School of Health & Wellbeing

University of Glasgow links

• Coronavirus: information for staff and students 
• Glasgow Anywhere webpage
  Information about connecting remotely to your Standard Staff Desktop, using remote working software, how to access related training etc
• IT helpdesk
  For support with specific IT issues
• UofG Sport: social distancing fitness and wellbeingOnline content to keep us active and motivated, and ideas to help us eat well, sleep well and exercise. 
• University of Glasgow FAQs
  Advice and support for students, advice and support for staff, examinations and assessments, travel advice, health, advice and support for offer holders and future students, 
• FAQs for MVLS staff
  Answers to queries relating to research ethics, research applications and funders, PGR students, applying for funding, changes to normal working practices, facilities (i.e. critical buildings), volunteering with the NHS
• UofG research response to coronavirus
  MRC/University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research's role in combatting the coronavirus pandemic
• Homeworking: computer set up tips
  Basic tips from UofG's Safety and Environmental Protection Service on how to set up a safe work area 

IHW resources

• Helpful hints and practical advice
  IHW has set up an advice and support webpage. Content includes practical advice for working from home, activities with your family, and self-care and wellbeing. (If you would like to contribute to this page, please submit your suggestion to our online suggestion box or send to ihwadmin@glasgow.ac.uk)
• Support for staff and students
  If you are struggling at this time, please make contact with your line manager or supervisor, or the IHW admin team. We are here to help. 

External links

• NHS Inform Scotland
• WHO Novel Coronavirus
• Latest Government advice
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office: country-specific advice
• Government advice for self-isolation
• NHS self-isolation advice
• Scottish Government

Looking after ourselves 

• Washing our hands (NHS video)
• Looking after your mental health during coronavirus outbreak (Mental Health Foundation)
• "Why you should ignore all that Coronavirus-inspired productivity pressure" (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Keeping in touch and staying connected

• IHW's two twitter accounts - @UofGIHW (general interest) & @IHWAthenaSWAN (equality, diversity, wellbeing) - will continue to post information, and messages of support and solidarity. We would encourage you to follow us and tag us so that we can retweet posts that may help or be of interest to other staff and students #IHWLife 
• The University of Glasgow social media team are working hard to keep staff informed and spirits up. Their twitter account is available at @UofGlasgow #quaranTeamUoG
• Please also consider joining social events on Zoom, as and when they take place. Invites and links to sign up pages will be sent to your University of Glasgow email account. 
• If you have a mentor, we would encourage you to meet remotely, and for these sessions to include a discussion of how you are coping with the challenges (practical and emotional) of the current circumstances. If you don't currently have a mentor but would like to be assigned one, please visit our mentorship webpage for further details. (Mentorship is available to staff from all job families and to PhD students via the ECR/PhD mentorship scheme.)
• There is a Yammer group for professional services staff which is available here

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First published: 14 March 2018