Tag: mental-health
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Supporting Our Community Following the Death of Professor Jason Arday
UCU Sussex extends its condolences to all those affected by the death of Professor Jason Arday. We recognise that this news may have affected colleagues in different ways. Professor Arday’s scholarship, public engagement and advocacy held particular significance for many Black colleagues and colleagues from other racialised and minoritised backgrounds. His passing, alongside the public…
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Collective Consultation meeting, June 18th 2026
Wellbeing, Organisational Stress Risk Assessment and Equality Impact Analyses UNISON, UNITE and UCU joint report The second collective consultation meeting was focused on the EDI and wellbeing related aspects of the redundancy proposals. This covered the wellbeing support available to staff, the organisational stress risk assessment and the equality impact analyses conducted for both the…
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In-person teaching during the pandemic: is it really about student mental health?
Over the last few months, the issue of student mental health has moved to the centre of debates in or around UK Higher Education. It is seldom away from newspaper headlines, government guidelines or communications from Vice Chancellors, including Adam Tickell at Sussex, whose weekly ‘View from the VC’ on 11 September marked the point…
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Face to face teaching and voluntary on-campus work
We note the messages to staff and students in the last few days from the VC, the PVC for Education, and the Chief Operating Officer, as well as the email to all staff Return to campus: guidance for all staff, and the most recent Return to campus webinar. A consistent theme of these messages is…
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