Help and Support, Confidential Advice

Graduate School confidential PhD advisors

PhD candidates who face specific issues related to the PhD programme (e.g. progress, supervision, training) can reach out to the (confidential) VLAG PhD advisors:


Confidential counsellors at WUR/AFSG level

PhD candidates can contact a confidential counsellor if they want advice on issues as undesired sexual attention, other undesirable behaviour or treatment in a discriminatory fashion.
Paulo de Boer (tel. 0317 - 481 521)


      Confidential counsellors for Scientific Integrity

      Two persons have been appointed by Wageningen UR as confidential cousellors for scientific integrity issues:


        Occupational social work

        The Occupational social worker (bedrijfsmaatschappelijk werk) can be deployed in any kind of conflict or team-working problems. In practice, they are primarily deployed in emotional social conflicts. Emotional social conflicts are characterised as conflicts leaving serious negative effects on the productivity, health and psychological well-being of employees:

        bedrijfsmaatschappelijkwerk@wur.nl (tel. 0317 - 474 158)


        WUR Social Safety Contact Point

        The Social Safety contact point is available for those wanting to ask or report something, to talk about social safety or to be referred. This is also the place to discuss situations to which you don’t know how to respond or for questions about what support would be best. :

        socialsafety@wur.nl  (tel. 0317 - 481774)

          More information about the work of the confidential counsellors and occupational social work can be found in the WUR support portal