Mental health and well-being

Advice on effective mental health support for students and staff to create a happier, healthier campus. Find out how universities and academics can promote well-being, protect their campus community from spiralling stress, minimise the risk of burnout and build resilience - from institutional practices that create a culture of care to personal self-care tips and healthy habits for overworked academics and students.

By Eliza.Compton , 2 April, 2026

Lessons from being academic chair of a complex department

Mangoes on a tree
Being a department head takes both emotional and cognitive energy to juggle people, programmes, contracts and institutional demands. But digging into skills such as trust-building and communication will bear fruit, writes Ben K. Daniel
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton , 31 March, 2026

Whose vulnerabilities get seen? Whose get missed?

Black male student looking downcast in university corridor
When student circumstances fall outside standard support categories, their difficulties can deepen. This means hardship of groups such as caregivers or international students grows quietly, until it becomes much harder to address
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton , 6 March, 2026

What does it mean to ‘make it’ in academia?

Illustration of man climbing a mountain of books
The arrival fallacy can eat into scholars’ sense of achievement, reducing milestones to prerequisites for the next step. Here, Rachel Hagan shares ways to redefine success and acknowledge even quiet wins
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4minutes
Mental health and well-being