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15 June 2026 – GRIT

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You’re halfway through your exams, and you’re exhausted. You must find the strength and the energy – the GRIT – to keep going in…

08 June 2026 – Writing Exams with Confidence

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. It’s exam time, often a time of stress and tension. Next week we’ll give you some support in dealing with that stress and finding…

01 June 2026 – Sleep in Order to Learn

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. With the mid-year exams upon you, sleep is probably the last on your list of priorities at the moment. Let’s talk about that. Brain Science teaches…

25 May 2026 – Effective Study: Spaced Repetition

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. How’s it going with your studies? Have you been keeping to your schedule and using the pomodoro technique, as we discussed last week? Good…

18 May 2026 – Beating Procrastination

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Last week we talked about that big dark shadow, fear of failure. The first step to overcoming it, we said, is to face it. Name it…

11 May 2026 – Fear of Failure

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This week we’re talking deep stuff that few of us will acknowledge, even to ourselves, but most of us have experienced: fear of failure.…

04 May 2026 – Handling Information: Staying Safe Online

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We hear about misinformation and fake news every day. People lose money to scammers. It seems like you cannot trust anything or anybody. How…

27 April 2026 – Working with AI to Study more Effectively

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. If you have been using the section on study methods in GRAD, you will have come across the name of Dr Barbara Oakley. She’s…

20 April 2026 – Handling Information 2: Digital Literacy using AI

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We’re well into the academic year. Even those of you who had never met a computer before coming to university, know that computers and…

13 April 2026 – Handling Information 1: The Basics

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll talk about information in all shapes and sizes. We’ll talk about digital literacy. We’ll talk about AI…
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