Freshers' Special: Advice for new students from the Football Collective

Thousands of students will be starting university for the first time in the next few weeks. But, for many the transition from school and college to university will be fraught with worry. These worries initially surround how to make first impressions with new friends and tutors in a strange new world sometimes hundreds of miles away from home but they also encompass how to build productive, respectful and meaningful relationships with these people. Also, how do you use email and online communication effectively and respectively? But, there are other concerns that new students worry about: how do you get a balance between work and enjoying what should be a hugely transformative period of your life? How should you behave on social media, how should you project yourself and how can you use social media as part of your studies? And, on a day-to-day basis, the challenges can be huge. For example, how do you approach beginning to read academic texts and integrate them into your research journey? How do you plan and complete assessments? And, the six million dollar question: how can this work be integrated into getting work experience and placements and starting your transition into the job you really want. In this podcast Dr Joel Rookwood, course leader in Sport Business Management at the University of Central Lancashire speaks to fellow Football Collective members Dr Alex Culvin (University of Salford), PhD researcher Connor Penfold (Ulster University), Professor Peter Millward (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Dan Parnell (University of Liverpool) and Dr Paddy Hoey (Edge Hill University) about how to start university and how students might negotiate their way through their time in academia.