Mental wellbeing
Wellbeing and mental health in the profession
Practitioner survey – preliminary findings
Naomi Stead provides an update on the Wellbeing of Architects research project, with an emphasis on some early findings of the recent practitioner survey.
Architectural Work Cultures
The Wellbeing of Architects: culture, identity + practice is a three-year collaborative research project, investigating wellbeing for those working in and studying architecture.
Wellbeing of Architects – findings so far
Watch our special presentation of the initial findings of the Wellbeing of Architects practitioners survey, with Naomi Stead, Tracey Shea and Byron Kinnaird.
Wellbeing of Architects – research updates
Parlour is delighted to be involved in the research-based advocacy project Wellbeing of Architects: culture, identity + practice. We present regular video updates on the project here.
Architecture for Joy, Joy for Architecture
Watch Parlour LAB 04: Architecture for Joy / Joy for Architecture – our session on mental wellbeing with Rebecca McLaughlan and Naomi Stead.
Looking after mental wellbeing
How are architectural practices supporting the health and wellbeing of their people? Susie Ashworth highlights the best tips and advice from the recent ACA Pulse Check no 2 survey.
Culture + Wellbeing
A recording of the BEC's Culture + Wellbeing event is now available online – a useful resource as we face the uncertainty and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resources for mental wellbeing
As we face the challenges ahead, maintaining your mental wellbeing is critical. This useful list includes tips, reminders and strategies to help maintain positive mental health during this difficult time.
Toolkit for Mental Health
The Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Forum has published a toolkit to assist individuals and practices to tackle mental health issues within architecture schools and practice.
Resilience in architecture
Architecture is a profession struggling to achieve balance and equity, and it can take a toll on all of us. Michael Gay offers advice on how to maintain balance and build resilience.
Flexibility at work
A focus on outcomes (not hours) and health (not overtime) brings many rewards, argues Jenny Edwards, director of Light House Architecture & Science.
Managing your mental health
Rob Henry takes a candid look at the challenges of managing his mental health and the benefits of flexibility in the workplace.
Achieving the right balance
Michael Gay on balancing career and family, based in his experience of combining a busy practice, professional commitments and toddler twins.
An anxious discipline
Byron Kinnaird on the need for our discipline to take responsibility for the mental health of students and the wider profession.
