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All Things Mental Health
We're a mental health podcast, focusing on young minds and students. We bridge the gap between research and lived experience, creating space for new dialogue to emerge. With a recent feature in the Guardian, this podcast is in the top 15% of podcasts shared globally. Partners inc. University of Oxford, King's College London, Student Minds, SMaRteN and U-Belong.
Meet the team! Aneeska Sohal, our Founder and Project Manager. Aneeska is a Trustee for Student Minds and the Head of Strategy for Student Mental Health and Wellbeing at King's College London. Anna Bailie is our Researcher in Residence, with a specialism in mental health and politics. She works with WHO (World Health Organisation) as a Youth Participation Consultant for and Supporter of the Pan-European Mental Health Coalition Working Package on Child, Adolescent and Young People's Mental Health. Our Editor is Saul Devlin, with expertise in radio, music and sound recording.
Head over to our Instagram for more @allthings.mentalhealth, our Twitter @atmhpodcast or contact us at allthingsmentalhealth20@gmail.com
Episodes
43 episodes
Coming out stories
For our final episode, hear from Alex and Ashley about their coming out stories. Exploring belonging and community, they discuss the importance of finding safe spaces, understanding your own journey, and effective peer support. They discuss how...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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35:40
Living a double life
In our second episode, Reo, Harry and X explore the non-binary experience of living a double life across all aspects of their lives, including at university, with friends, and at home. Tune in to hear them discuss the unique challenges of non-a...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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29:18
Advocacy and activism
This episode starts by introducing this series ‘Life as a trans+ student’. This series explores navigating university life as a transgender and/or non-binary student. Tune in to hear Aneeska, Anna, Izzy and Ugla explore the motivations for the ...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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34:40
The Social History of Student Loneliness
U-Belong student researcher Amy will explore student loneliness with Dr Sarah Crook, a historian at Swansea University. They'll explore how student loneliness has evolved over the decades, influenced by societal changes, technology, and educati...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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28:15
Community and Housing
Tune in to hear from U-Belong student researcher Victor in conversation with Dr Sarah Crook, a Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University. Sarah explores student histories in her research. In this conversation, Victor and Sarah explore th...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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34:07
Neurodiversity and Belonging
U-Belong student researcher Finty engages with her experiences as a neurodiverse student at university with Faith Ross, a Specialist Mental Health/Autism Mentor and a PhD Student at King's College London. Faith’s research explores a streng...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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21:29
The Cost of Living Crisis
Tune in to hear from U-Belong student researcher Euan in conversation with Dominic Smithies, Head of Influencing and Communications at Student Minds (the UK's student mental health charity). Euan and Dom discuss the impact of the cost of livi...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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29:44
Career Pathways in Mental Health
Tune in to hear from U-Belong student researcher Max talking to Christian Jameson-Warren and Anna Glaze-Krayer, Career Advisers from the University of Nottingham. They explore career pathways in mental health, addressing the diverse career path...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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32:31
Curriculum Transformation and Wellbeing
U-Belong student researcher Jasmine is in conversation with Dr Rebecca Upsher, a Lecturer in Psychology (Education) in the Department of Psychology at King's College London. The two discuss curriculum-based interventions and how pedagogy can im...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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25:17
Mental Health Realities at University
Tune in to hear from U-Belong student researcher Jess in conversation with clinical psychologist Dr Anton Barnwell. Jess and Anton explore mental health realities at university, including self-help, coping mechanisms, and the importance of seek...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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30:51
Introduction, Building Belonging at University
Welcome to the Building Belonging at University podcast series, a collaboration between All Things Mental Health, the U-Belong Research Project, and King's College London. This series explores student mental health in higher education and forms...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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International experience: change and identity away from home
Our final episode comes from International students, Bertha and Oluwa who speak about their experiences of moving to the U.K. to study abroad. Each student faces different challenges but unite in the rewards they have experienced. They explore ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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29:29
From leadership to imposter syndrome
Michelle and Evangel explore the unique challenges they have faced as Black students navigating imposter syndrome and leadership. Michelle speaks about her expectations to be the ‘spokesperson’ for the Black student community, and the pressures...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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24:59
Intersectionality: LGBTQ+ and Religion
In this episode, Taj and Shannel explore what intersectionality means to them as Black students in relation to their own lived experience. Taj, who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, and Shannel who is a part of a faith community. Tune in to he...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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35:24
Family: Expectations, female roles, and masculinity
Eunice and Daniel explore what family means to them in relation to their own lived experience as a Black student. They explore family expectations, female roles and masculinity, and how family has interfaced with their experience as students. T...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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35:24
Introduction, Life as a Black student
Life as a Black student explores the lived experience of eight Black students studying and living in the U.K. Our aim is to move away from the stereotypical understanding of a 'homogeneous' experience, and instead we're being led by the lived e...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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23:40
From Neuroscience to Neuroinclusion, via Pedagogical Partnerships
This week, neurodivergent Coventry University student Elizabeth Mullenger discusses inclusion, adaptation and misconception with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a PhD candidate from the ADHD research lab at King’s College London. Elizabeth’s interest in n...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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26:11
Lived Experience in Mental Health Support
In this week’s episode, the host is Tanatswa Chikaura. Tanatswa is a mental health advocate and master’s in Neuroscience student from the University of Cambridge. In Zimbabwe, her home country, Tanatswa leads a mental health organisation that s...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:06
Finding a Sense of Belonging: Supporting Mature Students
In this episode, we dive into the mental health challenges faced by post-graduate and mature students in a university setting. Titus Joseph, a masters student studying Public Health at the University of Nottingham, speaks with Dr. Patricia (Tri...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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30:31
Belonging and Black Students’ Mental Health
(CW: death, mentions of self-harm and suicide) To kick off series 2 with SMaRteN this week’s episode, Elia Chitwa, a recent graduate from the University of Cambridge and current student union sabbatical officer, is joined b...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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30:59
Reunion Episode: Keeping Students in Mind
We are thrilled to welcome back our students & SMaRteN from our collab series ‘Keeping Students in Mind: Understanding Student Mental Health Research’ for a special reunion episode! This one-off focuses on post-uni life to celebrate the com...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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41:59
Fatema Dawoodbhoy in conversation with Dr Georgia Walker Churchman
In this episode, Fatema Mustansir Dawoodbhoy, a final year medical student at Imperial College London, chats to Dr Georgia Walker Churchman, a lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia with a background in English Literature, abou...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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23:33
Niamh Burns in conversation with Dr Natasa Lackovic
On this week’s episode Niamh Burns, a final year psychology student at the University of Leeds, speaks with Natasa Lackovic about her SMaRteN-funded research project, ‘Things and the mind: students’ graphic memoir of material things that med...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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26:48
Eric Berger in conversation with Dr Rachel Spacey
In this week’s episode, Eric Berger, a final year undergraduate student at The University of Edinburgh, is joined by Rachel Spacey, a Research Fellow based in the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute at the University of Lincoln. They di...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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25:39
Jenna Luxon in conversation with Dr Emma Broglia
In this week’s episode, Jenna Luxon, a Social and Political Sciences graduate from the University of York, is joined by postdoctoral researcher Dr Emma Broglia from the University of Sheffield. The two discuss Emma’s research into mental health...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:17
