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
Libraries
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

There are two wifi services at the University of Brighton: eduroam and UoB Visitor Wi-Fi.

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 wifi

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 app 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 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

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 Brighton (Falmer, Moulsecoomb and Varley Park)
Facilities at 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.

Libraries

Visitor access

Access to our libraries for reference purposes is available to members of the public (18 years or over), free of charge, no application required. This includes use of (but not borrowing of) our books, the use of non-bookable study spaces, and photocopying (subject to a charge).

Access to our electronic resources, including e-journals and e-books, and our computers (including laptop loans) is not available. Visitor access is from 8.30am – 5.30pm weekdays only.

Please email library@brighton.ac.uk to find out more. Further information about our libraries is available.

Students in the Aldrich Library in Moulsecoomb

Borrowing books (external membership)

If you would like to borrow books then you can join as an external member.

University of Brighton graduates and retired staff: free access, renewable annually.
Other external members: £70 per year

Staff and students from other universities may be able to join for free via the SCONUL Access reciprocal scheme. This scheme is currently suspended nationally, but should be resuming later in the year.

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.

External membership 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.

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.

Should you be ineligible for membership, you may still use our libraries for reference purposes.

Please email library@brighton.ac.uk if you have any queries.

Galleries and Sallis Benney Theatre

Located in Brighton's cultural quarter of the city centre, just a few minutes walk from the seafront, Brighton CCA is the university's Centre for Contemporary Arts.

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. There are details on making a booking for cultural and academic events including screenings, theatre, music and dance, on the Brighton CCA website.

Galleries

Brighton CCA’s exhibition programme is based in the galleries of the Grand Parade Building. The 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.

Information

Find out more on the Brighton CCA website or follow us on social media:

58-67 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 0JY

brightoncca@brighton.ac.uk
01273 643010
www.brightoncca.art

The Brighton CCA is currently closed.

A crowd of people in the quad at Grand Parade

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.