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BSMS Student Wellbeing and Advice

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BSMS Student Wellbeing and Advice

Student Wellbeing and 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 Wellbeing and 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 Wellbeing and Advice team.

 

 

 

 

A head and shoulders image of Jessica Daniels from the BSMS student advice team

   Jessica Daniels      
   Senior Wellbeing Projects Officer

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Tabitha Ellwood Profile Photo

   Tabitha Ellwood
   Student Adviser

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A head and shoulders shot of Tania Vaughan from the BSMS student advice team

   Tania Vaughan
   Student Adviser

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A head and shoulders image of Ian Angell

   Ian Angell
   Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator

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Jon Mason

   Jon Mason
   Student Adviser

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Sarah Hobson profile image

   Sarah Hobson
   Student Adviser

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Lizzy Pennock Profile Photo

   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 Wellbeing and 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 Wellbeing and Advice will normally remain confidential within the Student Wellbeing and 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.

Sexual safety at BSMS

At Brighton and Sussex Medical School, we are unequivocal:
Sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, abuse, or inappropriate behaviour are never acceptable – they are #NeverOK.

Sexual misconduct may include:

  • unwanted sexual comments or contact
  • coercion, intimidation, or abuse of power
  • stalking, harassment, or repeated unwanted contact (including online or anonymous)
  • any non-consensual sexual behaviour

This list is not exhaustive: you are all entitled to feel safe and comfortable while studying; whether that’s on campus, in your teaching sessions, on placement, in your accommodation, or at student society events and socials.  

These behaviours have no place in university, and especially in the medical profession, which is grounded in trust, respect, and patient safety.

If you have experienced a situation in which you were made to feel uncomfortable based on the comments or actions of others, regardless of who they are or what the context was, we encourage you to reach out and speak to someone about it. You will be listened to, supported, and taken seriously.

We take a zero‑tolerance approach, and any such behaviour will be treated with the utmost seriousness.

Dr Katharine Hurt, Director of Student Welfare, BSMS, wrote to all students in June 2026 with an update. View it here.