Workplace Health Symposium - Past, Present and Future

Founded on the principle that educational barriers are meant to be broken down, UCL has spent 200 years challenging convention and driving progress. Innovative and dynamic, the university continues to expand the boundaries of knowledge and impact.

As part of the UCL200 celebrations, and taking place during Mental Health Awareness Week, the symposium will bring together leading academic voices and professional services colleagues from across UCL.

The symposium will consider how health and wellbeing has been understood over the past two centuries, while also looking ahead to the changing demands on health and wellbeing.

(Social Research Institute): Living Longer but Not Healthier: The Generational Health Drift

• Health is no longer improving across generations

Despite longer life expectancy, newer generations are not consistently healthier than previous ones at the same age. The Generational Health Drift challenges the long-held assumption that health improves steadily over time.

• Implications for work and the labour market

If younger generations experience poorer health earlier in life, this could reduce labour market participation, limit productivity, and increase pressure on employers and policymakers to support a healthier, longer working population.

(Social Research Institute) discussing:

• The implications of digitalisation and AI (artificial intelligence) for work, family life and inequalities

(Clinical Education and Health Psychology) discussing:

• The impact of the menopause transition on cognition and mental health

(Clinical Education and Health Psychology) discussing:

• The interplay between health psychology and public health.

Chaired by (Epidemiology & Applied Clinical Research)

• Theme: Whether mental health and wellbeing are worsening, or whether improvements in recognition and diagnosis explain rising rates

Bringing together history, research and forward-thinking discussion, the event will spark conversation about how far we have come - as a university and as a society that recognises health and wellbeing as fundamental to thriving communities.

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