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We want you to have a life-enhancing student experience at Imperial. Whether you're looking for information or seeking advice, you're in the right place to find out more about the wellbeing support options available to you as a postgraduate taught or research student in the Faculty of Medicine.

Where can I access support?

There are many avenues of support available - reach out if you need to. Find out who you can talk to and how to contact them via the information below:

Postgraduate support

Departmental support

There are different channels of support available within your department, including your Personal Tutor/Supervisor, Senior Postgraduate Tutors and Departmental Disability Officers.

Senior PG Tutors

Your department’s Senior Tutor has overall responsibility for the academic and pastoral care of postgraduate students in the department.  These experienced colleagues will be able to guide and support you in handling individual student problems or queries, and you should consult them if you are uncertain of how to proceed or would value a second opinion. Except in the case of familiar or straightforward interactions, personal tutors are advised to keep the Senior Tutor informed of their actions or to discuss an individual case before taking action with a student. You can find the contacts for your department below.

Department Disability Officers

Departmental disability officers (DDOs) are the first point of contact within a student's department. They will help organise and facilitate the support that the Disability Advisory Service have suggested within the department.
 
You can contact your DDO (info below) for help with issues such as:

  • specific questions about your course, studies or departmental facilities;
  • difficulties that might arise in the rare event that there is any problem in implementing our recommendations;
  • mitigating circumstances;
  • applying for additional exam arrangements.

Brain Sciences

National Heart and Lung Institute

Immunology and Inflammation

Infectious Diseases

Institute of Clinical Sciences

Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

School of Public Health

Surgery and Cancer

Faculty support

There are different channels of support available within the Faculty of Medicine to support you:

Senior Faculty Tutor

Dr Jeffrey Vernon:  j.vernon@imperial.ac.uk 

The Faculty Senior Tutor has responsibility for ensuring the delivery of consistent, high quality support for students in their personal, general academic and professional development.  Working with and supporting personal tutors and Senior Tutors, they ensure that support systems are effective, that training is appropriate and that Imperial policies in student support are implemented. 

The Faculty Senior Tutor is available for additional support and guidance, augmenting the support that your department can provide for academic and personal matters. You may find the Faculty Senior Tutor particularly useful if you have a matter which you feel is highly sensitive or complicated, and wish to ensure that you will be talking to the right person or team to help you. 

Faculty Student Wellbeing Advice Team

The Student Wellbeing Advice Team (SWAT) offers support to all postgraduate students within the Faculty of Medicine. In addition, we also deliver training for staff and students, and provide resources on a variety of wellbeing topics.  Meet the team and find out what to expect from an appointment with us.

Get in touch

Our Student Wellbeing Advisors are available for one-to-one guidance meetings should you wish to speak with someone in confidence about any aspect of your wellbeing. 

Email fomwellbeingpg@imperial.ac.uk for a one-to-one appointment.

College support

Imperial's central Student Support teams offer a broad range of support services:

Online resources

The Student Support Zone is an online resource which is the ultimate guide to wellbeing at Imperial.

The Imperial Success Guide offers advice and resources to enable Master's and PhD students to excel and get the most out of their time at the College. 

Training and workshops

The Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service run a number of Workshops and Courses throughout the year. 

The Early Career Researcher Institute run a suite of Professional Development courses for PhD and Master's Students.

Be An Active Bystander

Active Bystanders reinforce messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behaviour.

If we constantly reinforce messages about behaviour that is unacceptable, this puts considerable pressure on people to re-think their behaviour. So any level of inappropriate or unacceptable behaviour should not be ignored. Many individuals with problematic attitudes are likely to think their behaviour is normal if no one confronts it, and this can often be reinforced by cultural messages. Some might not care their behaviour causes harm to others, but some might not even realise.

Working collectively we can bring about change and create a safe and supportive community for all. 

 

Crisis support

If you are experiencing a crisis or think you may need urgent support, find out who to contact via the Student Support Zone crisis support webpages or other sources of help from the Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service webpages.

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