Resources
Resources
Here you will find previous workshop slides and other resources created by your wellbeing team.
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The Student Hub have compiled a helpful list of possible topics and resources on challenges you may come across. This A-Z list is available here.
This is a useful workshop to view during the summer or january exam window. The session, first delivered in May 2022, provides help and advice on how best to study and revise alongside looking after your wellbeing. The slides are here.
Do you know who to go to if you have questions about a specific issue? This presentation provides information about, and who to contact if you need help with Accommodation, Assessments, Finance, Safety, Study, Visas and Wellbeing.
You can access the recording of Connecting to Support here
The current cost of living crisis is affecting everyone, with increases in utility bills, food prices and transport costs.
The university has created a hub to bring together all the support we offer in one place.
This workshop, hosted in November 2025, is about how you navigate the challenges of working in a group, and the fears and worries about then possibly presenting, either in a group or individually. The slides are available here.
Struggling with procrastination is understandable, given the pressures of academic life. This workshop explained why we procrastinate, and what we can do to counter it.
This workshop, delivered October 2025, explained many aspects of University culture that might be unfamiliar to international or new students: who everyone is, how things work, how you learn, how we teach, how you are assessed and how to ask for help. The slides from this workshop are available here.
You can access the recording of Understanding UK University Culture Here
These sessions will help you manage the stresses and worries around your independent study module. This has been delivered to both undergraduates and postgraduates.
The undergraduate version is available here.
The slides from Postgraduate part 1 are available here, and the slides from Postgraduate part 3 are available here.
In collaboration with with the Early Careers Network, Open Door Practitioners and Wellbeing Officers delivered this session on balancing teaching and researching alongside your other commitments. Topics include work/life balance, stress management, anxiety response, imposter syndrome, and perfectionsim. This will hopefully be of interest to ECRs, PGRs, and GTAs. You can find the slides here.
This workshop was specifically for students either resitting exams, taking exams 'as if for the first time' as a result of a successful exceptional circumstances claim, or for students who deferred exams due to a self-certification. The slides are available here.
This online session detailed the benefits to your wellbeing of sport, exercise, being outdoors and being in nature, as well as opportunities to do this in York. The slides are available here.
The cold weather and dark days of winter can be a challenge to our wellbeing. Many of us may experience the ‘winter blues.’ This workshop, most recently delivered in November 2024, first explains that challenge, and will then provides guidance, advice and support, so that you can counter it and prevent it.