Levi Pay, director and principal consultant, shares our approach to Fitness to Study issues within higher education.

In higher education, conversations about student mental health are increasingly featuring, and potentially being shaped by, terms such as overdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, diagnostic inflation and overmedicalisation. They are sometimes used as if they mean the same thing – but this misses important differences.

By Levi Pay, Director, Plinth House -"Nothing gets me thinking about trigger warnings like Father’s Day or Mother’s Day: the annual run of emails asking whether I would prefer to opt out of promotions relating to the occasion..."

Our case study details the work we completed with University of Plymouth to support staff in their day-to-day communications with students.

A quick update to share on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill - also referred to as the Hillsborough Law Bill - which has just been introduced to Parliament. The Bill is likely to have significant implications for how universities and HEIs engage with coroner's inquests in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and fatal accident inquiries in Scotland. Here are six important takeaways for the higher education sector from our reading of the Bill, as it was introduced at Wes

When you're next working with a student who is overwhelmed or finding it hard to focus, try using this practical 'three circles exercise'.

At an AMOSSHE event earlier this year, our director, Levi Pay, delivered a presentation about the different pastoral support models open...

Student Services teams have a broad and vital impact on free speech – therefore, a crucial role in protecting free speech. However, this role is often downplayed. We’ve mapped out the ways in which free speech issues intersect with the work of Student Services.

☎️🚨 On-call and out-of-hours staffing arrangements have to be one of the trickiest things for a university or HEI to get right.

We are pleased to announce that digital certificates will now be provided to colleagues who attend our training sessions.

At Plinth House, we recently completed a project with Bath Spa University to devise a bespoke Clinical Governance Framework for the Universi

We welcome the 'Flying Flags and Ticking Boxes: What Went Wrong with EDI and How Leaders Can Fix It' report, and explore its impact on HEIs.

Levi Pay, director & principal consultant, looks at the many institutional charters to set the scene for Plinth House's newly published list

We have been listening, over recent years, to colleagues in universities telling us about their experiences of attending, or rolling out, Mental Health First Aid training. While we know some colleagues in higher education find it interesting to spend time attending a Mental Health First Aid course and hearing about the signs and symptoms of different mental health conditions, the feedback we often hear is that the training can fail to reflect the context of higher education

Levi Pay, director and principal consultant, shares details of our Pitstop event focusing on four approaches for higher education colleagues to looking after ourselves. Supporting you In January and February 2024, we held free Practice Pitstop events called 'Looking after yourself', in which we explored four different and complementary approaches to looking after ourselves and our own wellbeing. The approaches are: 1️⃣ Analysing – stepping back and considering our sources of

We summarise viewpoints from sector participants who attended our Policy Pitstop discussion.

Levi Pay, director and principal consultant, presents the emerging national narrative and its implications for higher education institutions

Levi Pay introduces two free practical resources to support an effective response in student death cases.

We’re excited to launch our brand new ready-to-run training sessions - making it easier to support you and your teams on the challenging topics faced by the higher education sector. Our ready-to-run live online sessions make it easy to roll out training within a team or service, especially to those working remotely or on shift patterns. How it works Find a session you want to run for your cohort, Place your order and pay via debit / credit card or request an invoice, We’ll co

We explore a common gap in safeguarding arrangements in higher education.