Specialist mentoring is high specialist, specifically tailored, one-to-one support which helps students address the barriers to learning created by a particular impairment.

This support is primarily provided for students with mental-health conditions or autism spectrum conditions.

This support can address a range of challenges, such as:

• managing change and difficult emotions

• dealing with challenging social situations

• developing social and communication skills

• clarifying course expectations

• having a healthy study/life balance

• accessing academic support and guidance

• managing course requirements (e.g. speaking in seminars, giving presentations)

• advising on quiet (low sensory) study spaces on campus

• any other issues that students bring to the sessions

Study Skills Support is to help students identify the academic issues that affect them and identify strategies for dealing with them. 

It is important to note that this is not a proofreading or text checking service. The aim of the study skills tutor is ensure students academic skills are at the required standard for university. The focus, therefore, is on the transfer of skills.

Areas of support include:

• Time management and organisational skills

• Efficient strategies for reading academic texts

• Note taking from texts, hand-outs, and in lectures

• Research skills

• Mind mapping and planning techniques

• Proof reading strategies

• Approaching written assignments

• Memory techniques and strategies

• Revision methods

• Analysing exam/essay questions