Tamsin Kershaw-Murphy, Deputy Director of Academic and Student Administration (Student Services), announces that Oxford Brookes is working towards the Student Minds Mental Health Charter
Oxford Brookes University is committed to improving the mental health of both students and staff and we’re delighted to be working towards the Student Minds Mental Health Charter.
So far, as part of the work we’re doing to achieve the Charter Award we:
- have a newly formed Student Welfare and Support Advice Team that offers short-term emotional and practical support
- are appointing an external consultant to review our services and students’ opinion of them. We will especially be seeking feedback from under-represented students
- have had no waiting list for the Counselling Service (since October 2022)
- are working to diversify our chaplaincy representation
- are working with Faculty to embed support tools into the curriculum.
We appreciate that we have a great deal of work to do in order to achieve accreditation, but are committed to embedding support for improved mental health within everything that we do.