Student Administration and Services
Series associated with Student Administration and Services
How to Find Your People
Introducing CBT for low mood and depression
Orientation for New Students at Oxford
Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
Preparing for your Undergraduate Time Abroad
Stress and Anxiety
Switching Hats
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | From neuroscience to data science: shifting perspectives with Dr Aleksandar Ivanov | Aleksandar began his PhD in neuroscience but soon discovered that experimental science wasn’t the right fit - so he made the leap into data science. Curious about the company he’s working for and the sector as a whole? Listen to find out more! | Aleksandar Ivanov, Linus Milinski, Chiara Toschi, Thomas Nicol | 17 Nov 2025 | |
| 32 | Bringing history to life: the unique work of an archivist with Dr. Alexa Frost | Interested in uncovering the past and keeping history alive? Join us to explore the unique role of archivists and learn how to prepare for a career in this fascinating field of work. | Alexa Frost, Linus Milinski, Chiara Toschi, Thomas Nicol | 10 Nov 2025 | |
| 31 | What the recruiter really thinks: Dr Holly Reeve on hiring decisions and team building | We continued our chat with Dr Holly Reeve, this time asking her about her role as staff recruiter for her company. What skills does she look for? And how can an academic experience help you to land a job? | Holly Reeve, Linus Milinski, Chiara Toschi, Thomas Nicol | 03 Nov 2025 | |
| 30 | How I became a CEO: a chat on career goals and achievements with Dr Holly Reeve | Where does the journey to becoming a CEO begin? Dr Holly Reeve looks back at her career and shares the path that led her to start and lead her own company. | Holly Reeve, Linus Milinski, Chiara Toschi, Thomas Nicol | 28 Oct 2025 | |
| 29 | What is it like to be a careers advisor? A conversation with Dr Susan Black | Susan was a post-doctoral researcher in biochemistry, before she decided to change gears and go into the career advisory sector. Curious about the move? Look no further! Tune in for all the tips, insights, and a fun peek into the world of career advice. | Linus Milinksi, Tom Nicol, Susan Black, Sara Falcone | 22 Oct 2025 | |
| 28 | Episode 3 - Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness | Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 27 | Episode 2 - Finding your people | Looking for friends and breaking the ice | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 26 | Episode 1 - Friends | What do we mean by ‘friends’ and what might impact the size and composition of our friendship group? | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 25 | Switching Hats: Introduction | Welcome to Switching Hats, a podcast all about career transitions from academia to other exciting sectors. Meet the hosts and learn what’s coming up in this new series! | Thomas Nicol, Linus Milinski, Chiara Toschi | 11 Sep 2025 | |
| 24 | Oxford University Guided Audio Tour | 'Know Your Oxford' is an audio walking tour of the city of Oxford, beginning at historic Carfax Tower and ending at Magdalen Bridge. | Alex Beukers | 12 Jun 2025 | |
| 23 | Episode 6 – Taking the long view | This podcast encourages you to think about the bigger picture to help you to get some perspective on any stress and anxiety you might currently be experiencing, and includes drawing up a plan for how to feel less stressed and anxious in the future. | Elizabeth Edginton | 15 Jan 2025 | |
| 22 | Episode 5 – How understanding what’s going on in our bodies, brains, and minds can help us to counteract stress and anxiety | This podcast considers how an awareness of what is going on in our bodies, brains, and minds from a physiological and neurological perspective can help us to counteract stress and anxiety, and includes ten practical strategies that can help. | Elizabeth Edginton | 14 Jan 2025 | |
| 21 | Episode 4 – How can understanding our early childhood development help when we feel anxious now? | This podcast focuses on how an awareness of child development and our early childhood experiences can help us to explore and start to understand our current anxieties. | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Jan 2025 | |
| 20 | Episode 3 – Anxiety | This podcast investigates anxiety from a medical and a psychodynamic perspective, including formal diagnoses and other ways of categorising anxiety, plus an exercise on identifying potential causes of underlying anxiety. | Elizabeth Edginton | 12 Jan 2025 | |
| 19 | Episode 2 – Stress | This podcast focuses on different kinds of stress: helpful and unhelpful stress, acute and chronic stress, and macro and micro-stress, and offers a practical way in which you can start to get some control back over any stress you might be experiencing. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Jan 2025 | |
| 18 | Episode 1 – Introduction | This first podcast defines stress and anxiety, explores common causes of stress and anxiety amongst the student community at the University of Oxford, and outlines key signs and symptoms to look out for. | Elizabeth Edginton | 10 Jan 2025 | |
| 17 | Part III – Getting Organised for Your Time Abroad (And Coming Home Afterwards) | In this third podcast, you’ll be asked to do a bit of contingency planning in preparation for your time abroad and coming home afterwards. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 16 | Part II – Preparing for Culture Shock | This second podcast encourages you to think about the different stages of culture shock and some of the potential difficulties you might experience. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 15 | Part 1 – Reflecting on Previous Experiences of Transition and Change | The aim of this first podcast is to help you to begin to reflect on some of your thoughts and feelings about your time abroad as an Oxford undergraduate. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 14 | 6: Self-Criticism | This sixth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on self-criticism. It looks at why we can be so critical of ourselves and when this can become a problem, and introduces three tips and tools to help you deal with unhelpful self-criticism. | Jonathan Totman | 21 Apr 2022 | |
| 13 | 5: Ten Tips for Coping in a Crisis | This fifth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on those times when you’re feeling most desperate, hopeless or overwhelmed, offering some practical suggestions for how to cope and look after yourself during a mental health crisis. | Jonathan Totman | 07 Feb 2022 | |
| 12 | 4: A Tool for Dealing with Worry and Rumination | This fourth podcast focuses on two patterns of thinking that often come with low mood and depression: worry and rumination. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 11 | 3: Rules for living (and how to break them) | This third podcast focuses on the implicit “rules” affecting how you think and behave, helping you to spot when they’re serving you well and when they might be overly rigid or exacting. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 10 | 2: Six troublesome thoughts and how to respond | This second CBT podcast focuses on the "C" of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), looking at ways in which low mood and depression can affect your thinking and introducing the key cognitive techniques of thought monitoring and thought challenging. | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 9 | 1: Doing more of what matters to you | This first episode on CBT looks at some of the ways in which low mood and depression can manifest in students, and introduces a central cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategy known as "behavioural activation". | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 8 | Academic Essentials (Postgraduate) | An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new postgraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. | Allison D'Ambrosia, James Tibbert | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 7 | Academic Essentials (Undergraduate) | An introduction to academic life at Oxford specifically for new undergraduate students with advice about how to navigate the demands of your course. | Teodora Musatoiu, Liam Arbuthnot | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 6 | Social Essentials | How to make the most of your social experience at the University, including information about joining student clubs, college life, University sports, Freshers’ Fair, transport and day-to-day life in the city of Oxford. | Joe Inwood, Toni Adenle | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 5 What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. | How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. | How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia. | Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro | 22 May 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 2 Failure and Other People | Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | 1 The Feeling of Failure | What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |