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Skills Centre

Drop-ins, courses, online resources and 1:1 tutorials to help you succeed in your studies and beyond.

Skills development that fits flexibly around your timetable

Enhance your academic and career prospects through our workshops, courses, self-access resources, tutorials and drop-in sessions. Master academic and study skills, digital and GenAI, maths and statistics, languages, and essential workplace skills.


Academic Skills

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Part of the Skills Centre, we provide digital and academic skills support to all students.

Foreign Languages

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We offer courses throughout the academic year to build your language skills, develop your intercultural competence, and maximise your career prospects.

Developing digital skills

Access our online resources at a time and a pace that suits you, to develop the digital skills you need in your studies and employment.


Employability and Student Success


The Skills Centre is an integral part of the Employability and Student Success directorate. We work closely with colleagues in Careers, placements, and Enterprise to ensure all students are given the best opportunity to fulfil their potential at university and beyond.

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Academic & Employability Skills blog

Tips, reflections, and advice from our staff to help you develop your academic and employability skills. We've picked some of our favourites here - click the button to read everything.


Critical thinking is highly valued by employers, yet many graduates lack it in the workplace. This blog explores practical ways to think more critically at work

Starting an assignment can feel surprisingly difficult, particularly if you are worried about getting it right first time.

Creativity takes many forms. Even if you’re not writing poetry, assignments require creativity through analysis, ideas and expression, not just memorising facts

From the 2026/27 academic year, assessment briefs and related materials will tell you clearly whether a piece of work is open lane or closed lane.

Workplace resilience doesn’t start on your first day of work. It’s built at university, where the foundations for handling professional challenges begin.

Sustainability is important for you, as it is for all of us, personally, professionally and culturally.

Unihub


Unihub is your one-stop-shop for everything you need to develop your study and employability skills, and discover opportunities to put those skills to the test. Use MySkills to find and book the right skills development opportunities for you, My Employability Profile to show employers what you've done, and MyFuture to find vacancies and work experience opportunities.

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What's new

Read our latest announcements and updates on our services.


Upcoming events

Join us at our upcoming workshops and focus groups.


Open to all students, this series will equip you with fundamental public speaking skills.

About us

The Skills Centre is overseen by Helen Stringer, Director of Employability & Student Success.

Our Heads of Teams are:

  • David Busby, Head of Digital & Academic Skills
  • Dr Emma Cliffe, Head of the Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
  • Claire Charlemagne, Head of Languages

Contact us

If you have any questions about skills development opportunities, please get in touch via email.