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Academic Skills: Home

The special considerations deadline for most schools is Tuesday 14th June. Click here for guidance and forms or reach out to your personal academic tutor for a chat.

Academic Skills Hub information

The Academic Skills Hub offers an in-person, drop-in service to advise students on all aspects of Academic Skills, Writing and Maths & Statistics support in 20 minute slots. No appointment necessary.

The Academic Skills Hub is open from 10.00 – 16.00, Monday to Friday, and is located in room 2045 on Level 2 of the Hartley Library (Highfield Campus). Click for map.

Looking for Library Skills support?

The Library Research Skills support service is for all students, researchers and staff. You can reach the Research Skills Engagement team at libenqs@soton.ac.uk and the engagement librarians can help you with 

  • Finding information for your assignments Library chat
  • Citing and referencing 
  • Understanding plagiarism
  • Literature searching using specialist databases 
  • Developing your search strategies 
  • Measuring research impact Library appointment
  • Open Access 
  • Research data management 
  • Copyright and your thesis

Have you visited the Academic Skills Hub recently? Click here to fill out our short feedback form and help us improve our service!