School of Health & Wellbeing

Is there something you'd like to share about your experience of working or studying in Institute of Health and Wellbeing (including in the realm of equality, diversity and inclusion) that colleagues might find interesting or helpful, would relate to or feel empathy with?

As part of our efforts to make IHW's monthly newsletter, HAWKEYE, balanced, inclusive and relatable, we are looking for reflective, blog-type content to add to our recently-launched "IHW voices" section, so do get in touch if you would like to contribute.

Examples of pieces written from a more personal perspective have included: 

"5-minutes with..." 

2022

• Susan Grant (General Practice and Primary Care/IHW)
• Julie Langan-Martin (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
• Elaine Hindle (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences)
• Peter Macfarlane (Electrocardiology)

2021

• Elaine Rodgers (Robertson Centre for Biostatistics)
• Rona Strawbridge and Rachel Allan (Mental Health and Wellbeing and IHW Admin)
• Katie Gallacher (General Practice and Primary Care)
• Lorna Dick (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit)
• Petra Meier (MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit)
• Karen Penman (General Practice and Primary Care)
• Houra Haghpanahan (Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment)
• Moira Sim (Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment)
• Jana Anderson (Public Health)
• Rebecca Robinson (IHW Admin/WOW group)

2020

• Tiago Zortea (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
• Audrey Dickie (IHW Admin)

Career development 

• Changes are scary but there is not much to lose and a lot to gain
  Paula Olmo

Research-related 

• To boldly go where no IHW staff member has gone before: a PhD by published works
  Joey Ward
• It was long, it was monotonous, it was intense
  Victoria Palmer
• Who am I (work edition)?
  Laura Ward
• Unpopular science: you can't please all of the people all of the time
  Claire Hastie

Teaching and learning-related 

• We have reached an age where we know that a PhD is not the main priority in life
  Nicola McMeekin and Janet Bouttell
• Experience meets empathy: from student to student mental health adviser
  Comfort Kyeremeh

Parenting and caring 

• I thought everyone had heard of sandwich caring
  IHW WOW (Wellbeing of Older Workers) group
• It was wonderful being entirely present for the first 3 months of her life
  Samuel Leighton

Equality, diversity and inclusion 

• I thought love could not be a thing in this world
  Rafael Venson

Black Lives Matter 

• In that moment, I suddenly felt that I too could not breathe 
  Rayana Mohammed
• It is unfair. It is wrong. It is heartbreaking. It hurts. 
  Patrice Reid
• Black students and academics don't need performative allyship, we need change 
  Ruth Agbakoba

COVID-19

• Reflections on redeployment 
  Julie Langan Martin
• I'm not sure of this world I'm working in 
  Suzy Syrett
• Are you finished yet Mummy? 
  Miriam Yentumi
• Keeping work going as well as caring for our children has been challenging 
  Chris Bunn
• I started to feel there was something important I could help with 
  Katie Robb

Wellbeing 

• It was very daunting but I had great support
  Lynsay Matthews

Work/life balance

• I had torn leggings, skint knees and a bruised ego but 35 miles in the bag
  Audrey Dickie

200 words is plenty (although there is no strict word limit), the style can be informal, and we welcome short pieces from ANYONE within the IHW community, both staff – research, teaching and professional services – and students. 

We hope you find this an interesting, informative and enjoyable addition to HAWKEYE, and will consider contributing, either now or in the future. If you would like to discuss your idea for a piece, please contact jane.goodfellow@glasgow.ac.uk, or send your content direct to ihwadmin@glasgow.ac.uk. 

The HAWKEYE Team (Jane, Aud and Asha)

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First published: 23 September 2020