Resources

Academic skills

Develop the skills to write clearly, effectively and confidently across a variety of academic assignments.

Find on-demand tutorials and resources to help you develop the research and information skills needed for academic success, including guidance on finding high-quality sources, searching databases effectively and referencing accurately.

Academic business reports

Strengthen your academic business report writing. This interactive resource will help you write and structure academic business reports.

Academic skills reading list

This reading list covers key academic skills texts, including critical thinking, exam skills and writing skills.

Essay writing

Build your confidence in essay writing. This 15-minute online course explores practical techniques for planning, structuring and writing effective essays.

Essay writing for exams

Explore practical techniques for understanding questions, planning and structuring your answers and managing the different stages of an exam effectively.

How to reference 

This tutorial is made-up of short, self-contained topics, which you can explore and revisit at any time. Simply launch the website and browse your referencing style.

It includes content on what referencing is and why it matters, how to avoid plagiarism, how to insert citations into your text and what information you need to document in order to reference.

How to search for information 

Discover how to efficiently find, evaluate and stay updated with the best scholarly resources using your university library's powerful tools. This course will equip you with essential skills to construct precise search strategies, master advanced search techniques, and leverage citation networks and alerts. 

How to use GenAI at University 

This course provides a simple explanation of what AI is and explores some of the AI tools you will likely come across during your studies. It examines how it can be used both effectively and ethically during your time here at University. 

Note taking

The Note Taking course introduces practical strategies and tools to help learners capture, organise and use information more effectively. This course will explore a range of note taking methods, including linear and visual. It also covers techniques for organising notes, reviewing information efficiently and using note taking to support study, research, and professional work. 

STEM writing

These two interactive resources will guide you through the key skills for writing effective lab and engineering reports.

Writing the literature review

Develop your literature review writing skills with this interactive resource, offering practical tips for writing clearly and effectively.

Maths & statistics

Maths and statistics support

The Mathematics Learning Support centre offers a wide range of resources for students to take advantage of within the centre itself, for example textbooks, leaflets and workbooks and online.

Mathematics Learning Support centre - resources

Wellbeing

Coping with stress

As a university student, stress is something which you might be feeling often. Take a look at some ways to deal with stress.

Develop some positive coping strategies by watching the stressbusting video.

Coping with stress - tips

Ask a student

If you are a current student at any stage in your Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é journey, you can use our Ask A Student service to get a student perspective on your questions.

Lifting mood and motivation

This interactive resource provides tips to help increase your motivation and help improve your mood.

Managing anxiety 

Feeling Anxious about your exams is normal, especially if you feel under pressure from those around you such as family.

The managing anxiety tips can help you to control your exam anxiety. The Learn resource explores techniques to help you manage anxiety.

Managing exam anxiety - tips

Procrastination

An introduction to procrastination with some practical strategies to move from being a procrastinator to a doer.

Tellmi

You can access free digital mental health support, 365 days a year through the Tellmi app.

Sleep smarter

This online resource provides useful techniques for restful nights and productive days.

Study success

Confidence and resilience

Build your resilience and communicate with confidence using these online resources.

Presentation skills

These resources are designed to help you build the confidence, clarity and structure you need to deliver engaging and effective presentations. 

Procrastination and perfectionism

Use these online resources to discover:

  • what you procrastinate about,
  • reasons for procrastination,
  • some practical strategies to stop procrastination
  • and perfectionsim behaviours. 

Time Management

How good is your time management? Managing your time effectively as a student is integral to your success. Here are some resources to help you manage and organise your time.