Embedding health and sustainability
Latest news from the UK Healthy Universities Network
ADVANCE-HE
Creating Socially Distanced Campuses and Education Project
Designed for those with responsibility for planning, leading and managing educational programmes, the aims of the project are:
The Project has published five leadership intelligence reports – on Induction, Space & Place, Design & Delivery, Quality and Inclusion (available for Advance-HE members to download) and a final Capstone Report (available freely to download) – focused on Leadership, Communication, Partnership and Wellbeing. This report includes a focus on Healthy Universities and the need for a whole university/whole system approach.
STUDENT MINDS
Student Minds: Coronavirus resources
Guidance and resources to support the higher education community.
Planning for a Sustainable Future: the importance of university mental health in uncertain times
Planning for a Sustainable Future outlines how universities can make mental health a university-wide priority in the context of Covid-19. Informed by the University Mental Health Charter and listening to staff and students, it provides principles universities can apply in making strategic decisions about next year and beyond.
New Online Platform to Support Student Mental Health During Covid-19 Pandemic
The Office for Students has awarded up to £3 million to Student Minds to create a new online platform to support student mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Student Space, will deliver targeted and high-quality support designed to respond to additional pressures caused by the pandemic. It will launch its first services in July with a full programme of resources and interventions available to students by September.
UNIVERSITIES UK
Universities UK Covid-19 Guidance and Information
Universities UK – Principles and considerations: emerging from lockdown
This briefing outlines nine principles and areas for universities to consider as they begin to emerge from lockdown. The principles offer a framework for individual universities to adapt to their own institutional settings and contexts.
ENGLAND – OFFICE FOR STUDENTS
Supporting Disabled Students during the Pandemic
This OfS briefing looks at how universities and colleges are addressing the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on disabled students and applicants.
Supporting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Students – event video
A full recording of an event on support for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students during the pandemic is now available.
Coronavirus Briefing Note: Students without family support
This OfS briefing focuses on the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on students who are not supported by their parents or wider family.
New case studies from OfS demonstrating some of the ways universities, colleges and others are supporting the needs of their students during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Supporting student mental health during Covid-19 pandemic
Practical and innovative ways that universities and colleges have been changing their work to support student mental health have been highlighted in a new OfS briefing note, published today.
Supporting international students during pandemic
OfS briefing note focuses on how universities and colleges are supporting current and prospective international students during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Information, advice and guidance for prospective students
OfS briefing note on how universities, colleges and others are responding to the challenges of delivering high-quality information, advice and guidance to prospective students through different channels, especially in the context of imminent decision deadlines.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Northern Ireland: Latest Updates for Universities
SCOTLAND
Scottish Funding Council Covid-19 Guidance and Links
WALES
HEFCW Covid-19 Guidance and Links Relevant to Wales
VARIOUS/OTHER
Collated guidance on Covid-19 from AMOSSHE
The UK government and many higher education sector organisations have published guidance in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic that impacts the work of Student Services.
NUS Coronavirus and Students: Key Questions
Universities & Colleges Employers’ Association: COVID-19 resources
Links to sources of information and advice on coronavirus (COVID-19).
COVID-19: Where to Find Quality Health Promotion Information
Collated evidence-based messaging on COVID-19 by trusted sources (e.g. WHO, national public health agencies, research institutions) from the International Union for Health Promotion & Education.
Campus Support During Covid-19
Collated links to resources to support students, compiled by Teriary Wellbeing Aotearoa New Zealand (TWANZ).
Universities UK is hosting a webinar exploring how universities can harness the momentum behind the Black Lives Matter movement as…
UUK has published a refreshed version of its strategic framework, Stepchange: Mentally Healthy Universities, calling on universities to prioritise the…
Paper in Health Promotion International by Heather Came and Keith Tudor.
Structured under four domains – Learn, Support, Work and Live – the Charter calls for a whole university approach.
NUS/Studnets Organising for Sustainability conference.
The new e-learning resource aims to help all social media users build a meaningful, more balanced relationship with platforms –…
Aimed at leaders, future leaders and change agents to support the sustainable development of their own institution in a way…
Aimed at sustainability professionals and the wider public sector and corporates with mandates to lead on organisation-wide behaviour change.
Focusing on the conceptualization of a whole university approach, this Health Promotion International journal paper by Mark Dooris, Sue Powell…
This report of a Round Table hosted by Galliford Try and Scott Brownrigg considers the impact of accommodation environments on…
This booklet, published by the British Property Federation, is the product of the hard work and dedication of individuals and…
This must attend conference will clearly articulate current evidence and provide insights on research around these many conditions and how…
Open Forum will be holding a follow-up event to our Improving Student Mental Health Outcomes conference, with a focus on…
Scroll Free September provides an opportunity for users to take a break from social media and online gambling platforms, to…
A Health Education journal paper by Mark Dooris, Alan Farrier, Sue Powell and Maxine Holt, reporting on an evaluation of…
This reports on a research study for the Higher Education Policy Institute authored by Liz Morrish.
This reports on a research study for Education Support Partnership authored by Tim O’Brien and Dennis Guiney.
A paper on the ARK Study by Siw Tone Innstrand and Marit Christensen
A systematic review paper in CPQ Women and Child Health by Reis et al (2018)
Perspectives in Public Health paper by Haas et al (2018)
Health Education Journal paper by Jack et al (2018)
Further information: Dr Anna Thorpe anna.thorpe@cdhb.health.nz. To coincide with the 23rd World Conference on Health Promotion, which takes place from…
New report from Student Minds.
A report of research undertaken by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
This is aimed at supporting university leaders to help embed good mental health for students and staff across all university…
This proposes a number of ways to tackle the growing problem of mental health issues among students and also staff.
New paper on determinants of students and alcohol: Muli & Lagan, Perspectives in Public Health
RSPH/Young Health Movement report on effects of social media on young people’s health
An overview of research on key issues in student health by Ann Hagell, Research Lead, Association for Young People’s Health…
A novel perspective for qualitatively evaluating the nutritional quality of food sold at foodservice facilities at a Brazilian university
A survey conducted by the National Union of Students (NUS) in September 2014 revealed that from a total of 2,156…
Deadline for abstracts 30 November 2016. The purpose of this conference is to bring together educators of all types (faculty,…
Article in College Student Journal 50(Number 4):590-602 – November 2016
Friends of the Earth have published their latest report on how universities can respond to climate change. This briefing summarises…
Healthy Universities: a guiding framework for universities to examine the distinctive health needs of its own student population; Maxine Holt…
Recently published journal paper in Critical Public Health by Sian Supski, Jo Lindsay and Claire Tanner
Universities represent a valuable opportunity to promote health and well-being. Based on the setting approach, the Health Promoting Universities concept…
The health-promoting settings approach is well established in health promotion, with organisational settings being understood as complex systems able to…
The Mental Health: Moving Forward conference aims to bring together delegates from across the country to learn about the newly…
Going to university is never easy. It’s one of the greatest leaps of faith anyone ever makes, and it comes…
Sheffield Hallam Staff Wellness service: Four-year follow-up of the impact on health indicators
Research article on mental health among currently enrolled medical students in Germany.