The content of this website was informed by extensive research into mental health research, practice and publications with particular focus on 18 to 30 year old age group. It contains creative activities or encounters, which promote emotional wellbeing and provides links to support and further information within the university and various agencies outside.
The figures each have a television for a head to symbolize or represent communication and act as a parallel symbol for the complexity of the images, stories and programming we all encompass. Two of the seven figures have interference showing on their screen, they are clearly not receiving or communicating a signal cohesively and as such are representing the possible percentage affected by mental ill health.
The visual narrative throughout presents images and experiences of mental illness from a range of perspectives: historical, contemporary, myth and truth, alongside personal accounts of students living with mental illnesses and of change and recovery. The focus is to challenge our thinking and behaviour away from seeing only an illness and not the person.
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