Developing Bespoke Mental Health Training Relevant to Staff Roles
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The aim of the project was to create film guidance for the HE sector on the implementation of evidence-informed, relevant and effective mental health training for staff at the University of Derby. The film details the creation of an effective programme of interventions for changing culture and organisational practice in support of better mental health and wellbeing for students. In order to demonstrate these outcomes, the film highlights the processes undertaken to develop the training as well as key lessons learned, the pedagogical approach taken and the learning outcomes. Furthermore, it outlines the impact on staff behaviour and culture via contributions from a wide range of individuals.
Peer mentoring for supporting students with mental health and wellbeing: Stories and outcomes
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This project uses film to share the experiences of students and mentees of the support with mental health concerns. The film draws participants from a previously conducted study which was used in the development of the peer mentoring scheme.
Reaching out to students: a proactive approach to wellbeing at NUA
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Using animation, this project showcases and evidences new approaches adopted by the NUA Student Support team to become more accessible. This includes using social media, ‘drop-ins’, and the physical campus. This new and engaging approach has significantly changed the number and tone of interactions within the NUA student community, as well as removing a potential source of stress for academic colleagues.
Enhancing Student Well-Being and Positive Learning Environment @ Cardiff
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This project evidences the impact and benefits of the undertaken approaches to addressing mental health issues at Cardiff Business School. By developing a series of short films and other creative outputs, the aim of the project was to raise awareness within the teaching programme at Cardiff Business School and providing a blueprint of how the wellbeing agenda can be used to inform practise elsewhere.
Creative enquiry and the space to flourish in medical education
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This project focuses on what interventions are effective in leading and embedding approaches to addressing mental health and wellbeing amongst medical students. It examines creative arts-based interventions, which focus on practitioner development and human flourishing as two sides of the same coin. This involves understanding ourselves and understanding the other, how we listen to ourselves and how we listen to the other.
An intervention through teaching and learning practice for addressing stress and anxiety in students caused due to the challenge of studying a cross-disciplinary subject
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Professor Stephen McClean, Professor of Biomedical Education at Ulster University
Dr Elizabeth Hidson, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sunderland
This project focuses on multidisciplinary courses and uses a combination of student-centered, active and problem-based learning approaches adopted in the undergraduate Stratified Medicine programme at Ulster University. It examines the stress and anxiety that a cross-disciplinary subject (in this case, Computer Programming) causes among Personalised Medicine students and to what extent a computer programming pedagogy approach is able to address it.