Act Student Support Library
Apps to Help You Get Organised
Explore useful apps and digital tools that can help with planning, reminders, routines, deadlines and keeping university life organised.
Building Confidence After Graduation
An encouraging resource exploring how to rebuild confidence, recognise your strengths and navigate the uncertainty that can come with leaving university.
Creating an ADHD-Friendly Study Space
Practical ideas for creating a study environment that works with an ADHD brain, including managing distractions, movement, sensory needs and motivation.
Deadline Rescue – What to Do When You've Fallen Behind
A practical, judgement-free guide to working out what to prioritise, making a realistic recovery plan and taking the first step when deadlines have started piling up.
Digital Distractions – Making Your Phone Work For You
Learn how to reduce unhelpful digital distractions while turning your phone into a useful tool for focus, organisation, reminders and studying.
Executive Function: The Invisible Part of Studying
Explore executive functioning and how skills such as planning, starting tasks, working memory, organisation and time management can affect university study.
Finding Your Voice – Self-Advocacy & Self-Determination at University
Build confidence in communicating your needs, asking for reasonable adjustments, making informed choices and having a greater say in your university experience.
How to Start an Assignment When You Have No Idea Where to Start
A step-by-step resource for breaking through the dreaded blank-page feeling and turning an overwhelming assignment into smaller, manageable starting points.
How to Talk About Your Disability or Neurodivergence at Work
Explore whether, when and how you might talk about disability or neurodivergence in the workplace, including communicating needs and requesting reasonable adjustments.
Learning to Say No Without Feeling Guilty
A supportive activity exploring why saying no can feel difficult and how to protect your time, energy and wellbeing without feeling that you are letting others down.
Loneliness at University – Finding Your People
A compassionate look at university loneliness, with practical ideas for building connections, finding communities and developing a sense of belonging.
Mind Maps, Visual Thinking & Learning Differently
Discover visual approaches to organising ideas, understanding information, planning assignments and learning in ways that do not rely solely on traditional written notes.
Perfectionism & University – When Good Enough Really Is Good Enough
Explore how perfectionism can contribute to procrastination, anxiety and burnout, with strategies for recognising when your work is genuinely good enough.
Rest Is Productive Too
A reminder that rest is part of sustainable studying, exploring recovery, energy management and why taking time away from work is not the same as doing nothing.
Setting Boundaries at University
A practical guide to recognising your limits and setting healthy boundaries around studying, friendships, support, communication, time and energy.
Sleep, Study & Sanity
Explore the relationship between sleep, concentration, mood and learning, with realistic strategies for balancing university demands without sacrificing essential rest.
Social Battery: Knowing When You Need to Recharge
An activity for recognising what drains and restores your social energy and developing strategies to prevent overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout.
Special Interests Are Strengths
A strengths-based exploration of special interests and how they can support learning, motivation, confidence, connection, creativity and future employment.
Taking a Mental Health Day
A practical guide to recognising when you may need to step away, using a mental health day purposefully and returning to university responsibilities without unnecessary guilt.
Technology for Dyslexic Students
Explore assistive technology and everyday digital tools that can support reading, writing, note-taking, organisation and independent study for dyslexic students.
Turning Autistic Strengths Into Employability Skills
An activity helping autistic students recognise how their individual strengths, interests and ways of thinking can translate into valuable skills for employment.
Your Personal Wellbeing Plan
A guided activity for creating an individual wellbeing plan, identifying what helps you stay well, recognising early warning signs and deciding what support you may need.
Your University Wellbeing Toolkit
Build your own collection of practical strategies, resources and support options to draw upon when university life becomes stressful, overwhelming or difficult.