A list of the current events offered by the Chaplaincy Event listing Search Tags Mindfulness Event date Date from Date to Jun 19 2026 13.00 - 14.00 Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club Open to all staff in support, wellbeing, and experience roles, and interested others across UoE. The new Student Support & Wellbeing Journal Club meets to discuss recent, qualitative, accessible research that explores the complexities of work on the ground supporting students, whether dealing with mitigating circumstances, homesickness, or social struggles. It is led by Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain. We will meet a few times a year in the Chaplaincy, Bristo Square, beginning this summer with meetings on Fridays June 19th and August 21st, 1-2pm. If this is your lunch break you are warmly encouraged to bring your lunch, with a microwave, crockery and cutlery available both downstairs in the Common Room kitchen and upstairs in the staff Team Area, where we’ll meet. Tea and coffee will be provided. Feel free to arrive a little early to get yourself settled for a 1pm start. This summer’s Journal Clubs bring you research by an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a historian… Further information Jun 26 2026 15.30 - 16.45 PhD Book Club PhD Book Club meets 3:30-4:45pm on Fridays every six weeks, with Dr Kitty Wheater. Open to all PhD students, we’ll read books that cast light on the trials, tribulations, and mundanities of PhD life, offering perspective and inspiration for the time ahead. Past books have included Educated, by Tara Westover, Night Waking, by Sarah Moss, and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. To register for PhD Book Club, please email kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk. Further information This article was published on 2024-09-09
