Are you interested in student mental health? Would you like to learn more about the research in this area?
Introducing... Keeping Students in Mind: Understanding Student Mental Health Research
This a student fronted podcast being collaboratively coordinated by SMaRteN and All Things Mental Health
Introducing... Keeping Students in Mind: Understanding Student Mental Health Research
This a student fronted podcast being collaboratively coordinated by SMaRteN and All Things Mental Health
SMaRteN is the national research network for student mental health. We have funded 19 projects to study student mental health, supporting a wide variety of work. For example, we have supported research asking how university accommodation impacts student mental health and what challenges international students face. As well as research we’ve funded evaluations to consider how new interventions might improve student mental health, such as using peer study groups, arts-based workshops and new approaches to how we teach.
We are now inviting students to work with our researchers to share their findings in an engaging way for a student audience via podcasts and All Things Mental Health are the perfect organisation to help us achieve this aim.
All Things Mental Health is a University of Oxford funded podcast discussing Mental Health in Young Minds. They focus on schooling, through to higher education, encouraging their audience to be curious about the mental health and wellbeing of young people during these chapters of change. Series 2 welcomes different topics of conversation from leading psychologists, policy makers, writers, activists, researchers and many more. This podcast is brought to you by Aneeska Sohal, the Presenter, who is a Trustee for the student mental health charity Student Minds, and a Masters student at the University of Oxford. Their Illustrator is Lizzie Knott, recent winner of a 2020 World Illustration Award. Their Editor is Saul Devlin, who works in Radio and is a Music and Sound Recording student. Head over to their Spotify & Instagram for more.
Spotify: All Things Mental Health | Podcast on Spotify
Instagram: @allthings.mentalhealth
As part of the project we are also bringing in further expertise from mental health podcaster Nicol Bergou.
Nicol is a PhD student at King's College London. Her research is focused on psychosis and using machine learning to predict which patients will get better and which will experience further psychotic episodes. She is a host and editor of the PhDeets podcast which talks about doing a PhD in the UK. She has also co-founded and produced a podcast series called Beyond the HYPE in which young people interviewed scientists and clinicians about topics related to young people's health and wellbeing. Nicol also runs podcasting training for young people interested in starting their own podcast.
Crucially though, the most important collaborators for this project will be our student-led team of podcasters.
If you have an idea for a podcast episode around student mental health research, we would love to hear from you. You do not need experience in recording or producing podcasts. We’ll be partnering students with great ideas up with an experienced team to produce a short podcast series, with each successful applicant getting to research, host and record an episode of their own to shine a spotlight on SMaRteN funded research and student mental health.
We are now inviting students to work with our researchers to share their findings in an engaging way for a student audience via podcasts and All Things Mental Health are the perfect organisation to help us achieve this aim.
All Things Mental Health is a University of Oxford funded podcast discussing Mental Health in Young Minds. They focus on schooling, through to higher education, encouraging their audience to be curious about the mental health and wellbeing of young people during these chapters of change. Series 2 welcomes different topics of conversation from leading psychologists, policy makers, writers, activists, researchers and many more. This podcast is brought to you by Aneeska Sohal, the Presenter, who is a Trustee for the student mental health charity Student Minds, and a Masters student at the University of Oxford. Their Illustrator is Lizzie Knott, recent winner of a 2020 World Illustration Award. Their Editor is Saul Devlin, who works in Radio and is a Music and Sound Recording student. Head over to their Spotify & Instagram for more.
Spotify: All Things Mental Health | Podcast on Spotify
Instagram: @allthings.mentalhealth
As part of the project we are also bringing in further expertise from mental health podcaster Nicol Bergou.
Nicol is a PhD student at King's College London. Her research is focused on psychosis and using machine learning to predict which patients will get better and which will experience further psychotic episodes. She is a host and editor of the PhDeets podcast which talks about doing a PhD in the UK. She has also co-founded and produced a podcast series called Beyond the HYPE in which young people interviewed scientists and clinicians about topics related to young people's health and wellbeing. Nicol also runs podcasting training for young people interested in starting their own podcast.
Crucially though, the most important collaborators for this project will be our student-led team of podcasters.
If you have an idea for a podcast episode around student mental health research, we would love to hear from you. You do not need experience in recording or producing podcasts. We’ll be partnering students with great ideas up with an experienced team to produce a short podcast series, with each successful applicant getting to research, host and record an episode of their own to shine a spotlight on SMaRteN funded research and student mental health.
Who should apply?
This is open to university students of all ages and all levels, but we are looking to recruit hosts without a prior academic background in mental health research, so this is unlikely to be a suitable for postgraduate students within the field of Psychology already.
What does it involve?
This is a paid opportunity, with each student contributor receiving a £500 payment. We value your time and think it is important to ensure our collaborators are appropriately rewarded for their contributions, but it does also reflect that this is a commitment and we will expect you to take a reliable and professional approach to attending sessions and engaging with the team.
Podcasts will be planned, recorded and edited between October 2021 and January 2022. To take part you need to be a student and have some availability between these dates.
Podcasts will be planned, recorded and edited between October 2021 and January 2022. To take part you need to be a student and have some availability between these dates.
The application process
We will be holding short, relaxed interviews as part of recruitment. Interviews till take place during October and we will arrange a convenient time to suit you, but please consider your availability before applying. It is likely that November will then be used for group training sessions so, again, please consider your availability for this. Interviews and training will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams.
To apply, we would like to ask you a few questions about yourself. We are asking these questions to give us the opportunity to bring together diverse groups of students within the project and to also help us monitor whether we are effectively reaching and engaging with students.
Throughout the application process, we want to hear about what you think matters and so ask that you find a piece of student mental health research you think is important and feel passionately about sharing with a wider student audience. Part of the training you will get to work closely with the podcast team and the researcher to refine your approach, for now we just want to hear about your motivations and interests.
To apply, please complete our online application form. The deadline for submitting your application is the end of the day on Sunday 19th September.
The form will save your progress so you can complete the application in multiple sittings, but you must make sure you have submitted by the deadline.
If you have any questions, please email smarten@kcl.ac.uk
To apply, we would like to ask you a few questions about yourself. We are asking these questions to give us the opportunity to bring together diverse groups of students within the project and to also help us monitor whether we are effectively reaching and engaging with students.
Throughout the application process, we want to hear about what you think matters and so ask that you find a piece of student mental health research you think is important and feel passionately about sharing with a wider student audience. Part of the training you will get to work closely with the podcast team and the researcher to refine your approach, for now we just want to hear about your motivations and interests.
To apply, please complete our online application form. The deadline for submitting your application is the end of the day on Sunday 19th September.
The form will save your progress so you can complete the application in multiple sittings, but you must make sure you have submitted by the deadline.
If you have any questions, please email smarten@kcl.ac.uk