Event Details

Join us and have a post-breakfast cuppa on Saturday, engaging with stories of how everyday things and places affect our wellbeing, narrated and co-developed by students, a researcher and an artist.

Stairs, mugs, parks, cakes, mobile phones.. You interact with things and environments every day. And they affect you.

If you wish to know more about how everyday things and places affect our mental health and wellbeing and/or give us your own opinion, join our interactive PUBLIC webinar!

This webinar builds on the project Things and the mind by Lancaster University and Smarten*, the UK's biggest student mental health network.

We collected survey data and stories gracefully provided by a number of students nationally and internationally of diverse ages and characteristics. We turned reported experiences into a book of illustrated stories, or, in other words, an amazing graphic novel! This seminar presents and discusses the impact of material culture on our lives, stories in the graphic novel as well as survey results kindly provided by more than 150 participants.

By participating and registering, you will gain:

• free online access to the illustrated book/graphic novel about how everyday things and environments affect our mind and emotions - this mean we will send a link to your e-mail address by the end of the year

• a preview of a number of pages from the graphic novel during the webinar

• a greater appreciation and awareness of how everyday things and environments affect our wellbeing

• a special opportunity to engage with and contribute to research and its evaluation, we value your opinion.

1. *We gratefully acknowledge the support from the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences.

2. *The project has been funded by the Student Mental Health Research network/SMaRteN, funded by UK Research and Innovation and their support is gratefully acknowledged (Grant reference: ES/S00324X/1). Any views expressed here are those of the project investigators and do not necessarily represent the views of the SMaRteN network or UKRI.