Wellbeing focus:
A VIEW FROM LONDON BY DR ADRIAN CLARK
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK, many university campuses closed and students faced the difficult choice of staying where they were, or returning ‘home’ – often a race against the clock while national borders closed as quickly as the campuses.
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y the time the UK was put under lockdown on 23 March, around two-thirds of the 3,500 students in the University’s intercollegiate halls of residence had left London. For my work as Student Health & Wellbeing Manager, the months that followed focused almost exclusively on the University’s response to the pandemic and, in particular, keeping these London-based students safe and well. This marked an extraordinary end to my first year at the University, in a role I began in July 2019 after 17 years training and practising as an emergency physician in the National Health Service.
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