Healthcare innovation focus for lecture showcase
Reading time: < 1 minute Three University lecturers will reveal how their work is transforming healthcare at an inaugural lecture series.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Looking after your mind and body.
How the University is leading the world’s largest study of ME/CFS
Reading time: 5 minutes When Sarah Ford-Hutchinson, Head of Communications in the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) two years ago, she had a “gut-wrenching realisation that there is currently no cure”. “When you get diagnosed with a chronic long-term illness out of the blue it has …
Seasons of mist and mellow fruitlessness
Reading time: 4 minutes Two days in a row I have woken to thick sea fog cloaking the gardens. My view from the window is foreshortened; as I return Hope from her morning amble my footsteps sound thicker than usual, a subtle quality, the sound contained by mist. As we round the corner, turrets, …
A year of Hope
Reading time: 4 minutes This month, Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain, reflects on the lessons learned from life with a dog and how such unique bonds can sustain us.
Free online self care and wellbeing course
Reading time: 2 minutes A free, online, short course from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is helping those on the frontline of health and social care cope with physical, mental and emotional fatigue.
The Fallow Field
Reading time: 3 minutes This month, Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain, reflects on seeking beauty in the midst of ugliness, and the promise of the future when all seems lost.