Looking out for each other in the Vet School
May 23, 2017
By Zara Abas, Teaching Intern Staff Student Liaison Officer At Nottingham Vet School, we pride ourselves on our commitment to staff and student welfare. We recently launched #Lookoutforeachother, our school-wide mental health and wellbeing awareness campaign which has rapidly gained momentum over the last year. Thanks to generous funding from Nottingham Cascade, we have been able …
Dementia Awareness – A pop-up café with unexpected results
May 19, 2017
By Justine Schneider, Professor of Mental Health and Social Care, Faculty of Social Sciences We celebrated Dementia Awareness Week 2017 with an installation in Nottingham’s Market Square. The aim was to showcase art works produced by people with dementia, to raise awareness and to have fun. The café had been conceived by Victoria Tischler as an …
Month of the Mind – Upcoming Events
May 8, 2017
During May, the People and Culture team will be running the second annual Month of the Mind. We are excited to work with Rough Trade again this year to deliver a second In Your Head event after its success during our Disability December events programme last year. The event will take place on Tuesday 9 …
The School of Health Sciences shares best practice around staff wellbeing
January 30, 2017
The School of Health Sciences was the first at the University to develop a school-based health and wellbeing programme for staff, embedding workplace health and wellbeing within the school strategy and organisational structures and as such are currently informing wellbeing strategies for other schools and the wider University. Associate Professor Dr Holly Blake has chaired the school …
Workplace wellbeing: Smart objects and healthier workplace behaviours
December 1, 2016
Horizon CDT student, Yitong Huang was recently successful in securing funding from the EPSRC funded Balance Network to deliver a design workshop to look at how smart objects can be co-designed to motivate healthier workplace behaviours. The half day event was held on 19 October at The University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus, with attendees from …
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