World mental health day 2018: SMaRteN's future retrospective

On world mental health day, we invited a panel of experts to imagine that it was 2030 and asked them to reflect on what student mental health will be like in 2030. Our panel discuss their thoughts on student mental health in the future and discuss the actions that the higher education sector needs to take, as a whole, to help the sector improve student mental health. The panel was opened by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences and included: 

• Sherene Howard-Walker, Positive Peer
• Jo Levy, Head of Counselling, Outreach and Training
• Salman Shaheen, KCL Peer Supporter
• Rosie Tressler, CEO of Student Minds, the UK’s student mental health charity.
• Meg Zeenat Wamithi, Founder and Director of My Mind Matters Too
• Anne-Marie Henderson, Specialist Student Adviser for Vulnerable Students

The panel was chaired by the fantastic Julia Haas, Wellbeing advisor at KCLSU. 

If you missed the event, you can catch up with all the highlights via our YouTube channel.