The most successful people in life always turn their phone on silent. And I say this without a grain of evidence. Think of it as more of a belief, than a proven fact. It makes sense though, right? After all, phone calls from your parents in the middle of that interview for that dream job,…
Main Stories, News
36% rise in staff accessing mental health support from the university
According to data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to UEA, the number of staff who accessed mental health support from the university rose by 36% in the 2020/21 academic, bringing the number from 163 people to 222. The FOI request (FOI_21-176) shows that, prior to this 36% increase, the number of staff…
News
UEA Becomes one of the first Members of the University Mental Health Charter Programme
UEA has become one of the first 32 universities in the UK to join the new University Mental Health Charter Programme led by the mental health charity Student Minds. This news comes after the publication of this year’s annual National Student Survey, run by the Office for Students (OfS), which found only 42% felt their…
Film, Venue
The Upside to Inside: A Look Into The Potentials Of Post-Pandemic Film-Making
Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special Inside holds, at its core, a self-reflexive commentary on film-making in a world that has changed dramatically in the last eighteen months. It seems a revolutionary piece of art, exploring the process of film-making in a world slowly healing from a global disaster. Burnham wanders around his apartment, cluttered with…
TV, Venue
Reality Television, Audience Perceptions, and Mental Health
Being dissatisfied with our lives is a part of the human experience. We have all, at some point, felt inadequate when compared to other people around us, like we are lagging behind and cannot get ahead no matter how hard we try or how many things we achieve. Luckily for us, switching on the screen…
Creative Writing
A Safe Space
Therapy always began with a silence, the kind of dreadful silence that was desperate to speak. They asked him how he felt. He panicked. He always panicked when they asked him anything to do with feelings. The corners of his lips curled towards the broken fan above, the fan that turned slowly in the occasional…
Features
A mental health boost, but is it enough?
On 5th March, the Government announced an additional £79 million boost to mental health support for children and young people. Stating an additional “3 million children in England to be supported by mental health support teams in schools, around 22,500 more children and young people to access community mental health services and 2,000 more children…
Sport
It is Okay to Not be Okay: FC Not Alone
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK. On average, 125 people in the UK take their own lives. Every. Single. Week. With approximately three quarters of this saddening statistic being male, more needs to be done to encourage men to engage in open discussion about their mental…
Features
UEA Ballet’s ‘Love Your Leo’ Campaign 2021
Starting this week and running until the 8th March, UEA Ballet are running our annual body positivity campaign, ‘Love Your Leo(tard)’. This will be the third year that we have run this campaign as a society, and each year we aim to raise more money for our chosen charities, Beat and Eating Matters. These charities…
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