Speakers
Hannah Jones
Presentation
This session explores Balliol College’s approach to easing student transition through an online Wellbeing Welcome conference held two weeks before Welcome Week. Co-created with the student body, the conference offers workshops and presentations covering information useful to students before arrival.
Delegates will gain practical strategies to create cost-effective and adaptable programmes that help students start their studies informed and supported.
Hannah Jones is the Welfare Lead at Balliol College (a college of the University of Oxford). Under her guidance over the past two years she has refocused the welfare strategy to encourage increased engagement with the Welfare Team through embedded termly initiatives. More recently she has added pre-arrival support into the welfare student journey, to support early engagement with the team and wider university welfare and support services.
Prior to starting at Balliol, Hannah worked in Specialist Designated Institutions for over 20 years, covering land-based provision and adult learning. Her roles were based within student recruitment, academic registrar's office, safeguarding and welfare management.
Stephanie Pagio is a Counselling Psychologist working for the University of Oxford Counselling Service, she is the College Counsellor at Balliol College, Oxford.
Stephanie provides individual and group counselling, runs workshops for students, and is a part of the service trauma clinic. She recently partnered with Welfare Lead Hannah Jones creating content and presenting at the Balliol College Wellbeing Welcome, providing added pre-arrival support for new students. Among her other support roles within the service Stephanie provides welfare supervision for five colleges, and undertakes the role of link college counsellor. She works as a duty counsellor, contributes to peer supervision for therapeutic modalities, and holds a liaison role with specialist NHS services.
As well as working for the University of Oxford, Stephanie works for Barnados, and has a small private practice. She is an active member of the Beds, Bucks and Herts Regional EMDR Steering Group, where she facilitates ‘Research to Practice’ events aimed at bridging the gap between academic evidence and clinical application. Previously she worked for the NHS, and Bexar County Felony Drug Court in San Antonio, Texas.