What can peer support do for you?

Peer support offers an easily accessible and relatively informal opportunity to talk through any issues which may be concerning you. Often it can help simply to get things off your chest or to know that someone is genuinely willing to listen and take time to understand what’s on your mind. Sometimes just talking things through is enough; sometimes it may lead you to seek more professional help. More details on Oxford's Peer Support Programme can be found Peer Support Training | University of Oxford.

How to contact a peer supporter outside your department

Student Peer Supporters are available to talk with you informally about anything that is concerning you. All Peer Supporters have been carefully selected and trained to take up this role. Often it can help simply to get things off your chest or to know that someone is genuinely willing to listen and take time to understand what’s on your mind.

MSD are operating a peer supporter network who are willing to offer peer support to any MSD-based students. Please use the address msdpeers@medsci.ox.ac.uk to confidentially contact the administration team (who would not need any details other than your email address/name) and we can put you in contact with a divisional supporter who is not part of your department. If you are comfortable speaking to someone in your department please see the list below.

Peer supporters in the Medical Sciences Division

The below table gives the names, contact details and locations of the trained peer supporters in the Medical Sciences Division. Please feel free to contact any of the peer supporters to arrange a meeting.

Table containing Name, Department and Email address for the MSD-trained Peer Supporters
Name	Department and location	Email address
James Altunkaya	Nuffield Department of Population Health, Old Road Campus	james.altunkaya@dph.ox.ac.uk
Stephanie Anderson	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Parks Road	stephanie.anderson@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Emilia Antonio	Nuffield Department of Medicine, Old Road Campus	emilia.antonio@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Lea Ballenberger	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, South Parks Road	lea.ballenberger@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Lampros Bisdounis	Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, South Parks Road	lampros.bisdounis@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Eboni Bucknor	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics,	eboni.bucknor@cmd.ox.ac.uk
Cori Campbell	Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road	cori.campbell@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Bao Quyen Do	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Parks Road	quyen.do@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Nicole Dvorak	Post-doctoral Researcher in Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Old Road Campus	nicole.dvorak@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Marwa Elbasheer	Nuffield Department of Population Health, Old Road Campus	marwa.elbasheer@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Mohamed Elzawahry	Nuffield Department of Surgery, John Radcliffe and Old Road Campus	mohamed.elzawahry@nds.ox.ac.uk
Rita Faria	Department of Biochemistry, South Parks Road	anarita.faria@bioch.ox.ac.uk
Yingshi Feng	South Parks Road and John Radcliffe Hospital	yingshi.feng@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
Micon Garvilles	Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Old Road Campus	micon.garvilles@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Riddhi Jain	Department of Experimental Psychology; Radcliffe Observatory Quarter	riddhi.jain@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
James Kent	Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital	james.kent@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Jeremy Leslie-Spinks	Primary Care Health Sciences	jeremy.leslie-spinks@phc.ox.ac.uk
Siqi Li	Department of Oncology, Old Road Campus	siqi.li@oncology.ox.ac.uk
Gerda Mickute	Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital	gerda.mickute@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Eloise Nee	Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Old Road Campus	eloise.nee@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Hanyu Qin	Old Road Campus	hanyu.qin@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Dhriti Ratra	Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital	dhriti.ratra@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Alice Robinson	Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Old Road Campus	alice.robinson@univ.ox.ac.uk
Mira Rothweiler	Target Discovery Institute, Old Road Campus	elisabeth.rothweiler@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Felice Wallner	Old Road Campus	felice.wallner@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Mingtong Wei	Old Road Campus	mingtong.wei@linacre.ox.ac.uk
Jack Whitehead	Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre	jack.whitehead@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Tom Wilson	Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe	tom.wilson@ndcls.ox.ac.uk
Zhi Wong	Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Old Road Campus	zhi.wong@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Zoe Wong	Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe	zoe.wong@imm.ox.ac.uk
Jaezah Zainal-Azman	Department of Pharmacology, South Parks Road	jaezah.zainalazman@pharm.ox.ac.uk