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.


Name	Department and location	Email address
Ruya Abdulsalam	Primary Health Care, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter	ruya.abdulsalam@spc.ox.ac.uk
Lara Bolte	Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital	lara.bolte@psych.ox.ac.uk
Martha Buhmann	Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road	martha.buhmann@path.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
Anda-Raluca Epure	Healthcare Data Science CDT, Parks Road and Warneford Hospital	anda-raluca.epure@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Zara Kaplan	Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road	zara.kaplan@wadham.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
Sunjin Uhm	Kavli Institute, Sherrington Rd	sunjin.uhm@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Mingtong Wei	Old Road Campus	mingtong.wei@linacre.ox.ac.uk
Kexin Xu	Radcliffe Department of Medicine, WIMM	kexin.xu@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Yutong Yang	Sir William Dunn School of Pathology	yutong.yang@path.ox.ac.uk