The Specialist Support team offers individualised advice and guidance to students with any of the following characteristics:
- Care leaver and estranged students
- Student carers
- Trans & LGBTQ+ students
- Asylum-seeking students
- Mature students and student parents
- Students with experience of the criminal justice system
- Students from minoritised ethnicities, including Gypsy and Traveller communities.
- Students from military families
As well as 1-to-1 support, the Specialist Support team also run events and awareness-raising campaigns throughout the year. There are also a number of funding support options available to all students, such as the Student Support Fund and Alumni-funded Scholarships.