Welfare
Welcome to the MCR Welfare pages. These are divided into topics, to help you find your way around, and each gives information of where to find support, in Merton, in Oxford, and elsewhere (usually via the web).
They contain both day-to-day information to make aspects of graduate life easier, which most of us will have to use now and again (grant forms, information on doctors, dentists and the like), as well as resources for times of crisis, whether big or small, which we hope only a few of you will have to use, but which we hope many of you will browse to raise your own awareness and be able better to support each other if needed.
Any questions, comments or suggestions, please e-mail Amber or Kitty, your Welfare Officers.
Please also see the College’s ‘Health and Welfare’ page on the College website.
If you are visiting this page because you are experiencing feelings of distress and despair, and need to talk to someone urgently, at any time or day or night, you can:
Ring Anna, the Welfare Dean on 0776 2906913 room phone: 26441
Ring Simon, the Chaplain, on 07968 375664
Ring the Jericho Health Centre Emergency line on 01865 270300
Ring Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90
If you don’t want to talk about your feelings, you can e-mail Samaritans jo(at)samaritans.org
Please also look at the sub-menus on the right hand side of this page for further contact details regarding specific areas of welfare.
Whatever you are feeling, there is someone there to listen.
Note on phone numbers: All phone numbers are provided for ringing from a UK landline or mobile. If you are ringing from a university internal phone, dial 9 before an 0800 number, and omit the (2) from Oxford (01865) numbers.