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Student Mental Health: What Are the Key Questions?

This call for input is not longer active, but this page helps to show how SMaRteN came up with its key priorities and ensured the voice of students are at the heart of all the research we fund and the work we do. 
With rising concern about student mental health at university, we are calling for more research to better understand the state of student mental health and how best to support good mental health within the student population. 

We need your help. 
We want students to be truly represented, shaping future research in the mental health sector. 

What research questions do you think need answering? 
 Taking part is easy! Simply list up to the three questions in the form below. 

​Please note the closing date on the 15th March 2020. 
Take part

Who can take part? 

We want to hear from a broad range of students, whether you study medicine or architecture, history or Japanese, engineering or computer science. We want to hear the thoughts of LGBTQ+, BAME, International and mature Students. We are keen to hear from those with experience of mental health problems and those without. You can participate if you are an undergraduate student, taught or research postgraduate student. 

What happens when I submit my questions? 

  1. We will group all responses into themes 
  2. We will identify ‘unknown knowns’ – where the question asked has already been answered in the research literature 
  3. We will rank the remaining questions based on popularity, while continuing to consider minority issues 
  4. We will work with the project steering group to develop a report for the sector, to encourage future research to focus in on addressing the questions important to you. ​
  5. To kick start this research, we have £100,000 to be fund preliminary and pilot work to help researchers get started answering the top priority questions. 

How should I write my question?

This really doesn't matter too much. Whatever phrasing you feel best explains the ideas you think are important. 

However, if you want ideas, you can see examples of the questions and priorities that were submitted as part of other Research priority exercises here. http://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/top-10-priorities/

​(Note that these are from a variety of topics, not Student Mental Health – but should give you an idea of how people express their questions. Most importantly, we are trying to say that there is no requirement for the questions to be written in a particular, academic or scientific way). 

Welcome to the SMaRteN Network! We hope to hear from you soon.

Keep us up to date with your research! We love to showcase members' work and initiatives in student mental health research. 


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  • About
    • Contact
    • Leadership
    • Student Media Team
    • Student Team 20/21 >
      • Student Team 19/20
      • Student Team 18/19
    • Mental Health Research Matters
  • Take part
    • Co-Creation Project
    • Groups >
      • Our Virtual Groups
      • Past Sessions
      • Suggest a New Group
    • Participate in Research >
      • Student Mental Health: What Are the Key Questions?
  • Student Podcasts
  • Events
    • Past Events >
      • Tomorrow’s University: the future of student mental health & wellbeing
      • Webinar: “Embedding peer-assisted learning to support student mental health, wellbeing and academic progress”
      • Webinar: “Pathways to success: supporting good transitions into university”
      • Launch Event “Things and the mind”
      • Enhancing Inductions for Postgraduate Students
  • Funding
    • Funded Research 2019
    • Funded Research 2020
    • Funded Research 2021
    • CLOSED: Key Questions Funding Call
  • Interviews
  • Blog
    • Blog Post Guidance
  • Resources
    • Key Questions: Research Priorities for Student Mental Health
    • Student Services Partnerships Evaluation and Quality Standards (SPEQS) Toolkit
    • Measuring Wellbeing in the Student Population
    • COVID 19 Study
    • Review of National Surveys
    • Reading List
    • Newsletter