10th October is World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is “Our Minds, Our Rights”, with a focus on how good mental health should be a basic human right for everyone, no matter their situation or circumstance.
At Digital Science, we offer a range of initiatives to support healthy bodies and minds for our workforce, so that we can best serve our amazing research community and enable them to do the most groundbreaking, societally-impactful work.
John and I sat down with Danielle Feger, Digital Science’s Global Health and Wellbeing Manager, to talk about the link between mental health and physical health, the challenges we must overcome to destigmatise mental health, the need for awareness days, and the initiatives that Digital Science has implemented to help both our internal and external communities.
Here’s our chat in full – if the embedded video doesn’t show below, you can watch it directly on YouTube:
For the resources I mention at the end of the chat, you can find Dr Zoë Ayres’s book, Managing your Mental Health during your PhD: A Survival Guide, here, and Dr Petra Boynton’s book, Being Well in Academia: Ways to Feel Stronger, Safer and More Connected (Insider Guides to Success in Academia), here.
You can also learn more about World Mental Health Day, particularly this year’s theme, on the World Health Organization website.
