Study Skills

Study Skills provides a range of individually tailored, group-based, and self-access support designed to help you to get the most from your academic studies.

Individual writing appointments and study skills appointments are available through MS Teams 9-5 UK time, Monday - Friday. You are welcome to book an appointment of up to 50 minutes length to discuss written assignments, your approach to academic writing, or to study in general.

Individual maths and statistics appointments of between twenty to forty minutes length are also available through Teams. Support can be given with basic calculations, exercises, tutorial sheets, past exam papers, statistical packages (Excel and SPSS) and with calculations in safeMedicate.

Our Study Skills workshop programme runs from January to April. The series covers a variety of topics related to academic studies and writing, including exam preparation. All workshops will be delivered digitally through Blackboard Collaborate. The workshops are free, and places can be reserved online.

Online study skills resources are freely available on our website. They cover important aspects of academic study including how best to manage your time, the effective use of source material, revising for exams, note-taking, editing and much more.