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://www.join.business-school.ed.ac.uk/student-support#student-services. MBA: mba.support@business-school.ed.ac.uk PGR: Office.pgr@business-school.ed.ac.uk Centre for Open Learning COL.StudentSupport@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art ECAStudentSupport@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 hca-sso@ed.ac.uk School of Law UG and PG students: law.sso@ed.ac.uk Law students studying Diploma in Professional Legal Practice: Law.Diploma@ed.ac.uk School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures llcsso@ed.ac.uk School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences ppls.sso@ed.ac.uk School of Social and Political Science student.sps@ed.ac.uk College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Student Office CAHSSvisitingstudents@ed.ac.uk College of Science And Engineering School of Biological Sciences btostudentsupport@ed.ac.uk School of Chemistry Student Support Team (Chemistry.StudentSupport@ed.ac.uk) or Student Adviser. DSTI (Bayes) datascience@ed.ac.uk 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 Deanery of Biomedical Sciences UG: BMTOStudentSupport@ed.ac.uk PGT: BMTOPGStudentSupport@ed.ac.uk Deanery of Clinical Sciences CSTOstudentsupport@ed.ac.uk Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences Alison.Webb.SA@ed.ac.uk Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies UG: BVM&S GEP: RDSVS.SA.AliRoss@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 1: RDSVS.SA.MeganHawkswell@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 2: RDSVS.SA.AliRoss@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 3: RDSVS.SA.MandyEdmond@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 4: RDSVS.SA.SuBoyle@ed.ac.uk BVM&S Year 5: RDSVS.SA.SuBoyle@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 Med.StudentSupport@ed.ac.uk 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. 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 This article was published on 2024-07-29