480 are very brainy in their mid twenties do not describe myself as very brainy either. 455 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:43,270 But yeah, just go for it. Yeah, I mirror some of what Kensa's said, so I just jotting down a couple of things. 456 00:49:43,270 --> 00:49:49,420 And I think the main thing that people said to me about it was a marathon, not a sprint. 457 00:49:49,420 --> 00:50:01,690 I go at my workplace or life at like a hundred miles an hour or a hundred and forty kilometres an hour along the Dubai Abu Dhabi highway. 458 00:50:01,690 --> 00:50:08,230 And I was still expecting to do that with my doing the doctorate. 459 00:50:08,230 --> 00:50:15,730 And it was only on reflection recently that I recognised that if it was a marathon and that 460 00:50:15,730 --> 00:50:24,940 a different process and different pace and then also mirroring what Kensa had said, 461 00:50:24,940 --> 00:50:36,250 the word I put down was skills, is that I have acquired so many amazing skills during this journey, 462 00:50:36,250 --> 00:50:44,290 and that's through my workplace and life as well as through this research opportunity. 463 00:50:44,290 --> 00:50:50,680 So I think if anybody was debating whether to do it, I'd say absolutely, 464 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:56,950 because you learn so much on the way and incorporate a lot of your life skills. 465 00:50:56,950 --> 00:51:02,980 I was just going to completely echo what the others have said I think that it's much better that I can so i'll just agree with them on that. 466 00:51:02,980 --> 00:51:10,600 Ang one point I was going to raise which hasn't kind of come up some where in the podcast was about doing it in combination with having a young family, 467 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:15,070 and that I have two boys who are now just eight and five. 468 00:51:15,070 --> 00:51:23,770 And so I started when they're three and five. And obviously that of many mature students have perhaps caring responsibilities as do younger students, 469 00:51:23,770 --> 00:51:29,700 but actually a part-time PhD combines really well with having a family because there is flexibility about where you fit the work. 470 00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:38,110 And so that can really that can work quite well in that I work much more intense because of the times I can take the time off to the holidays. 471 00:51:38,110 --> 00:51:46,120 So if you're thinking will having a young family prevent me from doing a PhDit can actually be a type of work that fits pretty well with it. 472 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:50,110 But I think what's been inspiring this podcast has been seeing how yes, 473 00:51:50,110 --> 00:51:54,280 go in with a clear idea about why you want to be doing the PhD be clear about why you want to do that topic, 474 00:51:54,280 --> 00:52:01,570 about what you really value about that topic and you know about why you've chosen to do it, where you've chosen to do it. 475 00:52:01,570 --> 00:52:07,000 But I think what to expect expects that that change, that growth you have to PhD. 476 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:13,690 And so don't be surprised if it goes in a different direction as you work through and that you change as you're doing it. 477 00:52:13,690 --> 00:52:18,700 But, yeah, I would agree with people. I think that's it. But I have been glad to do it now. 478 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:25,330 You know, I wasn't in the place where my kids were very small babies. It wouldn't it would be more much more difficult. 479 00:52:25,330 --> 00:52:29,350 And I don't know whether I'd have come to my twenties. 480 00:52:29,350 --> 00:52:37,570 I would probably have done a different PhD. So, you know, it it fits people at different stages. 481 00:52:37,570 --> 00:52:42,760 Yeah. I mean, I'm just going to agree with everybody else. But one thing I would say is be kind to yourself. 482 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:49,000 My supervisor often says to me to stop being so hard on myself, he reckons I'm my own worst enemy. 483 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:53,320 And I think sometimes we do put a lot of pressure on ourselves as mature students. 484 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:59,920 So just something to be aware of. I also think we shouldn't stereotype ourselves, OK, we're mature students. 485 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:04,870 But, you know, I think we've seen today that actually it doesn't make a lot of difference what age you are. 486 00:53:04,870 --> 00:53:08,740 We all deserve to be there and we've all earned the right to be there. 487 00:53:08,740 --> 00:53:14,500 And just to reiterate what other people said, just be prepared to come out as a different person at the end of it. 488 00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:22,570 Yeah, thank you. I mean, it's one of the things I think I want to say is, is that it's it's not for everyone. 489 00:53:22,570 --> 00:53:28,650 I think that some. That should be said to anyone who's thinking about going to university at any level, 490 00:53:28,650 --> 00:53:38,340 if they're a 17 year old thinking about an undergraduate degree or if they're thinkin

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It’s Freshers’ Week and Chris gets stitched up by his friends at a toga party. Plus he learns to ‘save the queen’ by downing a pint and his roommate is caught in a compromising situation with his sock.

A longtime fan of the show and the CEO of Arfordir Clothing joins us to tell us what life is like for millenials in the year 2018 - will University life change this wide-eyed ragamuffin?!? 0:50 - Freshers Week at Bangor University 06:30 - Listen to a Thing: Nirvana - You Know You're Right 09:55 - Millenials 17:30 - *Arfordir Clothing Advertisement* 24:00 - Listen to a Thing: Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply 30:45 - University Experiences 35:05 - Afterlife & Ghosts 48:40 - Listen to a Thing: Beck - Loser 51:05 - Living Life to the Fullest

Whether you’re willing to admit it or not, everyone’s nervous about starting uni. To help you make the most of it, we decided to get in the recording studio (spoiler: it’s just our office) and share our top tips for freshers’ week. We start by discussing our own freshers’ week experiences (translation: here’s what went wrong for us). We say it a few times during the podcast, but it’s worth repeating once more - freshers’ week doesn’t have to be the insane seven-day party that everyone makes it out to be! Nonetheless, it’s worth taking some steps to help make your freshers’ week into the amazing experience that you deserve. We run through our top 10 tips for surviving freshers’ week and then take a listen to what you - yes, YOU - said you wish you’d known before starting uni. From getting romantically involved with flatmates to the price of dairy products, you really covered all the bases! Probably the scariest thing about starting uni is making friends, and no freshers’ podcast would be complete without some hints and tips on how to find some mates. If you’ve listened before you’ll know what Jess and Tom are like, and you’ll know that if they were able to make friends at uni, anyone can! If you’re moving away for university, then you’ll have to get to grips with your new flatmates too. Worry not, as Jess and Tom share their tips on surviving shared living. Things get a bit heated as they delve into the housemate habits that annoy them the most, but it spawns some great advice on how to behave if you want a harmonious household. Finally, our resident Student Money Expert, Jake, is back by popular(ish) demand to share some of his pearls of wisdom on budgeting for uni life. He very much seems to have learned from his mistakes, as his story of an extravagant freshers’ purchase can testify. Access the show notes on www.savethestudent.org/podcast Don’t forget, you can share your own stories and money problems by sending us a voice message on WhatsApp (just head to savethestudent.org/whatsapp to join the group), tweeting us at @savethestudent or emailing us at podcast@savethestudent.org. If you have any burning questions about how to save money at university, or have any feedback on the show, we’d love to hear from you! Hope you enjoy the show!

Up Front Club Bangers that'll be getting played in my sets during Freshers Week 2018

This week Sam takes us on a trip down memory lane, with tales of Freshers Week 2006... he made a poor first impression on Amelia but that was the least of his worries.

The Oxford University Counselling Service provides practical advice on Freshers’ Week and beyond to help new undergraduates take the challenges in their stride. Text by Maureen Freed, read by Kevin Halon.

PaSTAcast returns for the new term with five NaSTA alumni sharing their thoughts on how best to recruit and retain new station members.

PaSTAcast returns for the new term with five NaSTA alumni sharing their thoughts on how best to recruit and retain new station members.

The bungee jumping event was put on by the University of South Wales Students' Union as a part of Freshers Week 2013. For more events put on by our Students' Union visit their website http://uswsu.com Book to come on an Open Day at the University of South Wales to find out what and how you can study here http://www.southwales.ac.uk/opendays or take a look at our courses and their locations and book your place now. http://www.southwales.ac.uk/subjects

Hear about what you should be doing on Results Day and what you might be expecting during Freshers Week. We talk to the lady in charge of Admissions, Sue Gemmill and we also advise on what you should be bringing with you when you arrive for the start of term at Brunel. We talk to Eoin Lally about his Clearing experience and ex-SU President Jatin Patel. We also hear from Katy Jenkins and Adam Sumar Tarmohamed. We're Out And About around the Student Union and we talk to Sam Smith on the SU Reception. Postal Address for Enquiries: Course Enquiries Office Marketing Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH Telephone Number for Enquiries: 01895 265599 Telephone Number for Clearing Hotline Number 01895 272273 Links http://www.brunel.ac.uk http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/ug/fees/budgettips Email: podcast@brunel.ac.uk Presented by: Adam Larking of LittleSmasher.com The Announcer: Amanda Bennett of Brunel University Additional student voices: Katy Jenkins and Adam Sumar Tarmohamed. Music by Cagey House Music, Ashley Keeler and LittleSmasher.com

Hear about what you should be doing on Results Day and what you might be expecting during Freshers Week. We talk to the lady in charge of Admissions, Sue Gemmill and we also advise on what you should be bringing with you when you arrive for the start of term at Brunel. We talk to Eoin Lally about his Clearing experience and ex-SU President Jatin Patel. We also hear from Katy Jenkins and Adam Sumar Tarmohamed. We're Out And About around the Student Union and we talk to Sam Smith on the SU Reception. Postal Address for Enquiries: Course Enquiries Office Marketing Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH Telephone Number for Enquiries: 01895 265599 Telephone Number for Clearing Hotline Number 01895 272273 Links http://www.brunel.ac.uk http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/ug/fees/budgettips Email: podcast@brunel.ac.uk Presented by: Adam Larking of LittleSmasher.com The Announcer: Amanda Bennett of Brunel University Additional student voices: Katy Jenkins and Adam Sumar Tarmohamed. Music by Cagey House Music, Ashley Keeler and LittleSmasher.com