Academic Skills support

The Academic Skills team can help you develop techniques to learn effectively, produce your assignments and improve your work to reach your full potential.

How can we help you?

• Online guides for specific subject areas or academic skills topics
• Taught workshops 
• One-to-one appointments

Find out more about the Library and how the Academic Skills team can help you in our video below.

Team Manager

Support for School of Digital, Technologies and Arts 

Support for School of Health, Science and Wellbeing

Support for School of Justice, Security and Sustainability

Support for Institute of Education

Cross team support

Support for Staffordshire University London

IT and Digital Capabilities Specialist

Library Systems and Research Support Specialist

Some of the areas we can help you with include:

• Academic Writing
• Critical Writing
• Effective reading
• Paraphrasing
• Planning your work
• Numeracy
• Time management

Please note that we do not proofread your work for you, but can help you learn how to do this effectively.

Explore Academic Study Skills guides

Some of the areas we can help you with include:

• Finding and using library resources
• Research skills
• Developing a search strategy
• Understanding citing and referencing
• Using reference management tools
• Copyright

Explore the subject guides available for your area you are studying:

Some of the areas we can help you with include:

• Using Microsoft Office effectively
• Creating long documents in Word
• Using PowerPoint for presentations or academic posters
• Using Qualtrics survey software
• Using  LinkedIn Learning online video training
• Managing your files and using OneDrive