Student Engagement
Here to listen and provide guidance and initial support, anytime you have personal circumstances impacting your studies.
Student Engagement Support
What we can help with...
Feeling overwhelmed? Struggling with deadlines? Issues with flatmates? Financial hardship? Illness or injury? Missing home?
Lots of things can make it difficult to do your best and fully engage with your studies. Whatever the situation, contact the team when things first happen, so that we can help.
In addition to general support for personal circumstances and help to settle into University life, we can also provide information, guidance and support for the specific topics below:
Engagement Support
- Extenuating circumstances
- Support to Study.
- Intermitting from your studies
- Withdrawing from your studies
- Attendance and Engagement intervention
Student Welfare & Community Life
- Emergency Hardship funding.
- Access to Learning funding.
- Staying safe on and off campus.
- Household disputes.
For more details on Welfare and Community Life, please also see the SW&CL webpage.
Contact the team.
Email, call, drop-in or schedule an appointment to meet the team in-person or on Teams.
We are available Monday - Friday, 9am - 4pm.
For more information regarding how we process student information, please see our Student Engagement Privacy Notice.
For all University of Kent students.
Email: StudentWelfare@kent.ac.uk
Email: CommunityLife@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01227 827010 (Welfare) and 01227 823141 (Community Life)
Meeting appointments for SW&CL
Drop-In Monday-Friday 11.00 - 13.00, 14.00 - 16.00
Keynes College Building, Room M1.12 (First Floor)
Access Guide for Keynes College Building
Webpage: Student Welfare and Community Life - Student life - University of Kent
For any students studying at or living near to the Medway (Chatham) campus.
Phone: 01634 888853
Meeting appointments for Medway students (in-person)
KBS Teams meeting appointments (online)
LSSJ Teams meeting appointments (online)
Medway Building, Room M3-12
Access Guide for the Medway Building
For students in (SNS) School of Natural Sciences, including Biosciences, Chemistry, Conservation, Forensic Sciences, Sports & Exercise Science, and Human Geography.
Email: natssupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01227 816577
Ingram Building, Room G31 (Ground Floor)
Access Guide for Ingram Building
For students in (SOC and EMP) School of Computing, and School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics. This includes Computing, Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy.
Email: cemssupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01227 816283
Ingram Building, Room G31 (Ground Floor).
For students (SOP and EPS) School of Psychology, and School of Economics and Politics & International Relations. This includes Psychology, Economics and Politics, International Relations, Anthropology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Human Biology and Behaviour, and Ethnobotany.
Email: HSSsupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01227 816540
Sibson Building, multiple rooms (ask at Sibson Reception).
Access Guide for Sibson Building
For students in (SAA and SOH) School of Arts and Architecture, and School of Humanities. This includes Classics, English, History, Architecture, Planning, Spatial Interior Design, Drama, Film, Graphic Design and Media, Art History, Centre of Music and Audio Technology, English Language and Linguistics, and Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Modern Languages.
Email: artshumssupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone: 01227 827780 & 01227 823075
Meeting appointments for ARTSHUMS
Cornwallis West, Rooms 154-158 (First Floor)
Email: kbssupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone Canterbury : 01227 824187 / Phone Medway: 01634 888853
Sibson Building, Rooms G15 and G02, Canterbury (ask at Sibson Reception).
Access Guide for Sibson Building
Medway Building, Room M3-12, Medway
For students in (SSS and KLS) School of Social Sciences and Kent Law School. This includes Law, Child Protection, CHSS, Criminology, Philanthropy, PSSRU, Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Health and Social Care, Journalism, and Tizard Centre.
Email: LSSJengagementsupport@kent.ac.uk
Phone Canterbury: 01227 824373 / Phone Medway: 01634 888853
Elliot Extension, Room 118, Canterbury
Access Guide for Elliot Extension Building
Medway Building, Room M3-12, Medway
Students are expected to attend all teaching and fully engage with study.
Attendance and Engagement
If you find that you are struggling to engage then Engagement Support is here to help.
Please see the information below, and contact us if you have questions.
Registering Attendance, Attendance and Engagement Policy, Procedure and Procedure Flowchart.
Meet the team
