{"id":85716,"date":"2026-02-28T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85716"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:03:06","slug":"lonely-terrifying-and-scary-70-of-students-in-uk-university-halls-feel-isolated-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/28\/lonely-terrifying-and-scary-70-of-students-in-uk-university-halls-feel-isolated-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lonely, terrifying and scary\u2019: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SuVdD.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=564&amp;y=489&amp;s=356&amp;d=356\" alt=\"Rachel Horrobin: \u2018People don\u2019t really tend to reach out any more.\u2019 Photograph: Jake Bufton\/Places for People\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than two-thirds of students in UK university halls feel lonely or isolated, blaming accommodation costs and over-reliance on phones for limiting their social life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/lonely-terrifying-and-scary-70-of-students-in-uk-university-halls-feel-isolated-poll-shows\/ar-AA1SuJf8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a2e7837e7b45199b81da18fac54b9c&amp;ei=99\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than two-thirds of students in UK university halls feel lonely or isolated, blaming accommodation costs and over-reliance on phones for limiting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Students-Dropout.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85717,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85716\/revisions\/85717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}