isolation Archives - Empoword Journalism https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/tag/isolation/ Led by women. Uniting and empowering journalists across the globe. Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:13:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Solving Social Isolation: Is It As Simple As ‘Going Outside’? https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/solving-social-isolation-is-it-as-simple-as-going-outside/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/solving-social-isolation-is-it-as-simple-as-going-outside/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:13:11 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=63100 Recent discourse on X (formerly Twitter) has promoted the belief that people struggling with loneliness or feeling isolated need to "just go outside” to feel better. Not only is this completely wrong, but it is also reductive, disregarding the complex social and structural factors that contribute to this isolation.

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]]> https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/solving-social-isolation-is-it-as-simple-as-going-outside/feed/ 0 The Toxicity of Student Alcohol Culture https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/the-toxicity-of-student-alcohol-culture/ https://empowordjournalism.co.uk/all-articles/the-toxicity-of-student-alcohol-culture/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:12:01 +0000 https://www.empowordjournalism.co.uk/?p=32357 Alcohol is seen as a substance everyone consumes at university, and a vital part of socialising. But, it can become a toxic way for students to feel excluded from the ‘typical’ student lifestyle.

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