Health and wellbeing

We want to make sure you're healthy and happy at DMU. There is a Sports Centre with a gym, courts and lots of classes to get involved in.

If you're feeling under pressure, need someone to talk to or are keen to fulfil your potential, then a member of the counselling team can give you confidential support.

The chaplaincy also provides non-denominational religious support. Plus, there is a new doctor’s surgery on campus providing a full NHS service to students and the local community.

Healthy body

The John Sandford Sports Centre provides DMU students with a range of leisure and recreational facilities and activities to help keep you fit and healthy.

Some of the facilities offered incudes a fitness suite including resistance weights and cardiovascular training machines, indoor courts for badminton, squash, netball and indoor cricket, 4-a-side football and saunas for when you want to relax.

Membership to this facility is heavily subsidised for DMU students, alternatively you can pay for each visit if that is better for you.

There is also a very active Students' Union Sports Section who organise a range of clubs, most of which participate in British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) Fixtures which are run on most Wednesday afternoons throughout the year.

DMU has also committed £8m for the development of a new leisure centre that will open on campus in July 2012. The new leisure centre will include a 25m six-lane swimming pool, a climbing wall, eight courts for racket sports and 5-a-side football, a fitness gym, multi-activity studios for fitness classes such as yoga, pilates and aerobics and a cafe.

Healthy mind

This service provides a range of support services to our students to help them deal with the emotional stresses that can occur during your studies. The type of help provided very much depends on the individual, be it face-to-face, by telephone or online resources that help you through those difficult periods.

We aim to help you...

Fulfil your potential
Solve your problems
Help you deal with what you can't change

We can...

See you on a one-to-one basis
Point you to online help
Include you in one of our groups
Get you the right self-help resources

How we can help?

The following services are just a few that students have access to whilst studying at DMU:

Life coaching – develop your full potential
Counselling – help with a wide range of issues
Drop-in email – check us out with this first contact email option
Ecounselling – counselling by email exchange
Nightline – listening service run by students
Confidentiality
Counselling podcast

Self help resources

There are also a number of online resources that, once you are a student, you can access 24/7

Calmyou: online self help
Natural relaxation course
Beating the Blues: easy to use program
Managing depression
Managing stress
Information about common problems