Academic Advising Videos
Please watch the following interviews of senior advisors, advisors and students and hear their thoughts and experience of academic advising at University of Manchester.
Please note that you need to be a member of staff or a student to view these videos. Each video will open once you click on the images, then once there you may have to log in using your University account using the login button as shown in image below:
The Importance of Academic Advising
Academics discuss the importance of advising for students in how they settle and flourish in their University life.
The role of an Academic Advisor
This video of three academics discussing the advising role
Benefits of Academic Advising to Students
This video interviews academics discussing the ways that students can benefit from academic advising.
Supporting and Signposting Students
Academics discuss the role of the advisor and how to use the one to one meetings effectively
Tracey Speak discuss the Role of a Senior Academic Advisor
Tracey Speak discusses how the role is important in supporting advisors
Why have Academic Advising?
This video introduced by Professor Richard Reece includes staff and students talking about the benefits for Academic Advising for them.
Jitesh Gajjar describes the challenges of being a senior academic advisor
Jitesh Gajjar describes how he tries to support staff and students in his role as a senior academic advisor.
About the Academic Advising Model
Lizzie Lewis discusses the model and how to structure the meetings really well.
Student Experience of Academic Advising
Three students discuss what academic advising means to them
Advising Students with Mental health issues – part one
This video is part one of two videos which discuss the approach you can take as an advisor to support students with mental health.
Advising Students with Mental health issues – part two
This video is part two of two videos which feature academics discussing how important listening and empathetic skills are in helping students with mental health issues
Empathising with Students
How to build an effective advising relationship with the students. More guidance on setting boundaries in the relationship will be given in later videos
