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Lancaster University elevates student counselling and mental health services with Symplicity Advocate

Symplicity

Symplicity ® Advocate™ renowned worldwide for student case management with over 300 universities in its network, is thrilled to welcome Lancaster University as a new partner in the United Kingdom.

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Student mental health at Edinburgh: An introduction from the Director of Student Wellbeing

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Supporting students to flourish at university- enabling them to maintain positive mental health and a healthy lifestyle- facilitates strong academic outcomes. We also need to ensure we have the right systems in place to support staff to manage their own mental health. I hope you can engage and contribute!

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Supporting student journeys

Teaching Matters Academic Support

For a student to navigate a path through this minefield, one must be ‘on the ball’ from day one, bringing an armoury of skills ranging from computer literacy, timetabling and map-reading to juggling, negotiating and generally managing the complex aspects of independent living, often for the first time.

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What is burnout and what does it feel like?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Tessa discusses what it feels like, its prevalence, impact, and signposts helpful resources for managing it. The World Health Organisation (WHO) characterises burnout as ‘an occupational phenomenon’ They define it as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Some highlights from the last reporting cycle are as follows… Sharing complex student casework Several services have experienced an increase in demand from students facing complex welfare or mental health issues in the past couple of years. She manages the Student Support Services’ annual review process.

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Wellbeing matters. But how can we enhance wellbeing across the academic community?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Dennis is a PhD student and Managing Director of Psychreg. There is growing recognition that mental and physical wellbeing is of ever-increasing importance and concern to students in higher education. The University of Edinburgh has created a dedicated Health and Wellbeing Centre for students.

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Top ten Teaching Matters posts of 2021

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

. “Generating immersive large-scale virtual field work for Zoology students” : [link] Richard Fitzpatrick (Deanery of Biomedical Sciences) & Prof Tom Little (School of Biology) brilliantly demonstrate how they managed to replicate in-person field experience through a highly interactive digital environment.