Keynote Speaking
Fresh thinking on student wellbeing, human performance and the environments that shape how we live.
Philippa Charrier brings together science, design and more than a decade of real-world experience creating and operating student accommodation to challenge audiences to think differently about what young people need to thrive.
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Beyond Beds: Designing Student Accommodation for Wellbeing
A keynote exploring how the environments we create shape student behaviour, wellbeing and performance - and why student accommodation has a bigger role to play than we think.
Keynote Topics
Student Thrive Mode
How to Hack Your Mind & Body for University Success
A practical, science-backed keynote giving students the tools to improve sleep, focus, energy, resilience and wellbeing.
Best for: students, schools and universities.
Beyond Beds
How the Built Environment Shapes Student Wellbeing
How the places students live can influence sleep, movement, connection, belonging and performance and how we can design them differently.
Best for: PBSA, accommodation providers, universities, developers and property conferences.
Rethinking Student Wellbeing
A provocative look at whether modern student life is inadvertently making it harder for young people to thrive — and what universities, parents and the student-living sector can do differently.
Best for: conferences, universities, education leaders and student-living professionals.
Have We Designed the Student Mental Health Crisis?
What Audiences Take Away
Fresh thinking
A different way of looking at student wellbeing, connecting the environments we create with the everyday behaviours that shape how young people feel and perform.
Practical ideas
Evidence-informed strategies people can actually use, from improving sleep, movement and connection to designing environments that make healthier behaviours easier.
A reason to think differently
Audiences leave questioning some of the assumptions we've made about student wellbeing and with a clearer idea of what we can do differently.
Bring a Fresh Perspective to Your Next Event?
From student wellbeing and human performance to the environments that shape how we live, Philippa brings evidence, real-world experience and practical ideas to audiences who want to think differently.
For keynote speaking, panels, workshops or bespoke events, get in touch to discuss your audience and what you’d like them to take away.