Welfare
One of the key roles of Alcuin College is to make your time here as healthy and problem-free as we can. For most people, coming to University is a major life change which can bring with it new types of stress, unfamiliar feelings and occasionally unfamiliar behaviours. A feeling of homesickness is one very common example. So one of the key roles of the College is to provide support when you experience these difficulties.
In Alcuin College we have two levels of health and welfare support:
- the support offered by the Provost, the Deputy Provost Penn Snowden, the Dean Natalie Kopytko and our three postgraduate tutors, Caroline Aliwell, Karisha George and Alex Reid;
- the support offered by the student network, with Junior Common Room welfare reps under the JCR Vice Chair for Welfare.
These two teams meet regularly throughout the year to discuss health and welfare issues, and they should be your first port of call.
We’re also well connected with the wide range of support services offered by the University. We might not personally be experts in all aspects of health and welfare, but in general we know someone who is!
A word on confidentiality
We take confidentiality very seriously. If things are said to us in confidence, they stay that way. We’re here to help, not to make things worse by telling people who don’t need to know.
And that includes parents. Sorry to those parents who might be reading this, but there are some things, sometimes, that your offspring might not want you to find out about – and we are not going to tell you. If they want to tell you, they will do so in their own time!
