By Anninditha Menon TW: Eating disorders, body image, dieting We live in the age of social media, photoshop-obsessed influencers, fast fashion, and unrealistic beauty standards. These beauty trends, which change every minute is designed to make us feel insecure about our bodies. You’re never enough…
By Sheldon Lobo Content warning: contains emotionally distressing content and mentions of suicide. I can’t believe the university made me do this. The disbelief stirred my being to its very core. I wiped tears from my eyes as I looked at the fingerprint-stained mirror. A…
Middlesex University Dubai’s Wellness Office is proud to offer mdxMindset Talks: monthly wellness talks starting in October 2022. Please join us in conversation with students, staff, industry professionals, and the wider community about mental health and wellness topics affecting our society. Why mdxMindset Talks? Conversations…
mdxMindset asked students what mental health means to them, and what the most pressing issues in wellness are today. Their responses reflect issues that affect not only students and certain age groups, but also the concerns we should be giving attention to at different levels…
September is always an exciting time. The changing of seasons, the build up to the start of term and then the influx of new plus familiar faces at Middlesex Dubai. Working as the Librarian for the past 6 years, I have seen the gamut of…
I was – and continue to be- really excited about the return to class for the new term. I was first to the first in-person all-staff Teaching and Learning session since the pandemic started, arriving at least an hour early. So I’m really sorry that…
As institutions of higher learning aim to establish a foundation of well-being across their campuses, four key factors should be considered for program development to drive the intended benefits. Firstly, administrators should agree on a unified definition for the terms that are used as part…
I started the Law Department Mentoring Scheme in 2016 to provide essential support for IFP and first-year UG Law students. This program asks second- and third-year students to take on the role of mentors by helping first-year students transition from secondary education and adjust to…
As the 2020 academic year drew to a close, Dillon Nazareth, a final year law student, spontaneously started a blog with three of his colleagues in order to tackle feeling unproductive. He decided to start something through which he could continue making use of things…
Since education in the UAE moved to a distance learning model in March 2020, students and teachers in all sectors of education have been working hard to adjust the sudden, unexpected shift to online provision because, in the words of His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin…