This week on Wellbeing, we speak with John Fischetti, a professor of education from the University of Newcastle. In this episode we discuss student wellbeing in universities. John has seen wellbeing become a main focus of universities in his four decades in the educational field. Seeing student wellbeing going from being a topic rarely, if ever, discussed when he was first at uni as a student in the mid 70’s, to now when he is a professor in a university where it is talked about everyday.  

In this episode, Prof. Fischetti talks about the role universities play in student wellbeing, the improvement in the wellbeing of students since returning from online studies during the lockdown period, the wellbeing topics on the radar of universities, the need for students to have movement in their day, the wellbeing support services available for students, the pressure of examinations, and how far the area of student wellbeing has progressed in the last 40 years. 

“Some students pull that all-nighter still or they don’t really start on their Uni work 'til 11 or midnight - I’ve not seen anybody's best work happen then. You feel busy, you might be hyped up, you might be stressed, but what I would rather do is we flipped it. If you're going to be with friends and socialising from six to ten, then working on your uni work from ten to one, flip it around.” - Prof. John Fischetti on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in next week when we discuss student wellbeing in schools with a teacher from the UK.   

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