Health Inequalities
Developing new personalisation approaches
To make sure that we’re here for students when they need us, before they need us, we’re developing a ‘personalisation’ agenda. We want our support services to be able to anticipate and understand student vulnerability at the earliest possible point.
This way, we can make sure that applicants and students are heard and understood. We can partner with them, with their supporters, to stop harm from happening and to help them succeed at university, in life.
This is how we’re doing it:
- We’re investing in our pre-entry work, enhancing our capacity to proactively reach out and explore situations with applicants.
- We’re ensuring that effective wraparound plans are made and agreed with applicants prior to enrolment.
- We’re working hard to be more flexible, more responsive to students when they’re going through difficulties. We’ve invested in our triage capability, and developing common triage, risk assessment and referral pathways across key departments and teams.
- We’re developing flexible and faster ways to provide information, advice, guidance and therapeutic support to applicants and students.
Helping our students through the cost of living crisis
The cost of living crisis is not going away. It’s still affecting people across the UK, in all kinds of ways. We recently ran an awareness campaign to highlight the services, support and information available to staff and students.
Examples of student support include:
- Students can apply for financial help from our student support fund
- Free access to Blackbullion financial education resource
- Employment opportunities for students
- Free MOVE Programme membership for all students.
We, alongside the Students’ Union at UWE Bristol, are offering additional support to students and staff:
- Free hot ‘bring your own bowl’ meals
- Free sanitary products
- Clothing swap shops
- Discounted food boxes
- Food bank on-site.
As well as opening some of our buildings for longer, providing warm, safe spaces, all students and staff can now use our shower facilities.
We’re offering free tea and coffee (you just need to bring your own mug) at our main catering outlets. We’ve also frozen the cost of food in our catering outlets and launched our Eat Well for Less initiative. Eat Well for Less means that you can buy a sustainable meal for a reduced price.
We pay the Real Living wage and we’ve temporarily suspended car parking charges.