If we are going to consider our digital wellbeing, a useful first step is to reflect on your own interactions with technology, media, and digital communications. We need to gain …
Awareness campaigns have been trying to improve our understanding of mental health for a long time. World Mental Health Day has been going since the early ’90s; Australia has been …
Having looked at what we mean by wellbeing, it’s time to explore the relationship between wellbeing and mental health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describe mental health as an integral …
Wellbeing refers to our sense of self and our ability to live our lives as closely as possible to the way we want to. It encapsulates the abilities to have …
The overall theme for this first week of our course is ‘Digital technology and wellbeing’, and we’ll be breaking that down into two activities: 1. What is digital wellbeing? Digital …
How this all works You will work independently through the course at your own pace. All of the course content is now available to you, so if you need to, …
The likelihood is that you’ve received an email – from your workplace, from a company, from a utility provider, maybe even from your government – talking about “unprecedented times”. We …
The data we can gather and interpret opens up a lot of opportunities. We make decisions based on other people’s reviews (even when those people are halfway around the world), …
For most of us living under lockdown, our screentime will have increased. Whether working or studying online, staying connected with friends and family, catching up with the news, watching a …
Life under lockdown has changed the way we socialise… It is no-longer safe to meet friends and family outside our own households. Events like gigs, concerts, theatre performances and cinema …