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Brighton Student Skills Hub

The Brighton Student Skills Hub is here to help you have confidence in your skills and to achieve your full potential in your education, and your career.

The support offered by the Hub can be broken down into 4 main categories:

  • Academic writing support and development
  • Library and research skills
  • Employability skills
  • Maths and stats support

Academic writing support and development

There are different types and levels of academic writing skills support and development available. What’s right for you will depend on your experience so far. You can find out about the different types of support offered in the tabs below.

Writing Advisory Service

The Writing Advisory Service can provide personalised feedback on your written work throughout the year.

You can submit a piece of work to the Hub's experienced academic tutors, who will comment on the organisation and clarity of your ideas, academic style and frequent language mistakes. You can then improve your own writing by implementing their suggestions.

Find out more about the Writing Advisory Service.


I used the Writing Advisory Service in the second semester and I was really pleased. The tutor reviewed two of my reports, not just grammatically correcting them, but also giving me really good advice on how to improve structure and ways of expression.

Laura Clemente, Environmental Assessment and Management MSc

Academic skills support

The Hub's dedicated tutors can also support the development of your wider academic skills. This might be delivered through small group seminars, or you can book one-to-one sessions, to get personalised support.

Academic skills support the Hub can offer students:

  • One-to-one tutorials to support with assignments

Academic skills support the Hub can offer via course leaders:

  • Workshops to develop skills for academic writing and 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

Get in contact with the Hub's dedicated tutors on skillshub@brighton.ac.uk to book one-to-one support.

Foundation and level 4 students

We know that producing a piece of academic writing at university level can be a daunting prospect, if you have not done so before or if you are re-entering education after a break.

The Hub tutors offer foundation and level 4 students online, one-to-one tutorials, at key points in the academic year, to advise or help with academic writing and speaking skills. During your foundation or level 4 programme of study, look out for notifications in your inbox to book these sessions or to attend academic writing events.

You can also get in touch with the dedicated study skills tutor in your school, to discuss how the Hub can support you further.

Current foundation or level 4 students can email skillshub@brighton.ac.uk for more information.

School specific academic skills tutors

If you would like advice on the clarity, structure or style of your academic writing, then you can get in touch with the academic skills tutor linked to your school. To find out more about how they can support you, just send them an email.

School of Applied Sciences
Nancy Carter n.carter@brighton.ac.uk

School of Art and Media
Kim Pedersen k.e.pedersen@brighton.ac.uk

School of  Architecture, Technology and Engineering
Gary Hicks g.hicks@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 Sport and Health Sciences
Elaine Hills e.hills@brighton.ac.uk

Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Gary Hicks g.hicks@brighton.ac.uk

Develop your style and structure

This year, University of Brighton students can also benefit from additional writing support from two Royal Literary Fund Fellows – Ed Miller and Beth Harris, both published writers with extensive teaching experience.

The fellows can help students at all levels of study, undergraduate and postgraduate, to improve and even enjoy your writing. They are best placed to help if you are largely confident with the level of academic writing that you are producing, but you want additional guidance on how to improve the style and structure of your work. 

The fellows can work with you one-to-one, using their expertise in written language and communication, to help you develop your academic writing skills.

The sessions, conducted online, focus on your specific writing needs. Topics you might discuss include:

  • understanding the title
  • essay planning
  • structuring your argument
  • writing clearly
  • critical thinking
  • rewriting and editing.

Find out more about tutorials with Royal Literary Fund Fellows.

Students in the Aldrich Library in Moulsecoomb

Library and research skills

Use our skills guides to learn how to use the library as a researcher or talk with a subject specialist librarian.

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Employability skills

The Careers and Employability team can help you to use your Graduate Attributes to find and apply for, or create, your perfect job or further study course.

Students working in the concrete lab

Maths and stats

Discover a diverse range of online resources, as well as offering drop-in sessions for one-to-one support.

International students

The Brighton Student Skills Hub provides a comprehensive range of academic support for all current students, as mentioned in the tabs above.

If English is not your first language, the Hub also runs term time pre-sessional English language courses and summer pre-sessional programmes for students who want to improve their language skills before starting their degree. Successful completion of a pre-sessional English language programme guarantees your progression to most undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Brighton.

You can find out more about these pre-sessional courses on our International Students pages.

Personal support available

Personal academic tutors

Your personal academic tutor will help you to review your academic progress.

Declaring a disability, learning difficulty or health condition

Our learning support coordinators are based on all campuses and can offer support like a learning support plan.

Specific support

We can help if an impairment, illness or specific learning difficulty is affecting your studies and wellbeing.

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