Key facts
network of advisory services, including the Student Life Centre, the Students’ Union Advice and Representation Centre, and counselling and learning support services
Student Support Unit for students with disabilities, mental health difficulties and specific learning difficulties
health centre, dentist and pharmacy on campus
nursery and pre-school facilities
facilities for worship
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.
- Students’ Union Advice and Representation Centre
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The Students’ Union Advice and Representation Centre provides confidential advice on a range of issues such as loans, accommodation, benefits or other day-to-day matters.
- Sussex Regional Access Centre
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The Sussex Regional Access Centre offers needs assessments and training on assistive technology to students with Disabled Students’ Allowances.
- Student Support Unit
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The Student Support Unit (SSU) offers advice and assistance both when you apply and while you are studying at Sussex. The SSU can help set up support for students with disabilities, mental health difficulties and additional learning needs. It can provide notetakers, support workers, mental health mentors and dyslexia tutors, and offers assessments for specific learning difficulties. The SSU can also advise on funding for additional support. For general enquiries, or to request a copy of the University’s Disability Statement, contact:
The Student Support Unit, Pevensey 1,
University of Sussex, Falmer,
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
T +44 (0)1273 877466,
E studentsupport@sussex.ac.uk - Student Counselling Services
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The staff at Student Counselling Services provide a confidential service to all Sussex students, including individual and group counselling, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy and stress management. Eating disorder and substance misuse programmes are also included in the range of interventions offered.
- Health and well-being
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We offer advice on issues such as sexual health, personal safety, and alcohol and drug abuse; promote general health and help you adjust to University life. Visit Student Life Centre: Health and well-being.
- Health care
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As well as an NHS dentist and a pharmacy on campus, we have a health centre that provides NHS care and is available to all students within the practice area, including students from overseas on full-time courses of six months or more.
There is also an NHS health centre in central Brighton, offering early morning, evening and weekend doctors’ appointments and a walk-in service. Open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, it offers patients convenience and flexibility.
- Childcare
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There is a nursery and pre-school on campus. You should apply at an early stage. Visit Children's facilities.
- Worship
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The Meeting House is the on-campus chaplaincy, with services spanning a range of denominations. The Jewish community shares its use. There is also a Muslim Student Centre and mosque on campus. Visit Religion and belief.
Anna’s student perspective
‘I have a permanent health condition that makes just getting around my local town difficult, so I knew I needed to choose an accessible campus university. In addition, I’d been delayed quite a few years in getting into Higher Education, so that made me both a mature and a disabled student – two things that some universities deal with better than others. Sussex has a reputation for great student support and I can now say that I definitely made the right choice.
‘Three years on and I've managed to make it through and come out with a first. All of this has only been possible because of the fantastic support of the Student Life Centre and the Director of Student Support in the School of Life Sciences. It's great to know that, if unforeseen things do happen, the Sussex staff will be there for you all the way.’
Anna Kingston
Biology graduate
Katy’s staff perspective
‘The Student Life Centre is a lively, positive place right at the heart of campus. My role involves welcoming students to the Centre and making sure they get directed to the right source of help. I also provide budgeting advice sessions, which students find very helpful.
‘The Centre is here to provide you with information and guidance about University procedures and what to do if you run into problems. We also offer advice if you have personal concerns or just want a chat about how things are going.
‘The Student Funding Team are also based in the Centre and manage hardship funds, scholarships and bursaries, and non-UK student-finance schemes (eg American loans).’
Katy Viflic
Information Co-ordinator, Student Life Centre, University of Sussex