Your access to our facilities

There's a lot going on at the University of Brighton, and you don't need to go on a traditional course to take advantage.

As part of our commitment to widening access and participation, many of our events and facilities are open to local residents. So if you live near one of our campuses, why not come and get involved?

Learning for everyone
Wifi
Sport Brighton
Visiting the library, external membership and alumni services
Galleries and Sallis Benney Theatre
SouthCoast Conferences

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For questions about student-community relations.

Learning for everyone

The university offers a range of short courses and evening classes to help you further your career, progress to further study or simply enjoy yourself.

Professional and personal interest

Learning Opportunities

The University of Brighton hosts Learning Opportunities in the South East, which provides information and advice on education, skills and careers from all providers in the region. The service is available to all, and is particularly useful for adults either in work already or looking to return to work.

Sunny beach with people in deck chairs

Wifi

The main wifi service at the University of Brighton is eduroam

eduroam

The wifi service for students, staff and visitors from other educational institutions at the University of Brighton is eduroam. It provides secure high speed connectivity from all university buildings.

Connecting to eduroam

Select eduroam from the list of available networks on your device and then enter your eduroam username (in the form username@brighton.ac.uk - e.g. abc123@brighton.ac.uk) and enter your normal university password.
You should be asked to trust or accept our security certificate, which should be named “authenticate.brighton.ac.uk” anything else is not valid. If this is correct, then click continue/connect/trust/accept.
TIP: You can use the eduroam CAT website to get your device ready for eduroam before you arrive on campus.

Problems?

Detailed troubleshooting information is available (logged in users only).
eduroam is supported by the university's IT Service Desk (01273 644444 or servicedesk@brighton.ac.uk).
Visitors from other institutions should seek guidance from their home institutions if they are unable to log in.

If you use eduroam you are agreeing to the conditions of use of eduroam UK and the university Information Systems regulations.

UoB Visitor Wi-Fi

This is provided for guests and visitors from organisations that are not connected to eduroam. It offers limited, free connectivity provided by BT and support is provided by BT directly, rather than the university.

Using UoB Visitor Wi-Fi

Connect to UoB Visitor Wi-Fi from the available networks on your device.
Open your internet browser or click the pop up asking you to sign in, a welcome page will appear. You will not be asked for a username or password.
If this is your first time using the service, make sure you agree with the terms of service linked from that page.
Click the “Go Online” button and you will then see a page confirming you are connected.
The system will automatically re-connect your device for the next 24 hours after which you will see the welcome page again.
If you have any queries, or experience any issues, call free on 0800 022 3322 for assistance.

Halls IoT

This service is available only in university-owned halls of residence and is for TVs, smart speakers, games consoles and other wifi enabled devices that are not able to use eduroam. Devices must be registered via the portal at iot.brighton.ac.uk which is only available from within the university.

Instructions on how to use this service are available to logged in users and use of the service is subject to the university Information Systems regulations.

Sport Brighton

Whether you want to improve your level of fitness, compete in competitive sports, have fun with your friends or gain additional coaching qualifications, we can help.

Facilities at Falmer, Moulsecoomb and Eastbourne

The Eastbourne campus has a special membership option for people over 60, which offers exclusive classes, pool and gym times as well as other health and wellbeing initiatives.

The gym also offers general class timetables for local residents of all ages.

Visiting the library, external membership and alumni services

There are a range of services available to those not currently members of the University of Brighton. Please see details below if you wish to visit our libraries as a member of the public, as a SCONUL member or as a University of Brighton alumni.

Visitor access

External library membership is required to visit and have access to University of Brighton Libraries, please see external membership tab for further information.

Students in the Aldrich Library in Moulsecoomb

SCONUL access

Staff and students from other universities may be able to join for free via the SCONUL Access scheme.

If your application is approved via SCONUL Access you will need to complete a University of Brighton (UoB) library membership application form and email this to library@brighton.ac.uk.

External membership including visitor access

External membership cost: £20 per year.

External membership is for over 18s only and entitles you to borrow six books, for three weeks at a time (long loan category only), from any of our libraries. Loans will be automatically renewed if not required by another borrower. Libraries and non-bookable library study spaces can be accessed by externals members during vacation opening hours and in term time between the hours of 08.30 – 20.00 Monday to Friday and 12.00 -16.00 at weekends. The University of Brighton external library membership card will need to be shown to access libraries.

Our libraries specialise in particular subjects so we recommend you search our library catalogue to find out which library holds the books you are interested in and on your application form request to collect your membership card from that site.

Please email the application form to library@brighton.ac.uk and you will be contacted once your library card is ready for collection.

Students on Access to Higher Education courses at colleges in the LASER Learning Awards Access Validating Agency are entitled to free membership for the duration of their course.

Alumni and retired staff

University of Brighton graduates and retired staff are entitled to free library access, renewable annually.

External membership allows you to reserve and borrow up to six books for three weeks at a time. Due to licensing reasons online resources are not accessible to external library members. Libraries and non-bookable library study spaces can be accessed by external members during vacation opening hours and in term time between the hours of 08.30 – 20.00 Monday to Friday and 12.00 -16.00 at weekends. The University of Brighton external library membership card will need to be shown if entering libraries after 17.30 Monday – Friday and at weekends.

To apply please complete an alumni application form and email it to library@brighton.ac.uk.

Galleries and Sallis Benney Theatre

Located in Brighton's cultural quarter of the city centre, the gallery and theatre are just a few minutes walk from the seafront. Free and open to all, we host world class exhibitions, projects, commissions and research by international emerging and established artists alongside our graduate shows.

Hiring the theatre spaces

You can hire the Sallis Benney Theatre as well as a number of informal reception and meeting spaces. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss using our spaces for your event.

Galleries

The gallery exhibition programme includes a range of presentations from a curated series of exhibitions throughout the year to artists’ projects university research alongside and the annual degree shows. The programme is by invitation only and we are not able to respond to unsolicited proposals.

SouthCoast Conferences

SouthCoast Conferences can offer you an unrivalled range of conference and event facilities in Sussex. The University of Brighton has dedicated year-round modern facilities in Brighton and Eastbourne.

Find out more about our meetings and conference facilities.