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Thank you for acting as a Personal Development Advisor for you student family.</div>
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The main role of the PDA is to be a first point of contact for students in the department outside of direct teaching events. Hence you should be meeting the whole group at the start of each term, but also in addition make them aware that you can meet individually
if there are personal or private issues they want to raise or get help with.</div>
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You should have received a link for logging PDA student meetings:</div>
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This contains most of the important information and suggested signposts for students that should be raised when you meet your students. This link is also available as a QR code: </div>
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The PDA role is mostly to signpost where to go for help if there is a problem, and it is not your job to fix everything for the student.</div>
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<b>Academic matters</b></div>
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<li class="elementToProof"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">They should talk to the relevant teaching staff, if possible, as they are usually best placed to help.<br class="ContentPasted0">
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<li class="elementToProof"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">If it's regarding a complaint, this can be raised (in escalating order) via : you as the PDA; the relevant Student-Staff committee rep for the class; The year coordinator for that student; physics-director-student-support@strath.ac.uk
(i.e. me); gabrielle.weir@strath.ac.uk the Department Manager; By following the University complaints process as described at <a href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/documents/complaintsprocedure/Strath_CHPPart5_-_Guide_for_students.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAf5e2a021-cb62-a8ca-f8f8-175ab8793141" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/documents/complaintsprocedure/Strath_CHPPart5_-_Guide_for_students.pdf</a></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">The department's support should be contacted via physics-ddc@strath.ac.uk</span></li><li class="elementToProof"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">The University's pages give information and link for the central support <a href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/disabilityandwellbeing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAe9bcd536-26eb-0b08-bc37-9c7b6416be19" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/disabilityandwellbeing/</a></span></li></ul>
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Students should be reminded to contact these routes<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><i class="ContentPasted0">as early as possible</i> if they require support for a disability, as it takes time for assessment and adjustments to be put in place.</div>
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<b>Emergency support</b></div>
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There is information at </div>
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giving contacts for support and guidance for distressed students. There is a PDF summary at </div>
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which also includes links to various resources.</div>
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University Security staff are trained in first aid and mental health first aid, so call 2222 in an emergency.</div>
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In addition, there are departmental first aiders on all floors, and at least 3 mental health first aiders in the building (see signage near the lifts).</div>
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Much of this information is also available to students at the Physics Personal Development page:</div>
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