Results for tag: health
Market Time, Forest Time: Language, Deforestation, and Shifting Multispecies Assemblages in the Peruvian Amazon
Defund and Defend: Health and Healthcare Costs of Rearmament
“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” said Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, ahead of the June 2025 The Hague summit, where European NATO members pledged to raise their military spending to 5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Introducing the Campus Fryslân Student Mentor Programme
Starting university is exciting, but it can also be confusing, overwhelming, and full of questions. How do you organise your time when nobody is checking whether you have done your readings? What do lecturers actually expect from an academic assignment?...
Local Veggies, Global Recipes
Between Grou and Jirnsum, a small farm is rethinking what food systems can look like. The vegetables grown there do not travel far. In fact, some of them end up just a short drive away, at Campus Fryslân, where students and staff pick them up each week as...
Celebrating International Women’s Day: Standing for All Women, Everywhere
Every year on March 8, the world marks International Women's Day: a day to celebrate the achievements of women and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggle for equality. It is a day of pride, gratitude, and solidarity. But it is also a day of honesty....
Donating stem cells to save a life, are you in?!
At Campus Fryslân we learn about a whole range of different inequalities, but what if a certain inequality threatens your life or those of your loved ones? You could safe the life of a patient with leukaemia or other severe blood disorder. Have you already...
Busy students: This is how you improve the quality of your sleep
Balancing your study load, committee work, social life and your health can be difficult as a student. Often, your sleep and quality of sleep suffers as a result. A continuous lack of sleep can have serious health implications. In this blog you will read...
“Avocados are healthy”, “Sleep is important” - It’s easy to be healthy, right?
Being healthy is good, it’s sustainable, and easy. It’s easy to buy vegetables, do sports, keep your mind at ease, and just be healthy. Or is it? The 7th of April is World Health day. A good reminder that we need to talk about being healthy, how to debunk...
Mental well-being during your studies
What do you do when a fellow student/ friend is having a hard time with their mental health? How do you ask for help when you don't know where to go? What can UG mean to my mental health? In honour of Mental health day that took place on Sunday 10 October,...
