Student Advice will listen to your concerns, talk through your options and may direct you to specialist services across the wider universities as well as to support available locally. You can talk through anything affecting your ability to thrive on your course, including:
- health, wellbeing and self-care
- anxiety and stress-related issues
- BSMS and university processes (including Additional Considerations)
- motivation, procrastination and time-management
- isolation, loneliness and homesickness
- difficulties with your course - guidance on intermission and withdrawal
- discrimination, bullying and harassment - reporting and support
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Contact us
Please note the Student Advice team only provide support to current students at BSMS. For queries relating to admissions or student life, please contact the Admissions and Widening Participation team above.
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Meet the team
Introducing the BSMS Student Advice team.
Paul Vigg
Student Advice Co-ordinator
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Jessica Daniels
Senior Wellbeing Projects Office/Student Advice
Co-ordinator
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Tabitha Ellwood
Student Adviser
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Tania Vaughan
Student Adviser
She/her
Ian Angell
Student Advice Co-ordinator
He/him
Jon Mason
Student Adviser
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Sarah Hobson
Student Adviser
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Lizzy Pennock
Student Adviser
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Bullying and harassment – anonymous reporting tool
BSMS is committed to challenging all forms of harassment and discrimination. We encourage students to report incidents they have experienced or witnessed.
Students can use the bullying and harassment anonymous reporting tool below or can contact the Student Advice team to speak to a Welfare Adviser. If you are not sure which course of action to take, please consult the flowchart on the reporting webpage below.
View the reporting tool here >
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Confidentiality statement
Everything a student discusses with a member of Student Advice will normally remain confidential within the Student Advice Team. The team (including the Director/Deputy Directors) may discuss your case in order to plan how best to assist you. In some circumstances, to facilitate support for your studies, or where there is a concern for your own health and safety or that of others (including Fitness to Practise) or because of a legal requirement, it may be necessary to speak to colleagues in the school or universities. Where this would involve sharing sensitive personal information, we would seek to discuss this with you beforehand where possible, and info will only be shared on a need-to-know basis. To help us support you now and in the future we keep a record of contacts we have had with you while providing your support, these records are held securely by the Student Advisers.