by Bill Sheate

Learning to live with Covid-19, mindfully….

As Universities re-open for the new academic year this autumn students and staff are facing a whole new world, a very different experience to one we may be used to or have come to expect.

• Big lectures with hundreds of students are no more.

• Online video recorded lecture material and online live meetings are the new order of the day.

• And maybe some small group teaching or lab working, where possible, in 'bubbles' of various sizes.

• But social events on campus are hugely curtailed.

Covid-19 has created it's own existential anxieties for many while for some the risks seem overblown. But as I've discussed in my previous Coronavirus blogs (1-4), this spectrum of perception is normal, depending on your own personal circumstances……. [Read more]