UNISEX Campaigns

UNISEX’s health promotion work focuses on devising and delivering engaging, interactive campaigns that will raise awareness and motivate the student body to make positive changes to their lifestyles.

Each year we plan a campaign calendar that fits around national and local agendas and the student life cycle. Often our campaigns will tie-in with events which are already tacking place, such as National Tackling Drugs Week or the University’s Wellbeing Week. At other times the campaign may run across several weeks or a whole term with regular outreach sessions. The approach will vary depending on how the aim of the campaign can be best met.

The campaigns fall under three categories:

Sexual Health:

Including: safer sexual practices, STI awareness and chlamydia screening.

HIV:

Including: HIV/AIDS awareness, testing, challenging stigma and homophobia.

Drugs/Alcohol:

Including: safer use, personal safety, physical/mental health issues.

Previous UNISEX Campaigns

Look After your’Elf -

Personal safety campaign featuring mince pies, mulled fruit punch and lots of festive elves!

Chlamydia Club Challenge –

Screening sports teams and societies for a chance to win £200.

Wee for a Wii –

offering chlamydia screening in lecture halls to enter a prize draw for a Nintendo Wii.

Girls on Top –

a celebration of all things female for International Women’s Day.

World AIDS Day –

commemorating those with HIV/AIDS around the world by raising awareness and a tree lighting and Christmas carol ceremony.

Pee for Pizza –

offering chlamydia screening in Halls of Residence to win Pizza for a whole flat.

Glow Clubbing –

safer clubbing campaign with glowsticks galore and drug/alcohol awareness info.

Christmas Chlamydia Cracker –

Santa and the National Elf Service offering chlamydia screening around the Universities.

How YOU can help:

UNISEX recruits student volunteers as campaign workers to assist us in running the programme. We believe that UNISEX will be more effective in ‘making safer sexy’ if our work is delivered by members of the community in which we aim to initiate change. Involving students as volunteers is central to our ethos and essential to effective service delivery.

If you are enthusiastic, hard-working and interested in the work UNISEX does, join us as a campaign worker! Click here for more information.