Events

When : 14th March 2024

Where : Sir Duncan Rice Library

Time : 11:00 - 11:30

What helps you stay mentally healthy at work? Share your tips at our pop-up event or online, for a chance to win a Sunrise Alarm Clock!

You’ll find lots of helpful advice and resources to support your mental wellbeing from UoA support services and mental health charities, Men Who Talk and SAMH.

Let’s talk and help remove the stigma!

Check out our resources for this University Mental Health Day 2024!

When : 15th May 2024

Where : Rowett Institute, Atrium

Time : 10:30 - 12:30

The wellbeing team are going on the road.  

Between March and August 2024 the staff wellbeing roadshow will be coming to a building near you in the form of an information stall with interactive activities, all designed to better inform, empower and support you in relation to wellbeing and mental health.

We would encourage you to take 10 minutes to pop along to a roadshow near you to say hello, pick up some useful information and make time for your wellbeing. 

"Thinking about collaborative methods and the Flourishing Lives Project", Professor Sara Ryan

This session featured a talk by Prof Sara Ryan from Manchester Metropolitan University titled: "Thinking about collaborative methods and the Flourishing Lives Project." Sara is a Professor of Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people and her work encompasses scholar activism.

Sara spoke to us about the value of and strategies to meaningfully include people with learning disabilities in health and wellbeing research.
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Dying to Give Birth? Black Women and Maternal Mortality in the UK, Dr Jenny Douglas

In October we held our EDI student seminar for postgraduate students where we were fortunate to have Dr Jenny Douglas present on black womens maternal health and the challenges they face in the UK. 

Dr Jenny Douglas is a senior lecturer in Health Promotion in the faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. The focus of her research and activism is intersectionality - exploring how `race', class and gender affect particular aspects of African - Caribbean women's health. She established and chairs the Black Women's Health and Wellbeing Research Network (https://wels.open.ac.uk/research/projects/black-womens-health-wellbeing-research-network), and is a medical sociologist with a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of York. In addition to this she was a visiting scholar at George Washington University, USA, during the tenure of a National Centre for Research Methods fellowship on intersectionality informed research methods. She is an honarary member of the faculty of Public Health, a director of the UK Public Health Register and a Trustee of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness.