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 We

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.

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

☎️🚨 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,...

Our Director, Levi Pay, recently joined an episode of the Disrupting Echoes podcast, created by our friends at Alkhemy. In this episode,...

Levi Pay, director and principal consultant, shares details of our Pitstop event focusing on four approaches for higher education...

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.

Summarising key HE safeguarding information from our recent Policy Pitstop discussion, including observations from sector participants.