Study Support
There is a range of support available to help you manage your time and study at university. These include:
- advice in your course handbook
- ASK Study Guide
- weekly study support sessions
Your course handbook
Most course handbooks include guidance on assignments. Contact your school office to get a copy.
ASK Study Guide
The online ASK Study Guide is on your studentcentral homepage. Go to the 'My Tools' menu. ASK Study Guide offers advice on:
- time management and organisation
- how to make the most of seminars and lectures
- reading and note-making
- preparing for exams
- tackling stress
- essay writing
- oral presentations
- group work and more.
- Weekly study sessions
Weekly group study support sessions are provided on each university site throughout the year. Each session lasts for 60 minutes and is led by a qualified learning support tutor. Topics include:
- Prepare for lectures and for seminars
- Improve your time management
- Make your reading more effective
- How to plan your essays / assignments
- How to structure your essays / assignments and use references / quotations
- Improve your oral presentations
- Effective group working
- How to revise and improve your exam performance
- Dissertations, reports and projects
Sessions for academic year 2009/10 are held on Wednesdays 1-2pm, UCH Room 2.30
Poster showing weekly topics here (pdf)
Find out more
For more information on study support email askstudyadvice@brighton.ac.uk or visit the ASK Study Guide on studentcentral.
Student Central
Studentcentral is a web-based learning environment that provides a personalised home page to help all students and staff manage their learning and teaching.
A resource for University of Brighton students, studentcentral allows contact with tutors, learning resources and support departments.
Studentcentral can be accessed from anywhere by going to http://studentcentral.brighton.ac.uk/. You will need a username and password to login, which is given to you on joining the university.