Call for examples of practice: student mental health interventions
The Student Mental Health Project is an Office for Students (OfS) funded project that aims to help higher education providers develop their student mental health interventions. The project has developed a Student Mental Health Evidence Hub, a free resource consisting of an evidence-based toolkit, evaluation guidance, examples of practice and the results of our sector engagement and student panel work.
The project was led by The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) as part of a consortium with What Works Wellbeing, SMaRteN, Student Minds and AMOSSHE, the Student Services Organisation.
The Hub contains a number of examples of practice that showcase a variety of approaches to student mental health support in higher education. These examples have been collated as a result of calls to the sector issued by TASO. If you would like to submit an example of practice, please use the form at the bottom of this page.
Please note that submissions will not automatically be included on the Hub. TASO will consider your submission and whether it is suitable to be included; we may not be able to provide extensive feedback on this process, whether your submission is featured or not.
Scope of the examples of practice
We will consider a wide range of examples of practice to enlarge the evidence base. Examples must be of interventions that:
- Interventions that improve student mental health and wellbeing.
- Interventions may be ongoing, or where data collection and analyses have concluded within the last five academic years.
We are particularly interested in hearing about interventions with the following features:
Interventions targeting students, particularly the following groups:
- Students who identify as LGBTQA+
- Socioeconomically disadvantaged students
- Students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds
- Students with experience of care
- Students with caring responsibilities
- Mature students
Interventions of the following type:
- Recreation programmes (e.g., music, art)
- Active Psychoeducation interventions (taught skills via training and workshops)
- Pedagogy and professional training
- Places and spaces (infrastructure, buildings etc.)
- Setting-based (security, feeling safe, finance)
- Peer mentoring and peer support
- Intersystem collaboration ( communication with external services)
- Improve student mental health and longer-term student outcomes in higher education (retention, progression, awarding).
If you have any questions, please contact research@taso.org.uk
What will we do with examples of practice?
A selection of the examples of practice will appear on the Student Mental Health Evidence Hub as a resource for other HEPs to learn from.
If you have any questions regarding the open call, please get in touch and we can arrange an informal conversation.