Positive Health + Environment Week (PHEW)
Our fifth Positive Health and Environment Week (PHEW) will be taking place between Monday 1st July and Friday 12th July 2013. This annual event aims to encourage, support and develop the health and wellbeing of Cardiff University’s employees, through a wide range of enjoyable and informative activities.
These activities, which will include fitness classes, health checks, adventure and craft activities, workshops and talks, tours of some of Cardiff's fascinating sites and exhibitions, music and dance, complementary therapies and more, will at different locations and at different times of the day and evening to enable as many people as possible to participate. All will be free of charge to members of staff.
The full programme of activities, along with details of how to book your places, will be published in May so watch this space!
To give you an idea of what PHEW is all about, take a look at last year's programme. The links on the right of this page will take you to the PHEW 2012 brochure and a selection of photographs, to give you an idea of the variety of activity that took place over the two weeks.
Thank you for your feedback
Following PHEW 2012, we published on online feedback survey and invited all staff, whether or not they had taken part in PHEW 2012, to respond. Many thanks to all who did so. Your comments and suggestions have been extremely helpful in helping us plan this year's PHEW.
The PHEW 2012 Review highlights the results of the survey and can be viewed by clicking on the link to the right of this page.
Here are just a few of your comments:
"PHEW is a really good prompt to think about incorporating some activities and behaviours in daily life which enhance health and wellbeing"
"The activities I attended were all brilliant! Lots of fun, very informative, and I enjoyed them all!"
"PHEW offered so many excellent opportunities to try new things and meet new people across the University"
If you would like to join the PHEW mailing list to ensure you are kept informed by direct email of future PHEW events, please send a request to
Why is PHEW important?
Professor Terry Threadgold with the School of Psychology staff football team, winners of the PHEW 2012 7-A-Side Football Tournament
“Ensuring that the health and well being of staff is supported is extremely important if we are to ensure that we have a happy, healthy and productive workforce. Since the first Positive Health and Environment Week in 2009, it has become a popular annual event in the University calendar. It is clear from the feedback we receive after each event that PHEW is something which staff have found enjoyable and valuable, enhancing their experience of working for the University.”
Professor Terry Threadgold, Pro Vice Chancellor for Staff & Diversity
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about PHEW, please contact us at phew@cf.ac.uk or on x.79230