Got a wellbeing story, idea, or event to share? Submit your article to Better U and help inspire the Flinders community!
BetterU (formerly the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog) is Flinders University’s central news and wellbeing hub for students.
While the site is managed by the BetterU team, our vision is to become a true community magazine – a platform where students, staff, and researchers share their own insights on how to build a good life.
Thus, we are opening the doors and inviting you to contribute.
Who can submit?
We welcome submissions from all corners of the university:
- Students: From any discipline or year level.
- Staff: Both academic and professional staff who support the student journey.
- Groups: Clubs, associations, and research teams.
What we are looking for
We welcome content across all four of our wellbeing pillars: Body, Mind, Spirit, and Together. You don’t need to be a professional writer; you just need something valuable to share.
Topics and ideas might include:
- The “How-To”: Share practical tips on study skills, budgeting, sleep, or finding balance.
- Lived Experience: Share a personal story about overcoming a challenge, navigating university life, or managing mental health (stories of resilience are highly valued).
- Spotlights & Showcases: Are you part of a club, a research team, or a service that students should know about? Tell us what you do.
- Reviews: Read a great book, listened to a helpful podcast, or used an app that improved your wellbeing? Write a short review.
- Event Promotion: If you are running an event that supports student connection or health, let us help you get the word out.
We are flexible with format. You can submit:
- A fully formed draft: A written article (max 2000 words) ready for review.
- Rough notes or dot points: Just send us the key facts or ideas, and our editorial team (i.e. Gareth) can help shape them into a post for you.
- Multimedia: We’d love to extend into more diverse formats so if you have relevant self-created photos, videos (YouTube links), audio clips, or even social media excerpts, we’d be interested.
- Research publications: If you have published research relevant to wellbeing, we can help you summarize or “translate” it for a student audience.
- Relevant assignments: Did you write a great paper on a wellbeing topic? We may be able to adapt university assignments into articles (provided you have permission from your Topic Coordinator).
And those are just some initial ideas. We are keen to hear what kind of content you might like to create.
If you just know you’d like to create something, but don’t know what yet, get in contact with us (see below) and we can send you a content creator guide which will help you build out your idea.
The Submission Process
We want to keep this simple. You don’t need to have a finished product to reach out.
⭐ Step 1: Email us at betteru@flinders.edu.au with your idea, draft, or concept.
⭐ Step 2: One of the team will reach out to chat about the best way to present it.
⭐ Step 3: We will help you go from idea to published content.
Where will it be seen?
If content creation goes to plan, your content will be published on the BetterU website and permanently archived on the Student Health & Wellbeing blog. It will also be circulated via our weekly newsletter, which reaches over 2,600 students and staff.
A note on Student Placements
In 2025 we started offering student placements with BetterU.
The first cohort of students, from public health and social work, that went through those placements created some great stuff.
The invitation extended in this post is for voluntary contributions, not placements.
But if you are a topic coordinator interested in discussing the possibility of us hosting some of your students on placement, get in contact with me, gareth.furber@flinders.edu.au, to discuss options.
