Enhance Your Skills

Our Support

The Academic Skills Team can support you in developing your academic skills to help you understand university-level learning and assessment, and to support you in fulfilling your potential in your degree programme and beyond.​

There are many ways for you to access support and advice on developing the information, academic, and study skills you need for every stage of your studies. Curated collections of resources tailored to the structure of the academic year, regular Your Skills workshops as well as access to individual support at our Drop-in sessions across campus and bookable one-to-one tutorials with an Academic Skills tutor.

What we can help with:

• Academic and research skills
  critical thinking, revision and exam technique, time management, reading and note-taking, planning and structuring your work​​
• Assessment and feedback
  understanding your assignment brief, interpreting essay questions, marking criteria and expectations, using feedback to improve​
• Academic writing
  academic language and style, finding your voice, the writing process from first draft to final edit

Teaching support

We also deliver embedded teaching and can provide additional Canvas resources.  For more information and an overview the topics we can cover please see our embedded teaching provision.

Academic Skills Kit

Our online resources on the Academic Skills Kit cover a range of topics and enable you practice your academic skills and apply them to your own context at your own pace.  Explore our curated collections of resources tailored to the structure of the academic year or check out our most common support topic resources in the carousel below.

Common Support Topics

Your Skills programme

Your Skills is an open programme that offers a holistic range of workshops on all aspects of academic and study skills. From assignment planning to feedback, searching for information to referencing, we have sessions running throughout the year, with in-person and synchronous online options, allowing you to develop your skills in a way that suits you. ​

Click on the title of an event to sign up or visit the events calendar to see all the events running this month. You can also subscribe to the events calendar so you don’t miss out.

Find out more about Your Skills, view the full calendar and session resources.

One-to-one Support

We encourage you to explore our ASK resources and Your Skills workshops covering a wide range of common concerns students may encounter.  If you still have queries or require further support you can speak to the team at our open drop-ins or by booking an appointment.

Drop-Ins and Tea at 3

If you have a quick query, you are welcome to attend our drop-ins across campus, allowing you to meet the team in person, access quick guidance, and resources.  There is no need to book to attend our drop-ins and you can attend as many as you like.  We also run regular Tea at 3 events in the Academic Skills Hub in the Philip Robinson Library.

Bookable appointments

We have a limited number of bookable slots where you can discuss more complex queries with one of the team, either in person or online. Our appointments are designed for you to develop your skills so that you can apply these in your own context and our tutors will work with you to identify appropriate strategies.

An Academic Skills one-to-one lasts for up to 50 minutes, and gives you the opportunity to discuss issues and queries related to your studies and learning, from research planning and time management to revision, drafting and editing your writing.

FAQ: How many one-to-one appointments can I have?