mental health and wellbeing

As a lively buzz begins to return to campus, I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a warm welcome to the 2023-24 academic year. There’s something about this time of year - it always feels like a...

In my last blog, I took a moment to reflect as semester 2 ended and undergraduate students finished assessments. This time, I’m keen to highlight our staff and students for whom the summer isn’t always a period of rest and...

In this video, Professor Cassie Wilson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), and Professor Rajani Naidoo, Vice-President (Community & Inclusion) provide the latest update on the anti-harassment project - Be The Change. The video includes information on the project re-launch, progress to date,...

As part of University Mental Health Day 2023 (Thursday 9th March), I took the opportunity to find out about an important male mental health initiative here at the University. Earlier this month I had the pleasure of meeting one of...

In this joint blog, Professor Cassie Wilson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), and Rajani Naidoo, Vice-President (Community & Inclusion), reflect on the University’s upcoming Mental Health Charter visit and what this means for our community. We are excited to be joined on...

As we reach the midpoint between the start of the academic year and winter vacation, this can often be a time when students, and especially new students, may struggle if they are still feeling homesick or have not made the...

World Suicide Prevention Day was established in 2003 with the very simple aim of focusing attention on the issue, reducing the stigma around suicide, raising awareness across our communities, and giving a message that suicide can be prevented. The latest...

At the start of the month I attended the Pastoral Support Training for Personal Tutors (Student support staff training (bath.ac.uk)) run by the Student Policy and Safeguarding team. The team are running sessions for both personal tutors and doctoral supervisors...

In the second of my blogs about pastoral support for our students, I chatted to Rob Heyes from Student Support about the new Be Well App and other resources that students can access to help manage their wellbeing and mental...

One of my key areas of responsibility as PVC (SE) is student wellbeing and pastoral support. Most of us are familiar with Student Support Services and what a brilliant job they do in supporting our students but one thing I...