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Academic and Digital Support
Here you will find useful directions to the variety of study support services available to you.
What is academic support?
Writing university essays, preparing for seminars, conducting research, analysing data, referencing your work. None of these come naturally to anyone, they are skills that need to be learned. Luckily your Academic and Digital Skills Team is here to help you master these skills. We are available online and in every campus library. You can book to see us or take part in any of our regular workshops and weekly drop-in sessions. We are ready to help you! The Academic and Digital Skills Team is made up of tutors and librarians across all 3 campuses, whose job it is to support you with your academic work.
An award winning team
The award-winning Academic and Digital Skills Team delivers a support service for all students at the university. Comprising librarians, academic skills tutors, administrators and student Digital Champions, we develop services and resources responding wherever there is a need for them. We work collaboratively in temporary teams with co-creators such as faculty academic staff, students and other university departments.
We are very proud of our awards, not as trophies to be displayed but as recognition of the service we provide our students at the recognition nationally and internationally, of the quality of that service for example:
As with any new activity academic work does not come easily. Nobody is born with the ability to drive a car or build a bridge for example so there is no reason to believe that anyone is born with the ability to think critically, argue from evidence or write in a structured formal way.
We learn by doing and through experience. During your time at university you will be expected to master a subject area but you will also be expected to develop the academic skills to make the best use of your newly acquired knowledge and insight. While it is your course tutors' role to provide you with subject specific support there are other tutors available to you whose role it is to help you develop your academic skill set.
It is entirely natural and very usual for students to lack confidence in things like...
... and generally thinking critically.
These skills will come to you as you practice them and there is a great deal of support available to you to help you build up your academic confidence. What we offer in the Academic and Digital Skills Team is a friendly and approachable service where you can be assisted in overcoming particular problems relating to the demands of academic study. Visit our Web Hub for more information and some helpful advice about studying more effectively
It's easy to make an appointment to see any of our Academic and Digital Skills Team. Just use our online booking system, pick a time and tutor and an appointment will be automatically generated for you. You will receive immediate confirmation via email.
Meet one-to-one with one of our Academic and Digital Skills Team and get help with academic skills and research for your coursework, essay or dissertation.
Andrew Sinclair, Mike Alsford, Jenny Spinks, Paul Brewer, Peter Kargbo, Julie Mundair, Sharon Perera (team manager)
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