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
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
Lara Bolte	Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital	lara.bolte@psych.ox.ac.uk
Eboni Bucknor	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics	eboni.bucknor@cmd.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
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
Johanna Hoffman	Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics	johanna.hoffmann@dpag.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
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
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
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
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