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 Laura.Duckett, 3 November, 2025

Stop asking students to be the lesson and focus on choice and consent

A group of students discussing something on an iPad
When students are asked to share personal stories to illustrate lessons, the emotional cost can outweigh the educational gain. Aasiya Satia explores how consent-based pedagogy can create safer, more equitable classrooms for all students
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4minutes
By kiera.obrien, 29 October, 2025

Support students’ mental health with bespoke workshops

One student comforts another with a hand on the shoulder
With mental health concerns and student suicide rates increasing, a partnership with St John Ambulance offered a practical way to support students to ask for help when they need it. Here’s how it worked
By kiera.obrien, 28 October, 2025

How to help autistic students adjust to life on campus

Students laugh over a coffee
With autistic students’ drop-out rate spiking, here’s how to help them ease into their university career, allow for neurodiversity-friendly socialising and reduce their anxiety with a furry friend
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 23 October, 2025

Dealing with division: the polarised university

An illustrated image depicting two groups of people arguing with each other headed by a leader holding a megaphone
How can universities encourage respectful disagreement, empathy and compassion while handling sensitive topics with care and protecting academic freedom – keeping higher education open, inclusive and intellectually rigorous?
By Eliza.Compton, 18 October, 2025

Compassion cuts through polarisation

Group meditation session
Compassion, not empathy, is the emotion that will cut through group polarisation and motivate constructive intergroup dialogue in higher education. Training in mindfulness-based compassion meditation can be scaled at a relatively low barrier to entry
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4minutes
Mental health and well-being