Welcome to Healthy Universities

A Healthy University aspires to create a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances the health, wellbeing and sustainability of its community and enables people to achieve their full potential.

This website has been developed as part of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded project Developing Leadership and Governance for Healthy Universities.  It supports a whole university approach to health and wellbeing and facilitates national networking.

National Network

The English National Healthy Universities was established in 2006 and aims to offer a facilitative environment for the development of a whole university approach to health and wellbeing. 

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National Network


If you have any comments about the site, or ideas about how it can be improved please contact us at healthyuniversities@uclan.ac.uk.

Developing Leadership and Governance

HEFCE

Developing Leadership and Governance for Healthy Universities is led by the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester Metropolitan University, working together with the Royal Society for Public Health and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and partnered by Leeds Trinity University College, Nottingham Trent University, Teesside University and the University of the West of England. It is funded by HEFCE's Leadership, Governance and Management Fund.

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Latest News

Celebratory Conference - Health, Wellbeing and Stustainability - 19/06/12
This event will mark the close of the HEFCE-funded phase of ...


Preventing and Minimising Gambling Related Harm in Higher Education Communities: Project Dissemination - 15/03/12
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NUS Mental Health Toolkit - 24/02/12
This toolkit which offers information, guidance and ideas on...


Universities and Sustainability - 22/02/12
Jonathan Porritt, former chairman of the UK Sustainable Deve...


Healthy Universities Newsletter Issue 4 - 17/01/12
Issue 4 of the Healthy Universities Newsletter: this issue i...


Mental Health of Students in Higher Education - 19/12/11
This report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, published...


Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) League Table - 13/12/11
The Department of Energy and Climate Change have published t...


Learning in Future Environments (LiFE) - 05/12/11
Learning in Future Environments (LiFE) is a comprehensive pe...


Self Review Tool - 30/11/11
We are pleased to announce that the Healthy Universities Sel...


Health Impact Assessment - 25/10/11
Materials from Dissemination Workshop on Policy & Planni...


Video Clips - 18/08/11
Check out our recently added video clips...


Government White Paper on Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System - 28/06/11
The long-awaited White Paper on Higher Education in England ...


Degrees of value - 24/06/11
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