Learning Hub

• Academic Resilience: the key to overcoming setbacks:
  • Learn how to build up your resilience to help you cope with change and stress in your university years and beyond.
• Critical self-reflection:
  • Reflecting helps you to develop your skills and see if they are effective. It can help you decide if there is a better way of doing it in the future.
• Growth Mindset: how to look at problems in a positive way:
  • Having a growth mindset means you might bounce back quickly from failure. It also makes you more likely to explore how you can get better at doing something.
• How to study well:
  • Learn what to expect from university study, including academic and personal skills that you need to develop and recognising how you learn best.
• Self-belief: thinking positively about yourself and your abilities:
  • Self-belief means that you should have enough self-confidence to change, but not over-estimate your abilities.Look at how to build your self-belief.
• Self-management of expectations:
  • Explore how to set clear expectations of what it is like to be in higher education. If your expectations and your reality are different then there is a gap that could widen and impact negatively on your academic success.
• Exams:
  • Top tips to help succeed with exams include: managing stress; looking after yourself; preparation; the day of the exam; and getting help.
• Time Management:
  • Learn how to plan effectively when studying at university as it can be difficult to balance all the things in life that demand your time and attention.

There are key support services available within the University which you will get to know throughout your time at University.  Have a look at the current students page, to explore what support there is for you during your studies. This will include:

• Finance support
• Disability support
• Student Welfare Support
• Mental health and counselling
• International support
• Student Futures
• Digital Futures (IT)

You can also access independent support and advice from the Students' Union. 

We understand that things may not go to plan during your studies. You might want to change course, interrupt your studies or even withdraw.

Before you make any of those decisions, ensure you speak with and get support from key people within the University. This could be from your personal tutor, module tutor or careers adviser. 

The Students' Union have academic advisers who can give students free, impartial and confidential advice. This can include advice regarding academic misconduct, complaints and fitness to practice.