Academic skills

Develop your academic skills supported by a dedicated tutor. The Centre for Academic English Language Development (CAELD) has put together a team across all academic subjects to help work on your skills in workshops and small group seminars, or you can book some one-to-one time to go over a particular area.

Academic writing and skills development

  • Workshops to develop skills for academic writing or presentations
  • Small group seminars on specific areas, such as developing paragraphs, cohesion and coherence, incorporating sources or academic style and developing criticality.
  • Writing groups to facilitate peer review and develop skills collaboratively

Academic writing and skills support 

  • Workshops to address areas of difficulty  
  • One-to-one tutorials to support students with assignments

Support for first year students

Foundation and level 4 (generally year 1) students are offered online, one-to-one tutorials with a tutor from CAELD to advise or help with your academic writing and speaking skills. 

Sessions are held throughout the year – look for notifications in your inbox or contact LearnEnglish@brighton.ac.uk.

Get in touch with the CAELD dedicated tutor in your subject area to discuss how we can support you. Just drop them an email. 

School of Art and Media: 

Kim Pederson k.e.pederson@brighton.ac.uk

School of Business and Law: 

Louise Roche c.l.roche@brighton.ac.uk

School of Education: 

Ailsa Glen a.glen@brighton.ac.uk

School of Humanities and Social Sciences: 

Theresa Clementson t.clementson@brighton.ac.uk

School of Applied Sciences: 

Nancy Carter n.carter@brighton.ac.uk

School of Sport and Health Sciences: 

Elaine Hills e.hills@brighton.ac.uk

School of  Architecture, Technology and Engineering. Plus the Brighton and Sussex Medical School: 

Gary Hicks g.hicks@brighton.ac.uk

Meet the team