2025 - Let's go!
Excited about 2025? Excellent – nothing to see here. If not, join me in some gentle and kind self-nudging. At 9am this morning, I sat down […]
Random Gareth Pontifications
Your life is eminently storyable
With the end of 2024 in sight, I ponder something a little outside the usual content. In this post, I explore the potential value in seeing […]
All of us at HCDS and Oasis are wishing you a successful path through exams
Wishing all students calm, courage, confidence, good health, self-kindness, and a bit of luck for exam season from the teams at Health, Counselling, Disability Services, and […]
The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog Turns 7 today!
I’m taking a moment to wish this blog a Happy Birthday! The Student Health and Wellbeing Blog kicked off on the 19th July 2017. It was […]
Attention staff and students in creative disciplines
This goes out to those in the creative arts and media here at Flinders. I’m looking to see if I can get a successful mental health […]
I am the eMental Health Project Officer
In this post I provide a small introduction to me and my roles at Flinders. Hello readers! Gareth here. I am the eMental Health Project Officer. […]
ChatGPT and procrastination - no, it isn't about getting it to write your a...
I think Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT are getting to the point where we can have meaningful interactions with them in order to help us […]
Happy New Year Flinders Community - Welcome to 2024
I’m sitting, looking out my office window, with the year ahead of me. I am slowly seeing the campus come back to life and wanted to […]
My end of year message to students and staff (2023 edition)
I set out this year to be a lone wolf. Instead, I found being in the pack was much more rewarding. My end of year message […]
Best wishes from HCDS and Oasis as we enter the exam period!
With the .05% of brain space you have left, that isn’t full of the content from this year, please accept my best wishes during the exams […]
Let's finish 2023 strongly (and wisely)
Welcome back everyone! Let’s finish 2023 strong. This post contains a couple pieces of simple end-of-year advice, but its real purpose is just a verbal ‘high […]