Health and Wellbeing

Health and wellbeing are positively related to learning and academic success. Explore ways to maintain your physical and mental health and develop resiliency during your graduate school program.

 Services

Title Description Provider
Wellbeing Training and Education

Book workshops organized by the Health Equity, Promotion, and Education team or check out the self-directed courses. Topics include: Navigating your health and wellbeing, Mental Health: the Basics, How to help a peer, and more.

Wellness Centre
Grad Student Support Group

About the group

Are you a graduate student? Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or challenged in balancing work and life? This in-person support group is for graduate students to connect with each other in a non-judgmental and welcoming space to help navigate the unique challenges of grad school.

Wellness Centre, Counselling Services

 Resources

Title Description Provider
Dissertation Success Curriculum

The 12-week Dissertation Success online, on-demand program is designed for doctoral candidates who are focused on finishing their dissertation. Each module includes a recorded training video and resources.

Join with the University of British Columbia's subscription to the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity, then register.

National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
Health topics to take care of your health

Get information and strategies from UBC Health and Wellbeing to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  Topics include:

  • Food and nutrition
  • Sleep for success
  • Understanding stress
  • Sexual health
  • Substance use and harm reduction
  • Flu and colds

 

Wellness Centre
Hidden Handbook

A mini-series of short videos (5 - 10 mins each), to provide quick tips for success in a variety of areas across the academic sphere. Join for free with UBC's subscription, then watch.

Chapter 1: Accountability Matters: When it comes to research and writing, accountability matters. This video highlights three ways to increase academics’ accountability and boost their research productivity.

Chapter 2: Creating Micro Goals to Maximize Your 30-Minute Writing Sessions

National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
Wellbeing self-directed training

A wide range of self-directed learning courses are available to all UBC students.:

  • Navigating Your Health and Wellbeing at UBC and Beyond
  • Mental Health: The Basics
  • How to Help a Peer
  • Inclusive Event Planning
  • SAVE Lives: Harm Reduction & Naloxone Training
Wellness Centre
Grad School Confidential Podcast

Grad School Confidential is a podcast dedicated to breaking the silence over academic and personal challenges common to grad student life. Topics include Impostor Syndrome, Dealing with Criticism, Burnout, Balance, Thesis-writing, and more.

University of Alberta