'Mental Health Promotion' is one of the four priority areas of the University's Student Mental Health Strategy, alongside: Leadership; Mental Health Support; and Impact.
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Our mental aim
- We want to work proactively - and in partnership with the Students’ Association and the Sports Union - to promote improved student mental health and wellbeing and to campaign against stigma.
- We want to integrate healthy behaviours and promote positive mental health within the university’s educational and research mission, within the curriculum and in our co-curricular activities.
What we are currently doing
- We promote a wide-ranging programme of activities and events for Mental Health and Wellbeing Week and our #LetsTalk campaign.
- Our work on student ‘sense of belonging’ has put forward a range of recommendations relevant to improved student mental health.
- We work in partnership on student communications, drawing in teams across the University, including Residence Life, the Students’ Association and the Sports Union.
- We have developed a range of supportive links with local mental health services external to the University.
What we want to do in future
- We will develop an annual student mental health promotion plan, with collaborative contributions from across the University to cover a wide range of issues relevant to student wellbeing.
- We will continue to develop our student mental health services across the proactive/ responsive spectrum.
- Our new Health and Wellbeing Centre, along with our service bases across the campus, will act as a focus for mental health and wellbeing promotion, and as a base for related events and activities.
- We will seek to consolidate our work on student ‘sense of belonging’ to sustain best practices into the future.
- Our Doctoral College will promote improved student wellbeing as a key strand in their work with research students.
- We will work with colleagues on the Curriculum Transformation Programme to embed wellbeing and self-care within the curriculum across the University.