Support

Take a look at the student guide to navigating help, resources, and support at LSE. 

LSE has a variety of wellbeing support services and resources for students who need someone to speak to about academic, mental health or other personal issues. These include the Disability and Mental Health Service, student counselling and the peer support scheme. The LSE Survivor Community Spaces is a is an initiative for students who have experienced sexual violence at any point in their life. 

Find out more about the wellbeing support available to you here. 

My Adjustments (MAs) are LSE’s system of recording the adjustments and support available to disabled students. It is a document tailored to your individual circumstances and needs and outlines the reasonable adjustments which the School will put in place to support your study. Find out more here. 

LSE LIFE offers support services for students' academic needs including workshops on skills such as academic writing, exam revision, note-taking, research methods and dissertation and essay planning and structure. You can organise one-to-one sessions with LIFE study advisers and find a range of study resources on the LIFE Moodle pages. 

Find out about the resources available to you through the library here, including the booking system for study spaces which are currently open. 

Library contacts including live chat: Getting help (lse.ac.uk) 

Library support for disabled people including the buddy service: Using the Library space (lse.ac.uk) 

If you're looking for specific sources or have any other queries about using the library, get in touch with the ID departments designated librarian Heather Dawson: h.dawson@lse.ac.uk. 

LSE Careers provides a wide range of resources to support students in their career journeys, including information and signposting, blogs, events, guidance, one-to-one consultations and more. 

Visit the ID Careers web page as a starting point for thinking about careers in International Development. It includes information, links to blogs that share insight into the sector and job boards for people seeking opportunities in development. 

CareerHub is an excellent resource that runs activities such as skills workshops (including interview preparation and CV clinics), networking events and information sessions to support you on your career journey, including the Discover ID Series beginning in Autumn Term. You can also create a personalised dashboard on Career Hub and search the job board for opportunities collated by LSE's Careers team. 

LSE Careers runs a 'Discover Inteernational Development' Event series in the Autumn and Winter terms. Find out more details here. 

Our International Development Careers Consultant is Lewis Humphreys, l.humphreys@lse.ac.uk.  

You can book a one-on-one appointment with Lewis or another of the LSE Careers Consultants for advice, signposting to resources or to set up a practice interview - book through CareerHub. 

If English is not your first language, there are plenty of ways you can improve and practice using the English language for your academic work including online courses, workshops and one-to-one support. 

Find out more about the language centre academic writing support here. 

If you need proofreading, translation or document authentication services then you can submit an online request form here. 

The Financial Support Office administers School funds and various scholarships, studentships, prizes and awards. Find out more about available financial support here. 

The LSE SU offer a Hardship Fund which is a means tested fund designed to help students who have fallen into short-term, unforeseen hardship to continue with their studies and complete their degree. The fund is managed and monitored by the SU Advice Service, independent from LSE. Find out more. 

The LSESU Advice Service provides free advice and support to LSE students on a range of academic, financial, and housing issues, and because we are independent from LSE, all our advice is impartial and free from a conflict of interest. 
 
The Advice Service also allocates multiple funds, including the hardship funds, which students have benefitted from greatly in the past. More information about the Advice Service can be found here. 

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