Students at Oxford will need to build their academic skills along with their subject knowledge during their degrees. Univ’s Academic Development and Mentoring (AcaDeMe) Scheme helps equip undergraduate and taught-postgraduate (PGT) students with the academic skills that they will need to succeed in their courses at Oxford. AcaDeMe can help students hone their skills in areas including:
- Managing time and workloads
- Writing essays
- Planning theses and extended projects
- Revising for exams
- Taking notes from readings, lectures, and tutorials
- Accessing library resources
- Researching in libraries and archives
- Citing correctly
- …and much more.
The scheme is run by the Lecturer in Academic Skills and a team of Academic Skills Mentors, who provide support through four main strands:
- Sessions in welcome week that all new undergraduate and PGT students attend
- Open workshops held throughout the year that are available to all Univ undergraduates and PGTs
- Individual one-to-one mentoring on a self- or tutor-referral basis
- Short, accessible online resources for students on a wide range of academic skills topics.
Univ students can find details of the scheme and its provision online, here
Meet the Team:
Dr Georgina Bartlett
Lecturer in Academic Skills
Georgina is a music historian by training who completed her doctorate at St Hugh’s College, Oxford researching the intersections between stage music and street song in London around the turn of the nineteenth century. She has lectured at Oxford’s Faculty of Music, held a Junior Teaching Fellowship at the Ashmolean Museum, and was the Organising Tutor in Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford. She has tutored extensively at the university and has also worked with sixth-form students, teaching them the research and study skills they will need to succeed at university.
Dr Alexandra Hibble
Academic Skills Mentor
Alix completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology at St. John’s College, investigating visual pathways for human motion perception. She currently supports students in their academic skills at a few colleges, and also teaches psychology. She provides support across all subject areas, focusing on topics such as procrastination and time management, revision and exam techniques, essay and dissertation writing.
Petros Spanou
Academic Skills Mentor
Petros completed his DPhil in History at Balliol College, and is currently teaching across the university. As an Academic Skills Mentor in the Humanities at Univ, he offers individual sessions and seminar teaching on essay-writing, note-taking, reading, and revision techniques.
Anna Cook
Academic Skills Mentor
Anna is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Her work aims to determine how memories are encoded in the brain, using the fruit Drosophila melanogaster as a model. During her PhD in Canada, Anna taught on biology and neuroscience courses, and helped students with scientific writing. At Univ, she is looking forward to supporting students with a range of academic skills.