Mental health and wellbeing support for staff and students available at Liverpool

Support for staff

The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a confidential counselling and information service available to assist you with personal or work-related problems that may be affecting your health, wellbeing or performance.

Student Services have a wide range of resources and guidlines for staff supporting students on their web pages.

Support for students

Student services

Student Welfare Advice and Guidance Advisers are available via phone between 9am and 3:30pm and email between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Counselling and Mental Health Service are available via email and phone from 9am to 5pm each day Monday to Friday.

"If you would like to speak to an Adviser, please email advice@liv.ac.uk with your name and student ID and an Adviser will call you back. We are also utilising Microsoft Teams to allow us to make video calls to students who would like to speak to a friendly face."univ

Liverpool Guild of Students

The Guild advice team is available to all students inclusive of PGRs and is operating as a digital support service currently. If you require an appointment please contact the advice team via email at guildadvice@liv.ac.uk to arrange a telephone or online appointment.

Further support and advice for PGRs from the Guild can be found on their web site: PGRs @ Liverpool Guild of Students

Peers for PhDs

Peers for PhDs is a student-led project aiming to improve PGR wellbeing at the University through regular meetings for those who need a chat and to share problems with other researchers. During the current lock-down the group have had regular meetings in Zoom. Details are sent to all on the mailing list. To join this list, contact one of the three organisers:

Ella Fox-Widdows ella.fox-widdows@liverpool.ac.uk

Mohamed Hammad mohamed.hammad@liverpool.ac.uk

Natasha Bradley natasha.bradley@liverpool.ac.uk

PGR Peer Wellbeing Ambassador Network

The aim of the PGR Peer Wellbeing Ambassador Network is to provide a safe non-judgmental space for students with similar experiences to come together and support one another. The scheme offers a peer-to-peer support group for PGR students and has now expanded to include schemes across the university, creating a university-wide ambassador network.

The scheme offers opportunity for a PGR of any year of study to access the ambassador scheme for support, regular social and informative events and most importantly the opportunity to meet fellow PGR students.

The schemes operate across a high majority of the university. Please contact the Network Manager, Maizy Jenner (m.jenner@liverpool.ac.uk), to find out if your school or institute have a scheme.

Further online resources to support PGRs

The Wellbeing Thesis - an online resource for postgradute research students to support your wellbeing, learning and research