A whole university approach to student mental health support and investigation of key social and educational factors linked to student wellbeing.

学生的心理健康和福祉是国内和国际高等教育日益关注的一个领域。我的博士学位是同类研究中第一个评估学生福利提供创新变化的影响的研究——我在英国一所大型大学进行了一项研究，此前有一些学生死亡事件被高度宣传。这项奖学金将弥合我的博士研究和我未来的研究目标之间的差距，专注于与教育成果有关的学生福祉的社会和环境决定因素。在2019冠状病毒病之后，年轻人和高等教育部门面临前所未有的破坏，这项工作变得尤为重要。该奖学金将使我能够向学生、家长、心理健康专业人士和政策受众传播我博士学位的主要发现——“改善学生心理健康和福祉的整个大学方法：一种新的大学福利服务的混合方法评估”，并将这些重要发现发表在学术期刊上。奖学金也是一个机会，让我建立新的网络，发展我的研究技能和巩固我未来的研究计划。我打算保持我在博士学位期间建立的强大的利益相关者参与：布里斯托尔的学生和学者，英国大学领导，临床医生和教育专业人员，以及其他英国研究人员和机构，通过英国大学，学生思想和SMARTEN等国家网络-英国资助的国家学生心理健康研究网络。除了对“整个大学”人口的福利支持提供新颖的见解外，我的博士研究结果还反映了之前的心理健康和福祉研究，强调了不同学生群体之间的显著不平等。我未来的研究目标是在这项工作的基础上，研究与心理健康和学生特征有关的纵向学术成果，如课程退学和成绩，以及残疾、社会经济地位和种族等教育和社会因素。因此，该奖学金为我提供了一个跳板，让我研究使用布里斯托尔大学（University of Bristol） 2018年至2023年六年的健康数据集来研究这些不平等的可行性。与整个行业的社会科学家、公共卫生专家和高等教育提供者建立新的关系，也将使我能够探索未来在英国各地开展多地点学生健康研究的可能性。更好地了解学生心理健康和学业成绩的潜在预测因素，对于指导机构（和NHS）资源、最大限度地为学生带来积极成果和解决不平等问题至关重要。高等教育是一种环境，在这种环境中，有针对性和普遍适用的人口健康措施都可以对年轻人的心理健康和福祉产生重大影响，从而对他们的未来产生重大影响。

Student mental health and wellbeing is an area of growing concern in higher education nationally and internationally. My PhD was the first study of its kind to evaluate the impact of an innovative change in student welfare provision - research which I carried out at a large UK university after a number of highly publicised student deaths. This fellowship will bridge the gap between my doctoral studies and my future research aim to focus on social and environmental determinants of student wellbeing in relation to educational outcomes. This work has become particularly relevant after the unprecedented disruption faced by young people and the higher education (HE) sector in the aftermath of Covid-19. The fellowship will allow me to disseminate key findings from my PhD - 'A whole university approach to improving student mental health and wellbeing: Mixed-methods evaluation of a new university wellbeing service' to student, parent, mental health professional and policy audiences and to publish these important findings in academic journals. The fellowship is also an opportunity for me to forge new networks, develop my research skills and cement my future research plans. I intend to maintain the strong stakeholder engagement I have built during my PhD to involve: Bristol students and academics, UK university leaders, clinicians and education professionals, and other UK researchers and institutions via national networks such as Universities UK, Student Minds and SMARTEN - a UKRI-funded national student mental health research network. In addition to offering novel insight into welfare support for 'whole university' populations, my PhD findings also mirrored previous mental health and wellbeing research highlighting significant inequalities between different student groups. My future research ambitions are to build on this work, examining longitudinal academic outcomes such as course drop-out and attainment in relation to mental wellbeing and student characteristics, and educational and social factors such as disability, socio-economic status and ethnicity. As such, the fellowship offers a springboard for me to scope the feasibility of using a University of Bristol wellbeing dataset which spans six years 2018-2023 to examine these inequalities. Creating new relationships with social scientists, public health experts and HE providers across the sector will also allow me to explore the possibility of a future, multi-site student wellbeing study across the UK.Greater understanding of potential predictors of student mental wellbeing and academic outcomes is vital for directing institutional (and NHS) resource, maximising positive outcomes for students and addressing inequalities. Higher education is an environment in which both targeted and universally applied population health measures can have a significant impact on young people's mental health and wellbeing, and consequently their futures.