Support and wellbeing

You’ll be supported from day one to help you make the most of your time with us.

You will have access to a wide range of support services to help you thrive both personally and academically.

Student support co-ordinators are a great first point of contact for navigating university life. They can provide you with support on personal issues as well as offering advice and guidance on academic matters.

The Student Welfare and Support Advice Team offers advice and support to students in crisis or who are experiencing serious circumstances that are affecting their studies. They offer short-term emotional and practical support, and can signpost to other services, with the aim of enabling students to find ways of managing the situation and moving forward.

Inclusive Support Service

The Inclusive Support Service provides individually tailored advice, tutoring and mentoring and assistive technology for disabled students. If you are neurodivergent or have a sensory or long-term physical or mental health condition, our specialist team will work with you to develop an Inclusive Support Plan (ISP) detailing the adjustments you need for teaching delivery, assessed coursework and exams. We can help you to access funding to support your studies through the Disabled Students’ Allowance if you are eligible.

Counselling

Oxford Brookes Counselling Service works with around 1,000 students a year and we offer therapy for a wide range of circumstances including anxiety, depression, bereavement, sexuality and managing transitions at university. We have counsellors available online and in person and you can access up to six sessions per academic year.

Multifaith Chaplaincy

The Multifaith Chaplaincy offers spiritual and pastoral care for the University community. We offer a range of events, including regular worship and religious services and social events. Our service is open to students and staff from any background, of any identity, and any faith or belief system.

Royal Literary Fund Fellows

Oxford Brooks hosts Writing Fellows from the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) in London. The RLF is a charity which supports professional writers through a variety of schemes, including a scheme that places experienced writers into higher education institutions to offer confidential one-to-one tutorials to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This can be on any aspect of writing and presentation, whether academic assessed and non-assessed work, exam writing or seminar presentation. RLF Fellows can offer help across the full range of academic disciplines.

All Oxford Brookes students who are in the UK at the time of the consultation are entitled to sign up.

International students

Our International Student Advice Team (ISAT) is on hand to help with immigration, visas and finance issues before you arrive. Once you’re here, the team runs socials, buddy schemes and offers free English language support to help you settle in as quickly as possible.

Study skills

Studying at university can feel like a big change, so at Oxford Brookes we provide a wide range of support and development opportunities to help you succeed and thrive. You will have your own academic advisor to help you make the most of your course. The Centre for Academic Development also offers all students individual tutorials in study skills, mathematics and statistics, and runs modules in academic language and literacies.

Support and wellbeing

Inclusive Support Service

Counselling

Multifaith Chaplaincy

Royal Literary Fund Fellows

International students

Study skills

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