Resilience

"We talk about resilience a lot.
But do we really know what it means?"

This question was posed in a staff-student project that focused on what resilience means to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of St Andrews. Some of the answers were gathered in the short video and posters below. The posters are described at the end of the page.

Students at the University of St Andrews talk about what resilience means for them.

bright poster: Being resilient involves being able to prioritise your own health and wellbeing.

bright poster: Being resilient involves being able to persevere and overcome hardships.

bright poster: Being resilient means means being able to seek help from others.

bright poster: Resilience means becoming flexible and adaptable.

bright poster: Resilience means becoming confident and accepting.

bright poster: Resilience means becoming compassionate.

The video and posters were:

  • made in collaboration with the Defining Resilience Summer Teams Enterprise Programme (STEP) projects
  • made with special thanks to the students involved, who were Aleisha, Ancy, Aswin, Jack and Priyansha
  • funded by the Enhancement Theme on Resilient Learning Communities.

Poster descriptions

The three posters about being resilient have the word "resilience" at the top, over a background of a colourful infiinty loop. The three posters about becoming resilient also have the word "resilience" at the top, this time over a background of a colourful ribbon swishing and swirling. The posters make the following points and then have quotes from students in the video.

Being resilient:

  • involves being able to prioritise your own health and wellbeing
  • involves being able to persevere and overcome hardships
  • means being able to seek help from others.

Resilience means becoming:

  • flexible and adaptable
  • confident and accepting
  • compassionate.