This year’s University Mental Health Day theme is ‘human connection’. So of course, we have to start with the (arguably?) opposite: Artificial Intelligence! AI-driven chatbots have become a popular mental health advice source amidst lack of other support and a growing sense of disconnection and loneliness.   AI and mental health Mental health advice The […]

  This February, Digital Safety Officer, Ricarda, teamed up with Campus Security and Information Security colleagues to run scams and fraud awareness stalls for international students. We tied the stalls in with Lunar New Year due to a high number of scams currently directly targeting Chinese students in the UK. As it’s the year of the fire horse, the team couldn’t […]

It’s Safer Internet Day and the theme in 2026 is ‘Smart tech, safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI’. Over the coming days, we will publish tips and info on how to recognise Artificial Intelligence (AI) online and use it responsibly. But first, let’s review the basics of keeping yourself safe […]

The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise.  However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]

This Disability History Month (20 November – 20 December 2025) we reflect and learn how to be more inclusive as digital citizens and shape an accessible future for technology.  During December, we encouraged students across campus to reflect on their online accessibility basics and take digital citizenship seriously with the latest digital safety info poster (poster text […]

It is International Human Rights Day, so we are exploring what human rights have to do with digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship. Are the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sufficiently covering a changing digital world? How can we use human rights to become better digital citizens? And is digital inclusion a human […]

Today, the 25th of November, is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This marks the start of 16 Days of Activism – a campaign to end gender-based violence.  Over half of all women and girls world-wide have experienced some form of harassment online. The United Nation’s theme for 16 Days of Activism in […]

Exciting news! On the 15th of August, we are running a digital detox webinar for staff and students wishing to learn more about how they can foster a more meaningful and healthier relationship with technology. We will be exploring how digital tech impacts our lives, what the benefits of a digital detox are and how […]

In this article, I discuss how journaling can help build self awareness in relation to starting or continuing a digital detox. The idea of building self awareness into screen time came to me when I was considering how integrated technology has become to our daily lives, and in my case as a twenty-two year old, […]

  In this blog, we explore how to start a digital detox, and how to keep it sustainable and specific to your needs. But what is a digital detox? It really can be whatever you need to do to reduce your screen time or set a boundary with digital devices. For some people this can […]