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Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools
Welcome to the SHINE December 2024 Newsletter
- A successful year of networking in 2024
- Save the date: SHINE National Network Conference 2025
- A new learning hub from ACAMH
- Some Christmas reading: new paper from HBSC
- Merry Christmas!
A successful year of networking in 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to thank all our member schools, young people, Local Authority contacts and associates for all the support you have continued to give the SHINE network this year.
We have thoroughly enjoyed networking with educational practitioners and young people through a variety of school visits, meetings with LA strategic leads, conferences, webinars presentations and teachers' panel events throughout the year. These invaluable research partnerships continue to inform the development of SHINE, ensuring excellent knowledge exchange and engagement when working together on our shared agendas to support improvements in young people's health and wellbeing as part of an evidence-based, whole-school approach.
SHINE Conference 2025: save the date!
The SHINE conference for 2025 will take place at the School of Health & Wellbeing on Thursday 15th May 2025. Further details of the programme and registration for the event will follow next term. We hope you will be able to join us.
A new learning hub for educational practitioners
ACAMH Learn is a new multi-disciplinary knowledge hub from the charity The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Educational practitioners can develop their understanding of adolescent mental health with evidence-based content from world leading experts and explore the different levels of learning that best suits their needs, with; talks, lectures, Q&As, interviews, quizzes, podcasts, and live streamed events.
Some Christmas reading! New paper from HBSC
Academics working on the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study have released a new paper based on the international HBSC data from 2022.
This paper was published in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal in November 2024 and explores the mechanisms behind the increasing gender gap in adolescent psychological symptoms, from 2002–2022 and the role of national-level gender equality.
Internalising problems have increased considerably among adolescents in the last decades, particularly among girls, resulting in widening gender gaps. This study examined whether the gender gap in psychological symptoms increased more in more gender-equal countries in the period 2002–2022, and if so, to what extent this could be explained by changes over time in the experience of stressors (i.e. schoolwork pressure, body dissatisfaction, low classmate support) among boys and girls in these countries.
From everyone at the SHINE team, we would like to wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas break. We look forward to working with you all again in 2025!
All the best,
The SHINE Team
Dawn Haughton
Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network (SHINE) Manager
E-mail: Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk
Web: www.gla.ac.uk/shine
Twitter: @ScotlandSHINE
