Thinking Critically with David Richardson, Sally Forrest and Alex Hudson - Success as a Student Podcast

University of Derby Skills Podcast

In this episode, Alex interviews three special guests to discuss how you can develop your critical thinking. Critical thinking is a skill that you already have a foundation in, the key is in learning to apply your critical thinking into practice. David Richardson discusses examples of how you already think critically, Sally Forrest explains methods that you can use for applying critical thinking to your secondary research and Alex Hudson advises on how you can be critical when writing your assignments.

Success as a Student is a new weekly podcast series hosted on the Derby Uni Library YouTube channel. In this series University of Derby Graduate of the Year Alexander Wood interviews successful students and staff about the skills that will help you find success. If you are interested in seeing episodes as they come out, subscribe to the Derby Uni Library YouTube channel.

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We run workshops that can be found on this calendar: https://libcal.derby.ac.uk/calendar/events/?cid=4256&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=4256&ct=33107&inc=0

Sally and the Academic Librarians run drop in clinics that can be found through this calendar: https://libcal.derby.ac.uk/calendar/events/?cid=4256&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=4256&ct=33108,33206,33109,33114&inc=0

Other relevant useful episodes:

Enterprise and Networking: https://youtu.be/YbjNJiFHIGc

Organisation: https://youtu.be/E6cHuYNF-PI

Creativity and Problem Solving: https://youtu.be/4PlAL93ykWA

Growth Mindset: https://youtu.be/6PDw51w9Du4

Are Geniuses born or made: https://youtu.be/YR6Xsg0LTPM