• A woman practicing meditation

    The Strength of Sensitivity

    Alice Bennett Being sensitive can come with a lot of challenges, like being misunderstood and dismissed as a ‘crybaby’ or ‘snowflake’ but Alice Bennett highlights the lesser talked about strengths of being a highly sensitive person.  If you feel everything more intensely, are prone to crying at seemingly small...
  • Does Art Make Us Human?

    In the book I read for GCSE ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazou Ishiguro, the antagonists are clones who are strongly encouraged to do art as children in their dystopian school. As adults they go looking for answers as to why their art was so sacred and are met...
  • How I Coped With Doubt And Pressure In Sports Training

    Jennie offers a personal account of her experiences playing basketball and how skills learned in training helped her develop both on and off the court...
  • Creative Corner: ‘Mental Wellbeing & Mindfulness’ Showcase

    This months collection of poetry focuses on the extremely important subject of mental health and wellbeing. This showcase is coming to you mid exam season – and for a good reason – to show that you’re not in this alone! So, without further ado, on with the poems…  Breathe...
  • Mindfulness: what’s the point?

    In a recent article by BPS Research Digest, Christian Jarrett claims that ‘perhaps teens are too cynical to benefit from mindfulness’. Based off negative research findings by Flinders University in Australia, the article explains a study in which a group of children were exposed to mindfulness practices to see...
  • Healthy Impact: Headaches

    5 years ago I graduated from UoN and began working in the NHS as a junior doctor. Now I’m back at the Uni, this time as a postgrad studying Medical Education, while working as a GP in a local practice. For this article in my new Healthy Impact series i’m...
  • Mindfulness and Meditation: The Ancient Arts For Combating Stress

    One of my dad’s friends, a stressed out father of three once said to me, ‘life throws you one wild card – and that’s university.’ Indeed, the vast majority of us launch ourselves into fresher’s week with the expectation that the three years ahead of us will be the...