Contact Us
Contact your Business & Law academic skills tutors: bal-ast@port.ac.uk
Postgraduate Students
Helen Frost
Dr Deborah Hicks- Clarke
Level 4/First Year Undergraduate Students
Level 5/Second Year Undergraduate Students
Level 6/Final Year Undergraduate Students
Degree Apprentices & Distance Learning
Part-time & Top-up courses
Karen Findon
To contact or make an appointment with Karen, please email bal-ast@port.ac.uk
Check your Timetable and Moodle Course Page for information on Workshops and Writing Retreats.
About us
We are the Academic Skills Tutors (AST) for the faculty and work closely with your course teams to ensure you develop and improve the skills you need to complete your academic assessments. You will often see us in your lectures and seminars where we aim to give you targeted advice for the assessments that you will be working on throughout the academic year.
We provide workshops and seminars to support your academic writing (essays, reports, dissertations), help you to manage your time and workload, provide advice about effective revision and exam techniques, give tips on delivering presentations and support you when you are working in groups. We can help you to use the feedback from your course teams more effectively.
We also offer one-to-one or small group tutorials and are able to offer advice on your written assessments before they are submitted.
If you struggle with procrastination, finding a quiet space to work or giving yourself time out of a busy schedule to study, try a Study Huddle or Writing Retreat.
Our website is full of resources created by us, for you, so keep checking back for our tips and advice.
See you soon! The AST team