Student Financial Wellbeing

Research by Student Minds suggests that students' problems with finances can lead to mental health difficulties and problems with gambling. As well as negatively affecting their experience at university, such issues can ultimately hit student progression and retention.

While ostensibly a health issue, the Covid-19 pandemic has also become a financial issue for students — be it from losing a part-time job that supports their studies, to having to pay rent during the lockdown. Enabling financial resilience is a student support issue that universities are having to tackle, with the repercussions of the pandemic adding to the more usual finance problems they would see.

This ProtectED Reflections event will discuss the current struggles that students are facing with their finances, and some of the solutions. We will explore what help is out there to address related issues, such as gambling, and how to recognise potentially problematic behaviours.