SMaRteN: A Case Study in Co-Producing Student Mental Health Initiatives

Michael Priestley, SMaRteN Student Team member 2018/2019

The Student Teams 18/19 and 19/20 at the SMaRteN Conference in December 2019.

The University Mental Health Charter recently highlighted student voice and participation as an enabling strategy for universities to effectively coordinate whole university change to student mental health outcomes. Student voice and participation via the co-production of student mental health research can offer one particularly rewarding route to understanding and responding to the student mental health context and support needs. The UKRI-funded Student Mental Health Research Network [SMaRteN] models a particularly ambitious, strategic, and effective approach to co-producing student mental health research. As an outgoing member of the SMaRteN student-led research team, I share my experiences of how the principles of co-production can be applied in research to better understand and change the state of student mental health in the higher education sector. 

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