The event is led by AMOSSHE Executive Members Sarah Sweeney (Lancaster University) and Sally Lambah (Wrexham University).
Confirmed speakers at the event include:
Lorna Devlin is the Head of Student Support & Experience at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics. With a long background in helping students maintain education against a background of poor mental health and other barriers, Lorna was one of the Design Leads for the new model of student support at Edinburgh.
She now oversees the implementation and review of the model at Economics, a flagship school for the model. She is developing ways to use existing data for the evaluation and monitoring of student support. Lorna is passionate about the community of practice of student support at Edinburgh and the provision of equitable and inclusive provision for all students.
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/academic-life/how-we-support-you
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Embedding a holistic student support model (without personal tutors) Wednesday @ 10:30 AM
Rosie Edwards has been a key figure in the research, design and implementation of the new model of student support at Edinburgh since its inception in 2019. With extensive experience in student-related professional services roles across the University, Rosie is passionate about improving the higher education experience for the whole staff student community and removing friction from our systems and change management where she can. She is currently working across a number of strategic projects, one of which is embedding the new model of student support.
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/academic-life/how-we-support-you
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rosie-edwards-6579971a1
Embedding a holistic student support model (without personal tutors) Wednesday @ 10:30 AM
Hannah has been at Wrexham University for six and a half years, and for the last two and a half years, she has been a Student Support Navigator within the Wellbeing Team. This role offers students an opportunity to have a “What Matters” conversation and to become informed of the support available to them, both within the University as well as externally to the area. Hannah has always been passionate about supporting students and her previous role at Wrexham was based within the Careers and Employability team as a Work Experience Project Officer.
Project Retain: support for targeted cohorts of students at Wrexham University Wednesday @ 11:50 AM
Sarah is a Senior Consultant in the Leadership, Organisational Development and Research team at Advance HE.
Sarah’s expertise lies in co-creative organisational design and development, specialising in culture and change, with the purpose of enabling and empowering individuals, groups, and organisations to thrive.
Sarah has significant experience working in the UK HE sector and has held leadership roles in the areas of equity and inclusion, student services delivery and organisational development.
Sarah is a published author, a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, a qualified coach, interpersonal mediator, facilitator, integrative counsellor and Lean 6 Sigma practitioner and is currently training in organisational transactional analysis.
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www.advance-he.ac.uk
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/sarah-hubbard-od
Valuing the contribution of care and support in our organisations Wednesday @ 9:10 AM
Sally is an AMOSSHE Executive Member and Head of Student Support and Wellbeing at Wrexham University.
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https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html
Welcome and context Wednesday @ 9:00 AM
Student Services-led pastoral support in your context: where to start? Wednesday @ 11:05 AM
Levi is director and principal consultant at Plinth House Limited, a training and consultancy company dedicated to supporting universities to deliver excellent student-facing services and effective pastoral support.
In his consultancy work, Levi delivers service reviews and supports the development of institutional policies and procedures relating to the management of serious welfare incidents, mental health support, fitness to study, personal tutoring, and other specialist support issues. A significant focus of the company’s work is focused on helping universities respond effectively to distressed students – including training academic and professional services colleagues on how to respond effectively in the moment when working with a student who is distressed.
Prior to setting up Plinth House in 2017, Levi worked within higher education as a director of student support services, having managed service portfolios at King’s College London, Northumbria University, and the University of Leeds. Before joining the higher education sector, Levi held a range of equality and diversity roles, having worked as the Scottish Parliament’s equality lead, head of public affairs at the Commission for Racial Equality, and a researcher for Stonewall. Levi was also policy director at the Equality Challenge Unit, prior to the organisation’s merger with other higher education bodies to become Advance HE.
Levi has served as a member of the Disability Experts Panel of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Consulting and the Chartered Management Institute.
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https://www.plinthhouse.com/
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levipay
Embedded pastoral support: a framework for thinking about the different support models available Wednesday @ 9:40 AM
Beth Smith is a Lecturer in PE and School Sport and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Hartpury University. She is Programme Manager of the FdSc Sport Performance and Coaching, BSc (Hons) Sport Performance Top Up and is an Academic Personal Tutor across these programmes and the BSc (Hons) PE and School Sport. Beth undertakes professional development-based research for practitioners in the field of teaching and learning and coach development.
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https://pure.hartpury.ac.uk/en/persons/bethany-smith
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/bethany-smith-b5bb0b183
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@@pe_bsmith
The power of data: supporting student retention through academic personal tutor-led engagement Wednesday @ 12:25 PM
Sarah is Vice Chair of AMOSSHE The Student Services Organisation and Head of Student Support and Wellbeing at Lancaster University.
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https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html
Welcome and context Wednesday @ 9:00 AM
Student Services-led pastoral support in your context: where to start? Wednesday @ 11:05 AM
Natasha has been a Student Support Navigator within the Wellbeing Team at Wrexham University since the inception of the role in 2020. The role initially came to fruition as it recognised the complexities of working with students and aimed to meet their individual needs, which is an ethos that has continued within the service to this day. Natasha has a background of supporting individuals in difficult circumstances, having worked in the criminal justice system for a number of years, and is therefore passionate about supporting people to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Project Retain: support for targeted cohorts of students at Wrexham University Wednesday @ 11:50 AM
Dr Kate Wilkinson is Head of Teaching and Learning and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Hartpury University, leading teaching enhancement, mentoring for Advance HE accreditations, and pedagogical staff development. She plays a key role in supporting students, co-chairing the inclusive teaching and learning group and the Achievement Success centre (ASC). Kate undertakes practice based research in teaching and learning, and is a co-convener for the Advance HE TEAL network, as well as a Student Minds Mental Health Charter assessor.
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https://pure.hartpury.ac.uk/en/persons/kate-wilkinson
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katewilkinsonuni
The power of data: supporting student retention through academic personal tutor-led engagement Wednesday @ 12:25 PM
