- NHS medical and dental care on campus
- student advisors give help on a range of issues
- disability support and counselling services available to all students
- childcare facilities on campus for children up to five years old
- space to worship on campus for those of every faith
- for more information, visit Health and Wellbeing
- Student Life Centre
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The Student Life Centre offers information, advice and guidance on a broad range of subjects related to student welfare. Our aim is to help you to gain the best university experience you can by ensuring that you get appropriate support. We have a drop-in desk open all week, and Student Life Advisor appointments provide private, supportive space to discuss your situation and to help you consider the best way forward. We can help you with:
- personal concerns affecting study progress or well-being
- money and funding including scholarships, bursaries, hardship funds and budgeting
- finding support to improve academic performance
- understanding University systems and regulations
- referrals to other professional services on campus.
If you don't know who to talk to or who to ask, start at the Student Life Centre. We are open Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
- Health services
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Health facilities on the Sussex campus include a dentist offering National Health Service (NHS) treatment (T +44 (0)1273 605555) and a pharmacy offering a prescription service and over-the-counter medicines for treating minor ailments. A health centre provides NHS care and is available to all Sussex students in the practice area, including students from overseas who are on a full-time course of six months or more. For more information about the Health Centre, contact T +44 (0)1273 249049, or visit Health Centre at the University of Sussex.
There is also an NHS health centre located in central Brighton, offering early morning, evening and weekend doctors' appointments and a walkin service. It is open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week and offers patients convenience and flexibility about when they can see a doctor. Visit Brighton Station Health Centre.
- Dyslexia, disability and mental health support
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The Student Support Unit offers advice and support to all disabled students, including those with specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or ADHD, and students with mental health difficulties. The Unit is the main point of contact for any student with an impairment who requires additional support. For more information, contact the SSU:
T +44 (0)1273 877466
E studentsupport@sussex.ac.ukWe welcome applications from students with disabilities, mental health difficulties and specific learning difficulties. Please refer to Our admissions policy.
- University Counselling Service
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Staff at the University Counselling Services (UCS) provide a free and confidential counselling service for all Sussex students. Issues may range from academic difficulties to emotional, sexual, family, and mental health concerns, as these may arise during the general course of student life.
Everyone contacting UCS is offered an initial 30-minute interview at which issues and therapy options are discussed. Individual and group counselling, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy, eating disorder and substance misuse programmes, are included in the range of interventions offered.
Workshops on stress management, depression and assertiveness run regularly throughout the year. For more information, contact:
T +44 (0)1273 678156
E counsellingreception@sussex.ac.uk - Students' Union
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The Students' Union is an independent, representative organisation run for students by students. Students' Union officers, who are elected from the student body each year, make sure there is student representation throughout the University community. The Union also has strong links with the local community and media and, through the National Union of Students, with regional and Governmental bodies.
The Union and the University jointly administer the student representative scheme, which elects a student from every academic department to make sure all students' views are taken into account.
The Union currently has dedicated elected officer positions for both taught and research postgraduate students. In addition, the Union includes a postgraduate association, a representative body run by and for postgraduate students.
For more information about the Union, visit Campus life.
- Advice and representation
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Staff at the Students' Union Advice and Representation Centre provide specialist, confidential, independent advice and advocacy on a range of issues such as funding problems, benefits/tax credits entitlement, housing, academic matters and complaints. They can provide ongoing support and representation.
- Support for international students
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Our international student support staff can help you learn about different cultures and experience the British way of life. For information about how we can support our international students on any issue from immigration to study skills, visit International students.
- Childcare facilities
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There is a nursery and pre-school on campus. Older children living on campus mostly attend nearby schools. Anyone dependent on placing children in either the nursery or the pre-school is advised to apply at an early stage.
The University also runs a number of social events each year for families of international students. For more information, visit Childcare.
- Facilities for worship
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Sussex has one of the most versatile and architecturally-unique university chaplaincy centres in the country. Known as the Meeting House, this distinctive circular building has a kaleidoscopic upstairs chapel with bright coloured-glass windows, which is used for worship, recitals and concerts throughout the week.
Services draw on different traditions of Christian spirituality, with 10 chaplains from a range of denominations. Feel free to make an appointment via the Meeting House Secretary on:
T +44 (0)1273 678217
E j.s.thorogood@sussex.ac.ukThe lower floor houses a social centre, which hosts lectures and meetings, and a quiet room for when you need space to gather your thoughts. The chapel also offers hospitality to the Tai Chi community.
The Jewish community has three part-time chaplains and shares the use of the Meeting House. There are also four synagogues in Brighton & Hove.
A Muslim Prayer Room and mosque is in Falmer House on campus, and there are three further mosques in Brighton & Hove.