SMaRteN Sandpit: measuring student mental health
​Wednesday 13th March

To catch up on SMaRteN's Sandpit, visit our blog to hear from our very own Student Team about the day.
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Through this sandpit we aimed to support collaboration between research groups and universities interested in measuring and tracking student mental health and wellbeing. Over 40 people from across a variety of universities and organisations, including members from our own student research team, attended the event.
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Key topics for discussion on the day were:

• Preliminary feedback from the SMaRteN student-led research team project on measuring student mental health and wellbeing
• Preliminary early feedback from SMarRteN work on student ethnographic case studies, reflecting on how students are thinking about mental health and wellbeing
• The challenge of developing a set of core outcome measures for student mental health and well-being, and creating a common language
• Consideration of how to measure the cost implications of poor student functioning and mental health
• Networking opportunity
• Development of potential research projects for the Plus-funding call.