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Student mental health, Women's magazines, Jessa Crispin

Student mental health - what support is there? Plus women's magazines, and Jessa Crispin on her journey around Europe in the footsteps of her favourite literary exiles.

What's being done to support students who find the move to university difficult to cope with? We discuss with Dr Ruth Caleb, Head of the Counselling Service at Brunel University London and the Chair of the Mental Wellbeing Working Group of Universities UK and Dr Nicola Byrom, the Founding Director of Student Minds, the student mental health charity.

How do women's magazines balance talking about feminism with the needs of advertisers? Editor of Elle, Lorraine Candy and Editor of Stylist, Lisa Smosarski discuss their feminist themed editions.

In today's Woman in One from Liverpool: we talk to a young woman working in a tattoo parlour.

The Dead Ladies Project: following erratically in the footsteps of some of her favourite literary exiles Jessa Crispin travels around Europe to see if their lives have anything to teach her about recovering from depression and making a satisfying way of life for herself as a woman, a writer and a resolute rule-breaker.

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58 minutes

Chapters

  • Feminist Magazines

    Can a glossy magazine balance talking about feminism with the needs of advertisers?

    Duration: 13:07

  • Minnie Lansbury

    The last of our series on women’s history in London with historian Katherine Connelly

    Duration: 07:29

  • Student Mental Health

    More on the psychological impact of starting university and how to get help with this

    Duration: 12:37

  • Women In One

    Audio snapshots from women around the UK

    Duration: 03:39

  • Jessa Crispin

    Jessa found herself by writing & researching about some of her favourite literary exiles

    Duration: 04:57

Student Mental Wellbeing





Women In One


Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest Ruth Caleb
Interviewed Guest Nicola Byrom
Interviewed Guest Lorraine Candy
Interviewed Guest Lisa Smosarski
Interviewed Guest Jessa Crispin
Producer Jane Thurlow

Broadcast

  • Tue 6 Oct 2015 10:00

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