Useful Contacts
Contact your local student support team, university pastoral services, or external helplines.
Student Support Teams
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) |
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| Business School |
UG and PG: Business School Student Advisers UG and PGT (MSc) are listed on the Business School website https://www.join.business-school.ed.ac.uk/student-support#student-services. |
| Centre for Open Learning | |
| Edinburgh College of Art | eca-sso@ed.ac.uk |
| Moray House School of Education and Sport | MHSES.SSO@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Divinity | div.student.support@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Economics | Economics.SSO@ed.ac.uk |
| Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) | efistudentsupport@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Health in Social Science | StudentSupport-HiSS@ed.ac.uk |
| School of History, Classics and Archaeology | |
| School of Law |
Undergraduate: law.sso@ed.ac.uk Law students studying Diploma in Professional Legal Practice: Law.Diploma@ed.ac.uk Law students PGT On-Campus programmes: Law.PG@ed.ac.uk Law students on PGT Online programmes: Law.Online@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures | llcsso@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences | |
| School of Social and Political Science | sso.sps@ed.ac.uk |
| College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Student Office | CAHSSvisitingstudents@ed.ac.uk |
College of Science And Engineering |
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| School of Biological Sciences | btostudentsupport@ed.ac.uk |
| School of Chemistry | Student Support Team (Chemistry.StudentSupport@ed.ac.uk) or Student Adviser. |
| DSTI (Bayes) | |
| School of Engineering |
SST.Eng@ed.ac.uk for all UG and PGT programmes k.tait@ed.ac.uk for all PGR programmes |
| School of Geosciences |
geoset.pgt@ed.ac.uk for all PGT programmes geoset.ug.drummond@ed.ac.uk for UG Geography programmes geoset.ug.kb@ed.ac.uk for all UG Earth Sciences, Ecological and Environmental Sciences |
| School of Informatics | inf-sst@inf.ed.ac.uk |
| School of Mathematics | studentsupport@maths.ed.ac.uk |
| School of Physics and Astronomy | StudentSupport.SoPA@ed.ac.uk |
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
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| Deanery of Biomedical Sciences | |
| Deanery of Clinical Sciences | Dcs.postgraduate@ed.ac.uk |
| Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences | |
| Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
UG: BVM&S GEP: vetteachinggep@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 1: vetteaching1@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 2: vetteaching2@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 3: vetteaching3@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 4: vetteaching4@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 5: vetteaching5@ed.ac.uk Global Academy of Agriculture & Food Security: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk PGT: Advanced Clinical Practice: Advanced.Practice@ed.ac.uk Applied Animal Behaviour & Animal Welfare: Animal.Behaviour@ed.ac.uk Applied Conservation Genetics with Wildlife Forensics: Conservation.Genetics@ed.ac.uk Applied Poultry Science: Poultry.Science@ed.ac.uk Clinical Animal Behaviour: ClinicalAnimalBehaviour@ed.ac.uk Conservation Medicine: conservation.medicine@ed.ac.uk Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine: Emma.Pineau@ed.ac.uk Equine Science: Equine.Science@ed.ac.uk Food Safety: Food.Safety@ed.ac.uk Global Food Security & Nutrition: Food.SecurityNutrition@ed.ac.uk International Animal Welfare, Ethics & Law: IAWEL@ed.ac.uk One Health: onehealth@ed.ac.uk One Health Models of Disease: Jennifer.Hurst@ed.ac.uk RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice: cert.avp@ed.ac.uk Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia: msc-vaa@ed.ac.uk Veterinary Epidemiology: vetepi@ed.ac.uk |
| Edinburgh Medical School |
MBChB (Pre-Clinical & Clinical): Penelope Norris Penelope.Norris@ed.ac.uk (until 28/01/14)
PGT (PgCert/PgDip/MSc Clinical Education): Charles Marley: Charles.Marley@ed.ac.uk |
Pastoral Services
| For help completing your application, and for impartial, effective support for anything to do with student life. | |
| Student Counselling Service | Free short-term counselling is available to all students. |
| Disability and Learning Support Service | The Disability and Learning Support Service offers support for students with disabilities, learning difficulties or health condition (mental or physical) that may impact their studies. |
| The Chaplaincy | A welcoming space for people of all faiths and none. They offer a free listening service for students who want to touch base on any concerns or anxieties, or are looking for a timely or purposeful conversation. Conversations can be held in a variety of places, and could be over coffee or a walk. They can also link you to specialist sources of help (including faith contacts if you wish.) |
| SilverCloud | Free, self-directed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy courses that help manage anxiety, stress, depression and positive body image. (Available to staff and students. |
| Togetherall | A free, online support network, guided by trained professionals, that you can access 24/7. |
| Feeling Good App | A free, safe and effective programme that is widely used within the NHS in Edinburgh, for increasing wellbeing and recovery from stress, worry and low mood. |
Helplines
| Medical help | If they are open, contact your GP. Otherwise, telephone NHS 24 on 111. If you're experiencing a medical emergency, dial 999 for emergency services. |
| Residence life | If you live in halls of residence, please contact the 24-hour helpline if you are experiencing an emergency. |
| The Samaritans |
A National Service for anything that is worrying you. Open 24/7 116 123 |
| Edinburgh Crisis Centre |
Support for people experiencing a mental health crisis. Open 24/7 080 8010414 |
| LGBT health and wellbeing |
Support for issues specific to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Tuesday & Wednesday 12-9pm 0300 123 2523 |
| Beat Adult Helpline |
Support for issues around eating disorders. Daily - 3pm to 10pm 0808 801 0677 |
| Edinburgh Nightline |
A service dedicated to University of Edinburgh students. Nightly - 8pm to 8am 0131 557 4444 or chat online. |
| Talk to Frank |
Advice about drugs and addiction. Phone and text: 24 hours Live chat: 2pm to 6pm 0300 123 660 or text 2111 |
| Befrienders Worldwide | If you’re not in the UK and need mental health support urgently you can look up crisis lines in your country through Befrienders Worldwide. |
| Vetlife |
Vetlife Helpline offers confidential emotional support to everyone in the veterinary community. Open 24/7 0303 040 2551 |