This week on Wellbeing, we speak with John Fischetti, a professor of education from the University of Newcastle. In this episode, following on from my last interview with Professor Fischetti a few months ago, we discuss the changing attitudes to 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 being a professor in at a university where student wellbeing is talked about every day.  

In this episode, Professor Fischetti talks about the development of student wellbeing becoming a part of unis, the support services available to students at unis, more wellbeing friendly examination methods, the importance of good nutrition for students on campus, meeting the wellbeing needs of a diverse range of students and the supports available for indigenous students.  

“Students are so busy, most of our students working while they are going to school and rushing, not taking the time to eat right and you add that to not sleep and maybe a little extra caffeine, you end up in a burnout mode...and that’s just not healthy.” - Prof. John Fishchetti on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in in the New Year when we begin a series on Anorexia.  

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