Healthy UL

What we do

Since its inception in 2019, Healthy UL has worked to create a system and an environment that encourages positive health behaviours among staff, students, and the wider community, leading to improved overall wellbeing, academic success, and a more vibrant campus life. 

It has also worked hard to influence the built and natural environments, and to use policy approaches to create an enabling context within which ‘the healthier choice is an easier choice’.

Healthy UL strives to move beyond changing only behaviours of people to also influencing built and natural environments and to using policy approaches to create an enabling context within which ‘healthy choices are easier and more acceptable’.

Healthy UL 2.0 Framework

Renewing the University's commitment to health and wellbeing and building on previous successes, the Healthy UL team have recently launched the Healthy UL 2.0 Framework, renewing and building on the University of Limerick's commitment to health and wellbeing for the wider campus community.

The Limerick Framework for Action

The Limerick Framework for Action was launched on the 1 December 2025. 

It is an international guide to advance student and staff health and wellbeing on campus. 

The framework development was led by the Healthy UL team, as an output of the International Health Promoting Campuses Conference, which took place at the University of Limerick, June 2025

Physical activity

Discover our gorgeous campus with many pathways for enjoyable walks or runs. From the spacious UL Sport Arena featuring a gym and indoor courts to outdoor tracks and fields, students have plenty of opportunities to take part in sports and activities that promote a healthy and active lifestyle.

Learn more about Physical Activity

Rent a bike scheme

Mental health and well-being

University is a time of great personal change and transformation as you navigate living independently and balance time between academic, social, work, and family responsibilities.

Mental health literacy is a valuable resource that you can draw upon to help you make this transition easier.

Explore UL's mental health and well-being resources

Substance use and gambling support

Excessive drinking and drugging is really dangerous. There are always risks when taking drugs. 

If you're worried you might have been spiked, tell someone you trust or a member of staff at the venue you're at immediately. Call 112.

Learn more about getting help for substance use and gambling

Healthy environment

• Our roof garden is available to all students
• A Farmer's Market takes place every Tuesday in Student's Courtyard, 12-5pm
• Beekeeping courses run throughout the year
• Annual Riverbank Cleanup
• @ULEnviroCom

Find out more about UL's healthy Environment 

Healthy eating

A healthy diet is crucial in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It plays a key role in maintaining a healthy weight as well as encouraging positive lifestyles generally.

For anyone looking for more information about how to adopt healthier eating, Healthy UL offers plenty of resources.

Explore Healthy Eating at UL

Sexual health and well-being

During the transition from second-level school to university, students develop many new relationships, some platonic and some sexual in nature.

Students also experiment more with their sexuality in the newly found independent living space in which they find themselves. This can present many challenges in terms of making good choices in relation to their sexual health and well-being.

Learn more about UL's sexual health and well-being resources