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 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.
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.
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?
- We will group all responses into themes
- We will identify ‘unknown knowns’ – where the question asked has already been answered in the research literature
- We will rank the remaining questions based on popularity, while continuing to consider minority issues
- 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.
- 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).
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).
How can I help?
More questions? please contact the SMaRteN network coordinator Laura Beswick – laura.beswick@kcl.ac.uk