Resources

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing at LSE

LSE is creating a new Student Mental Health and Wellbeing (SMHW) Framework. This will adopt SMHW as a strategic priority for LSE, in order to support a new integrated whole School approach. Student Wellbeing has been included as a focus within the LSE 2030 Strategy, as part of the commitment to ensure holistic and comprehensive support for every student. The new Framework will be launched in 2020, and address key areas including: academic culture and practice; welcome and a sense of belonging; promotion, prevention and provision in support of SMHW.

Disability and Mental Health Service:

You can find extensive information about LSE services on the Disability and Mental Health Service website, Student Wellbeing and Staff Wellbeing page.

Network of Disabled Students and Staff (NODSS):

If you would like to be involved in the NODSS, please contact the chair of the network, Ken Kinsella (k.kinsella@lse.ac.uk).

IT accessibility at LSE:

Data and Technology Service (DTS) is committed to the provision of facilities and support for disabled students and staff to ensure equality of access to services.

Additional facilities and services for Library users with disabilities:

The Library is committed to ensuring that it provides full access to the range of services and facilities that it offers to both LSE staff and students and non-LSE members.

Line Manager's resource:

If you have line-management responsibilities for staff, you may wish to draw on the Mental Health First Aid England 'Line managers' resource' [PDF], which is a practical guide to managing and supporting people with mental health problems in the workplace.

Training:

The Cause for Concern Protocol offers guidance to staff in managing student difficulties, including in relation to mental health and wellbeing. For details of training sessions, including flying start induction and Mental Health First Aid course, please contact hr.learning@lse.ac.uk.

Staff rest room:

A staff rest room is available in the New Academic Building (NAB), and the reception team can arrange access.

Other organisations:

Mind and Time to Change are two external organisations with a wealth of resources on mental health.

Ensuring events are accessible

We encourage you to organise your own events. However when doing so remember to consider how to make the event accessible to people with disabilities.

In-person events

For in-person events, click here for basic information on physical access, and hearing loops.

The LSESU has also produced a comprehensive checklist to use when both planning an event and during an event.

Online events

There are various things you can consider when ensuring online teaching is accessible to disabled students. The same considerations apply to online events.

Live transcripts and subtitles can now be generated automatically when using Zoom. Learn how to set these up for your event. Alternatively you can organise our external supplier (121 Captions) to provide high quality live captioning.

Teams also provides options for captioning and transcriptions, but these can only be turned on by attendees once the meeting has started. You also need to make this option available to attendees before the meeting. If an alternative to Teams cannot be used, make attendees aware of this option and how to use it if they so wish.

Supporting materials

Whether your event is online or in-person, any supporting material you may use in the event should also be accessible. LSE has a practical guide to creating accessible resources here.