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Explore research, view current projects and discover resources, designed to help you plan and deliver effective evaluations for your widening-participation interventions.

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Current project

Current project

Project | Randomised controlled trials to evaluate wellbeing interventions prompted by analytics

21 November 2024

TASO is working with three universities to participate in a project that will evaluate their student mental health and wellbeing interventions (prompted by analytics).

Mental health and wellbeingRandomised controlled trials
Guidance and resources

Guidance and resources

Resources | Student mental health project

A range of open access digital resources to help the higher education sector improve support for student mental health

Mental health and wellbeing
Current project

Current project

Project | Evaluation of mental health and wellbeing interventions with small cohorts

20 November 2024

TASO is working with two universities to participate in a project that will evaluate student mental health and wellbeing interventions they deliver to small cohorts.

Mental health and wellbeingTheory-based evaluation
Current project

Current project

Project | Using quasi-experimental designs to evaluate mental health and wellbeing interventions

22 October 2024

TASO is working with three higher education providers to participate in a project that will evaluate their student mental health and wellbeing interventions using quasi-experimental designs.

Mental health and wellbeingQuasi-experimental designs
Guidance and resources

Guidance and resources

Examples of practice: student mental health support

We have sought to find a range of examples of practice, addressing different interventions, target groups and being implemented by a range of higher education providers.

Mental health and wellbeing
Guidance and resources

Guidance and resources

Guidance: Student mental health evaluation

Assessing the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve student mental health is complex. This guide has been developed as part of the Student mental health project, lead by TASO and a consortium of partners

Mentoring, counselling, coachingSelf-advocacyMental health and wellbeing
Guidance and resources

Guidance and resources

Mental health: glossary of terms

Mental health and wellbeing
Report

Report

Report | Student mental health in 2023: Who is struggling and how the situation is changing

Around one in six undergraduates now report experiencing mental health challenges, according to this analysis by The Policy Institute at King’s College London and TASO.

Mental health and wellbeing
Report

Report

Report | The current landscape of the delivery and evaluation of student mental health interventions

With an increasing need for more support for student mental health, this report provides insights from those involved in the delivery and evaluation of current student mental health interventions.

Mental health and wellbeing
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Student mental health project

15 October 2023

A range of open access digital resources to help the higher education sector improve support for student mental health

Mental health and wellbeing
Report

Report

Report | Student wellbeing over time: analysing Student Academic Experience Survey data for undergraduates and taught postgraduates

This report analyses data to examine how the wellbeing of undergraduate and taught postgraduate students has changed over time, and how it varies according to demographic characteristics and circumstances.

Mental health and wellbeing
Report

Report

Report | The Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Students

This report explores the subjective wellbeing of LGBTQ+ students based on the analysis of data from the Student Academic Experiences Survey.

Mental health and wellbeing

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