Well-being Tips and Tools

Our tips and tools for healthy mind and body, including resources for exercise, movement, quality sleep and lunchtime activities.

Walking Meetings

Walking Meetings

Strolling at lunchtime

Bloomsbury Gardens: Most of our PaLS buildings are located in Bloomsbury, a famous area of garden squares and gardens. Why not make your lunch break a journey of discovery? Pick a garden a day and start strolling! Walk in airy spaces breathing history that spans from 1660 to recent days.

Bloomsbury Garden

Office exercises

Sleep

Sleepio is an online self-help programme based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). You will learn techniques to help tackle the racing mind and behavioural strategies to help reset sleeping patterns naturally.
Sleep hygiene

Museums and Galleries in Bloomsbury

We are based in the London area of Bloomsbury and surrounded by the greatest concentration of libraries, museums, archives and professional bodies in Europe. Why not visit them during your lunch break or SPICE time? Here are some of our suggestions:

The British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/
The Grant Museum of Zoology https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/grant-museum-zoology
Petrie Museum https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/petrie-museum
UCL Geology Collection https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/geology-collection
The Flaxman Gallery https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/libraries-and-study-spaces/building-develo...
The Foundling Museum https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/
Charles Dickens Museum https://dickensmuseum.com/
The Cartoon Museum http://www.cartoonmuseum.org/
Museum of Comedy https://www.museumofcomedy.com/
Brunei Gallery https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/
Abbott & Holder Gallery https://www.bada.org/dealer/abbott-and-holder-ltd
The Building Centre https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/
The Horse Hospital Art Centre https://www.thehorsehospital.com/
The Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/
October Gallery http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/
The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_David_Foundation_of_Chinese_Art
Joseph Fine Art https://www.josephfineart.co.uk/

We deserve to enjoy being at work

"We deserve to enjoy being at work. As a university and Division we should do everything possible to make sure that all staff have a fulfilling and gratifying work-life. As far as the Division is able, every effort will be made to achieve this for everyone. We have to make sure that these are not empty words but that there is a real commitment by all to attend to issues of wellbeing alongside attending to issues of productivity. Ultimately, the wellbeing of the organisation depends on attention having been paid to both. We hope that, as has been the case on other occasions, PALS will be a pioneer in this regard at UCL."

Professor Peter Fonagy, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL

Well-being Champions and Supporters

If you need well-being advice or if you have any suggestions for well-being initiatives or activities, please contact our local Well-being Team who will provide advice, signpost you or assist in setting up projects:

Alicia Burton (PALS)
Hannah Spikesley (PALS)
Medani Imtiaz (PALS)
Beth Allen (ICN)
Safia Chaudhary (ICN)

Why we laugh

Watch Professor Sophie Scott from UCL PALS on TED in this fast-paced, action-packed and hilarious dash through the science of cracking up.