How to Offer Effective Wellbeing Support to Law Students

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'How To Offer Effective Wellbeing Support to Law Students is an innovative new contribution which will support both law students and legal academic wellbeing. Although not all jurisdictions of legal education around the world adopt the UK system of pastoral care, all jurisdictions now have an evidence-based ethical imperative to ensure that law schools and legal academics do no harm to our students. More than that, we have a positive responsibility to support our students in their learning and career success. This work provides both theoretical wisdom and practical guidance. Bleasdale has brought together some of the UK's most dedicated and experienced legal educators to extend our understanding of wellbeing support strategies and enhance the capacity of the legal academy globally to respond appropriately to the mental health needs of our students in evidence-based ways. This work should be on every legal educator's bookshelf.' -- Rachael Field, Bond University, Australia 'This How To Guide is timely, engaging and rooted in both scholarship and experience. Lydia Bleasdale has carefully curated a stimulating collection of contributions and reflections that should support reflection about our approaches within legal education. This is not the manual or the definitive list of all the answers, but offers a thought-provoking space to prompt different approaches to student wellbeing in Law. The chapters are rooted in the lived experiences of both the authors (and it's good to see contributions from academic and professional services colleagues) and students, and are well-referenced; thus, providing a fantastic starting point for colleagues wishing to undertake further work. I particularly enjoyed the timely reflections on the complexities generated by race, gender and class. This collection is important to the sector, not least because of similar discussions taking place within the legal profession. Running through the collection is a strong sense of the importance of belonging and community - and above all the kindness and the compassion exemplified by the authors' approaches in their work.' -- Andrew Francis, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 'How To Offer Effective Wellbeing Support to Law Students could not be a more timely or welcome collection. Addressing a topic of increasing importance across legal education in the UK and globally it is accessible, insightful and thought provoking. The contributors ask us to rethink our understandings of what it means to "do" student support in the classroom, on campus and in the curriculum.' -- Richard Collier, Newcastle University, UK 'This book provides a clear and important message that effective wellbeing support for students must blend with wellbeing support for staff. We know that students are disclosing their concerns more readily than ever before and those who read this book will be presented with a selection of tools to anticipate and address those concerns, whether they are new to offering pastoral care or new to leading personal tutoring processes.' -- Caroline Strevens, Portsmouth Law School, University of Portsmouth UK 'This book offers many practical case studies providing examples of various efforts in the university sector to support student well-being. For those legal educators interested in implementing practical measures to support their students, this book will offer many ideas both in terms of course design and the provision of student support services.' -- Liz Curran, Nottingham Trent University, UK