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The History team pleased to announce that the University of Northampton Library has joined the Reading Well scheme!
The Reading Well books are guides to help people understand and manage their health condition, or that of their loved ones or colleagues.
Reading Well is a national scheme by the Reading Agency to help promote wellbeing and good physical and mental health through carefully selected books.
Each book is selected for the lists based on clinical evidence and are recommended by health care professionals and people with lived experience of the health conditions involved.
The Library has invested in the books not only to help promote student and staff wellbeing, but to support future healthcare practitioners and trainee teachers studying with us.
Boks are easily identifiable by their ‘Reading Well’ sticker on the front or book spine!
Reading lists are available on the following subjects:
- Long-Term Health Conditions: covering health and wellbeing, pain, arthritis, sleep problems, bowel conditions, breathing difficulties, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and support for carers and relatives
- Mental Health: topics include therapies and approaches, common conditions, common feelings and experiences and personal experiences
- Dementia and Dementia Care: topics include living well with dementia and support with relatives and carers
- Books for Younger Children: topics including feelings, worries, dealing with tough situations, guides to health conditions
- Books for Teens: topics include managing feelings, anxiety and depression, neurodiversity, body image, bereavement and grief, building confidence, surviving online, sexuality, gender identity and mental health
The books are fully searchable via NELSON and on the library’s online reading list service.
The lists are also available via the Reading Well website.
The books are stocked in most UK public libraries so please check locally if you would like to read them and you are outside of Northampton!
The introduction of the UON Reading Well collection has been a collaboration between Library and Learning Services staff Georgina Dimmock, Jenny Townend and Bonnie Hadman, and Dr Caroline Nielsen, Senior Lecturer in History and Heritage and historian of disability and health.
August 22, 2023
New Well-being Resources for Our University Community – HISTORY AT NORTHAMPTON
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Skip to content
The History team pleased to announce that the University of Northampton Library has joined the Reading Well scheme!
The Reading Well books are guides to help people understand and manage their health condition, or that of their loved ones or colleagues.
Reading Well is a national scheme by the Reading Agency to help promote wellbeing and good physical and mental health through carefully selected books.
Each book is selected for the lists based on clinical evidence and are recommended by health care professionals and people with lived experience of the health conditions involved.
The Library has invested in the books not only to help promote student and staff wellbeing, but to support future healthcare practitioners and trainee teachers studying with us.
Boks are easily identifiable by their ‘Reading Well’ sticker on the front or book spine!
Reading lists are available on the following subjects:
The books are fully searchable via NELSON and on the library’s online reading list service.
The lists are also available via the Reading Well website.
The books are stocked in most UK public libraries so please check locally if you would like to read them and you are outside of Northampton!
The introduction of the UON Reading Well collection has been a collaboration between Library and Learning Services staff Georgina Dimmock, Jenny Townend and Bonnie Hadman, and Dr Caroline Nielsen, Senior Lecturer in History and Heritage and historian of disability and health.