Expect the unexpected: supporting students out of hours

Felicity Bath

Wellbeing Service Manager, Bath Spa University

Felicity is the Student Wellbeing Services Manager at Bath Spa University. She joined higher education in December 2023 after over 20 years in the probation service. Her extensive experience in the public sector informs her work in student wellbeing, bringing a fresh perspective to the higher education environment.

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Sara Gallagher

Director of Student Wellbeing Services & DSL for students, Bath Spa University

As Director of SWS at Bath Spa University, Sara is the strategic lead for the delivery of a range of multi-disciplinary student support services. With around 30 years of experience working in higher education, Sara is passionate about the provision of enabling, agile and professional services for university communities.

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Ian Munton

Director of Student Services, Aberystwyth University

Ian is an AMOSSHE Executive Member and Director of Student Services at Aberystwyth University.

: https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html

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Vanessa Napolitano

Student Support Manager, Leeds Trinity University

Vanessa Napolitano is the Student Support Manager at Leeds Trinity University. She has worked in student support within a range of FE and HE settings (in the UK and US) for over seventeen years.

: https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/9/
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Eva Seinsche

Head of Mental Health Advice Service, University of Cambridge

Eva Seinsche is a Mental Health Social Worker with a specialisation in Forensic Mental Health, which she attained from Monash University in Melbourne. She has worked in this field since 2008 and has extensive experience working across mainstream and specialist clinical mental health services in Australia, Germany and Tanzania.

Since 2015, Eva has specialised in change implementation and management in health services and has been in her current role as Head of Mental Health Advice Service at the University of Cambridge since 2021. This has included collaborating in implementation and management of a major change programme in the provision of Student Support at the University of Cambridge and extensive liaison with local NHS trusts to develop and implement a specialist student mental health service.

: https://www.studentsupport.cam.ac.uk/mental-health-advice-service
: eva-s-051794220

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Mr Andy Shanks

Director of Student Wellbeing, University of Edinburgh

Andy is an AMOSSHE Executive Member and Director of Student Wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh.

: https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html

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