The theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 is focus is know yourself, grow yourself and aims to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. It aims to help children and young people to build resilience, grow and develop through increasing self-awareness and expressing their emotions.
November is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. You might have seen the adverts encouraging men to grow a moustache for “Movember” to signal in an overtly macho way their support for men’s mental health. Men are three times as likely …
On Wednesday 13 November 2024, the Library central heating boiler will be replaced. This vital infrastructure upgrade will ensure we heat the Library more efficiently and reliably while controlling our carbon footprint as the University works towards becoming carbon zero. This work is expected to last only for a few hours but you may notice some small changes on the day.
Friday 18 October is World Menopause Day. Since 2009, the world has celebrated the changing lives of women and campaigned to break the silence around women’s lived experience of ageing and bodily change and foster a greater awareness of the changes women experience during the menopause and the perimenopause and the support options available.
We are excited to unveil a new dedicated bookable pod for new mothers to breastfeed and express milk. Not everyone is comfortable feeding their baby or expressing milk in public, so we have introduced bookable breastfeeding pods in the Library and Richmond building exclusively to support new mothers.
For some people, crowds and noisy spaces are the stuff of nightmares. If this sounds like you, there are some simple ways to get the books you need, use the library, ask questions when you need to, avoid all the noise and bustle, and find a place to work quietly without distractions. Simply follow these simple tips…
Southsea Sangha, a vibrant community dedicated to Buddhist Meditation and Community Practice, is thrilled to announce its 10 year anniversary celebration. If you need a chance to chill and have an interest in meditation or are curious about meditation practices, reserve your spot and join the birthday celebrations from 6-9 pm on 2 June at Offbeet Café, Albert Road.
Mental Health UK found that 56% of people said regular exercise helped them manage stress and burnout but as a country, we are moving 20% less than we did in the 1960s! Find your way to buck the trend by moving in …
It’s the busiest time in the University academic year and for some of you, it may be getting a little too noisy for comfort. Happily, if you are finding the bustle and noise a little much, help is at hand.
Losing yourself in a book can have a profound impact on body and mind, akin to entering an altered state of consciousness. The effect is rapid, too. After reading for just six minutes, the average person’s stress levels fall by two-thirds as the mind is taken away from its habitual thoughts and the body relaxes. Reading works can relax you even faster than listening to music.
