From today students at UEA are now able to opt-in to a mental health initiative allowing the University to inform a person of the student’s choice about significant concerns over a student’s welfare via e:Vision. In a statement the University said: “The opt-in contact scheme is another way in which the University has implemented a…
News
Dancing and dog walking for mental health event on campus
Uea(su) and Student Services (STS) will hold a day of events and drop in sessions at the Exhibition Space in the Hive on March 5 to promote positive mental wellbeing. There will be a whole range of activities, from dog walks to a free tap dance class. The Vice Chancellor and STS staff will also…
Interview
Student Services ‘very appreciated by students and delivers really good services’
Even though the Student Services (STS) building is wedged between the Square, Union House and the library, and is at the centre of UEA’s campus, it still feels slightly out of the way. I’m sitting in a meeting room with UEA’s mental health chiefs: Jon Sharp, director of STS; Claire Pratt, head of wellbeing; and…
Features, Interview
Beef, Brexit, and how uea(su) does represent UEA students
After a hectic week within uea(su) largely focussed on Union Council’s decision to stop the SU selling beef, campaigns and democracy officer Sophie Atherton and I sat down to discuss what she’s been getting up to in her second year within the role. We met in a bookable room in Union House, away from the…
Travel
A guide to adventuring without anxiety
Anxiety can negatively impact your wellbeing, and having an anxiety attack whilst travelling can be detrimental to how much you enjoy your trip. Everyone uses travelling as an opportunity to explore new places, spend time with family and friends, and relax. However, someone’s travel anxiety can get in the way of all of this. For…
Features
We need to get our house in order: how the Community wellbeing discussion shows the need for solution-based thinking.
On Wednesday 9th October in the Drama Studio on UEA campus, there was a Community Wellbeing discussion. The discussion was led by Alison Donnell and Nick Walsh. Even though the event was two hours long, the session focussed on a lot of important issues which are being neglected around campus. The event opened with a…
Science
Is the key to wellbeing in culture?
As a society we are obsessed with wellbeing and happiness. Everyone has their own definition of wellbeing and their own method of striving towards it. But what if the key to happiness is in something more substantial and encompassing, say, culture? Firstly, what is happiness? This is obviously one of the most open-ended questions known…
News
UEA Community Wellbeing discussion
The UEA Wellbeing Interest Network (WIN) have organised an event to address the possibilities of creating a healthier culture at UEA. WIN has organised this discussion following the document called ‘We Will Be Heard’ which the UEA’s Student Union published last academic year. WIN also encourages everyone studying and working at UEA to engage with…
Travel
The transformative nature of travel
While I’ve always loved travelling, it was only through difficult circumstances that I realised quite how transformative it can be. After finishing school, I found myself on an unplanned gap year due to a mental breakdown, in the most medical sense of the term. I’d hidden the symptoms of mental illness for years, burying them…
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