Digital accessibility: Wellbeing

Find them online and on campus to support your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Includes how to:
Read a book like a jigsaw puzzle
Organize your thoughts
Improve your concentration

Understand how you think and learn
Take control of your learning with strategies
Improve your grammar, spelling and punctuation

A simple to use meditation app. Meditation has been shown to help people stress less, focus more and even sleep better. Headspace is meditation made simple. It will teach you the life-changing skills of meditation and mindfulness in just a few minutes a day.

Podcasts for your wellbeing from the Mental Health Foundation

Hosted by coach Dr. Sandra Gaudenzi, this podcast helps with the little and big challenges of student life and invites you to listen to your internal “blabla”, and hopefully, learn from it!

Mixing practical advice, coaching exercises and visualisations, it offers a moment of self-discovery that is soothing and deeply transformative.

Find it for free on the following streaming services:

In which a new skill is demonstrated every day for Amazon Echo or Alexa.

By Robin Christopherson, head of digital inclusion for AbilityNet.

Mindfulness can help us enjoy life more and understand ourselves better. You can take steps to develop it in your own life.

Free colouring games for adults, try a colouring book anywhere, anytime without internet for free.

You can colour and recolour the blank pages from the book online or offline.

A distraction blocker app. This is ideal for those who find it hard to concentrate on one task . Cold Turkey allows you to block sites such as social media sites whilst in study time:

Choose from a variety of topic areas:
Academic: creative writing society
Common Interest: baking
Cultural: Albanian Society

Inability to study
Poor concentration
Depression
Relationship problems
Bereavement

Find these titles at each campus library in the R & R area for a cosy, relaxing read.

Connect with other people
Be physically active
Learn new skills
Give to others
Pay attention to the present moment

Understand how you've been feeling recently

Check how you're feeling, with the mood self-assessment and listen to a doctor explaining what you can do to help yourself cope with

The first step to feeling better is to identify the cause
"In life, there's always a solution to a problem," says Professor Cary Cooper, an occupational health expert at the University of Lancaster

This calming breathing technique for stress, anxiety and panic takes just a few minutes and can be done anywhere

Regular exercise can boost your mood if you have depression

Join the club to reduce stress with home workouts.

Find training of varying endurance and forms, for mobility and strength, from short, 15-minute workouts to longer endurance sessions

How to contact your GP surgery
Urgent medical care
Urgent dental treatment
Life-threatening emergencies

One-to-one pastoral and spiritual support
Appointments online or by phone
See also quiet or contemplation and prayer rooms listed at each site

Tell us if you have experienced or witnessed the following:
Bullying and harassment
Discrimination
Hate crime
Sexual misconduct

Concerned, worried or in need of specialist support?
Having trouble settling into university life?
Need to register with a doctor?
Need to get your jab?

UK student mental health charity.

Tips on starting university, exam stress, managing finances and studying abroad.

Empowering you to build your own mental health toolkit for support through university life and beyond.