Healthy lifestyle choices

The University offers you a wide range of facilities and activities to help you enjoy a healthier work lifestyle.

Healthy eating on campus

The University is a fairtrade University with a large number of retail outlets serving ‘healthy option’ food.

Exeter Campuses

Campus shops and cafes

Catering services

Tremough Campus

Food and drink

Green travel

It is well established that regular exercise is a key factor in maintaining a good standard of health and fitness.  Walking or cycling to work even for part of your journey involve valuable opportunities for personal physical exercise.  Both are completely carbon neutral.

The University’s sustainability webpage

Sustainable transport and the University’s travel plan

The University’s transport benefits which includes information on the University’s cyclescheme. The cyclescheme encourages you to participate in a ‘salary sacrifice’ arrangement that enables you to purchase bikes and safety equipment and to use cycling as means of sustainable travel.  This is also backed up by free cycle training to ensure you to feel safe and secure while using your bike.

Sports and Recreation

In recent years the University has invested in and developed first class sport, health and fitness facilities on its Exeter and Cornwall campuses, now regarded as some of the best facilities in the South West of England.

These are fully available and accessible to all staff.  The Sports Office takes a holistic approach to staff health and wellness and provides a wide range of activities that suit everyone’s needs.

On the Streatham campus, you have access to numerous activities

  • Football, rugby, hockey and lacrosse 
  • Badminton, squash and tennis
  • Cricket
  • Table tennis
  • Basketball and netball
  • Volleyball
  • Climbing
  • Fitness (gym and virtual gym)
  • Mini ’Olympics’ and a fitness 'Trim Trail'

On the St Luke’s campus you have access to two indoor sport halls, a gym and a swimming pool.  On the Cornwall campus you have access to a sports centre with gymnasium, exercise studio, changing rooms, showers and a physiotherapy room. There is also a multi-use games area outside.

Health and wellness activities (Streatham campus)

The University provides a range of health and wellness activities throughout the year.  Some of these include wellbeing weeks, free health testing, exercise referral schemes, campus health walks, weekly running groups, health information presentations, healthy eating workshops, complementary health treatments, smoking cessation workshops, meditation sessions and many more.

Campus walks

There are organised health walks that take place. These are designed to get you away from your workplace and to take in fresh air. They are very informal and not overly strenuous.

Sculpture Walk

The Sculpture Walk is a trail that all staff can access and which guides participants around campus taking in the various art works on display.

University smoking policy

The University wishes to provide a safe, clean, comfortable and healthy environment for all of its staff, students and visitors.

The University provides free support to staff and students who wish to stop smoking. 

Details of the University’s arrangements to comply with its legal obligations on smoking are described in the University smoking policy

Substance abuse policy and guidelines

The University recognises its duty of care towards its employees and views substance abuse as a medical problem rather than a disciplinary matter.

Details of the University’s arrangements to both comply with its legal obligations and assist staff are described in its substance abuse policy and guidelines