Project | Student mental health project

About this project

TASO led a consortium of expert partners to develop resources to help higher education practitioners responsible for designing and implementing interventions to support student mental health. These resources were previously part of the Student mental health evidence hub and are now available on this page.

Appointed by the Office for Students, expertise was provided by What Works Wellbeing, SMaRteN, Student Minds and AMOSSHE.

Resources

The resources provide information and guidance that the higher education sector can apply to improve the efficacy of their mental health practices. It includes guidance on evaluating existing programmes of support, examples of current practice, and a first-of-its-kind toolkit outlining the evidence base on what works and mapping it to the University Mental Health Charter.

The resources were developed with the support of a student panel, including students from various backgrounds, course and higher education providers, all with an interest in supporting student mental health. The panel provided insights into how students experience current support systems in higher education. 

If you would like to find out more or have any questions around this project, please get in touch with us at research@taso.org.uk. 

Thank you

This project has very much been a collaborative endeavour. It would not have come about without the expertise and dedication of our consortium partners: AMOSSHE The Student Services Organisation, SMaRteN/King’s College London, Student Minds and What Works Wellbeing. We would also like to thank UUK for their expertise at the beginning of the project. For their insight and enthusiasm, we’d like to thank our student panel.

We would like to give special thanks to Katie Rakow and Luqmaan Waqar from King’s College London whose attention to detail was essential to the development of our evidence review and examples of practice.

We would also like to thank the researchers and interns. Thank you to our interns Emily Burchell, Miles Johnson and Bethan Hoggan who worked tirelessly and meticulously on our evidence review. For their diligent contributions to the evidence review, we would like to thank Sanjana Prabhakar, Aleksandra Hoscilowicz, Ben Ettridge, Chloe Hayes, Emelia Pasternak-Albert, Ilinca Zaharia, James Murphy, Molly Whitbread and Shruti Sharma from King’s College London.

Finally, we would like to thank all the research participants who generously gave their time and insights in our qualitative sector engagement research.