Counselling Services

Within the Department of English, your Study Counsellor can assist with matters related specifically to your academic program.

If you contact them via email, please include the following information:

  • reason for your email
  • full name
  • study program (BA, MA, PhD)
  • matriculation number

For more information on support services available to students, see list below:

Counselling Centre

For mental health support and more general ounselling, the University of Bern Counselling Centre offers a variety of resources for students. You can contact them directly to schedule an appointment or to learn more about the services they provide.

Career Service

The Career Service support students and doctoral students in their transition from studies to professional life. Every semester, they offer a broad variety of courses and events for that purpose. To stay up to date with their current agenda, see here.

SUB

The Student Union (SUB) provides a range of support services to all University of Bern students, such as legal support, financial aid, wo*mentoring, and studijob. Find information on the full range of support at their website.

Transferable Skills Program for (Post)Docs

The Transferable Skills Program offers events to develope your academic and non-academic transferable skills through individual feedback from experts, intensive learning in small groups and multidisciplinary networking. Transferable skills are competencies developed in one context that can be applied to a wide range of other contexts, jobs, positions, roles, or fields. See here for a list of current courses and events.

Lifelong Learning Center

The Lifelong Learning Center (LLC) offers different transfer-oriented programs which aim to engage participants in lifelong learning and give them access to research-based knowledge. Part of this are the LLC’s continuing education courses such as MAS, DAS and CAS.