Key tasks
Know where to get help
Hallam Help is our first line support service. Contact the support team, look for answers to common questions and book sessions with specialist advisers.
Student Support Adviser Team
The Student Support Adviser (SSA) team works closely with the academic advisers and your college employability advisers to provide a seamless support offer. Meet our advisers.
Hallam Progress support
Hallam Progress provides support for applicants whose personal circumstances might mean there are barriers to going to university.
If you meet the eligibility criteria, there’s still time to join the scheme. The Hallam Progress team can help with making sure you have everything in place to start university, guiding you through enrolment and next steps, and ensuring you can access support from the get-go. Learn more about Hallam Progress.
Safety and incident reporting
If you see or experience sexual violence, harassment, abuse or hate crime, use Report + Support to report it.
You can do this anonymously if you want, and you can also ask for a support officer to contact you.
To find Report + Support in a hurry, search 'Hallam Report and Support' or go to shu.ac.uk/myhallam.
Your wellbeing
Make a note of shu.ac.uk/wellbeing, you can register with the Student Wellbeing and Belonging team to request therapeutic support based on your needs.
You also have free access to the Togetherall online community, for lots of useful resources and tailored self-help courses covering topics such as anxiety, sleep, weight management, depression and many more.
Disabled student support
You are eligible for support if you have a disability including; mental health difficulties, a physical disability or a long-term medical condition, specific learning difficulties, autism, if you are deaf or hard of hearing or have a visual impairment.
Register with the Disabled Student Support Team to inform us you would like support.
Visit our student support page for more information and to book an appointment with us.
More on these topics
Some of these links will take you to other Sheffield Hallam websites. You can use shu.ac.uk/prepare to find you way back to the 'Prepare for university' pages.
