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Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools
Welcome to the SHINE March 2023 Newsletter
- SHINE webinar 10: Young people & Loneliness 23rd March 2023: last chance to register
- SHINE annual national network conference 2023 - draft programme available
- Research Data Scotland - funding bid success for SHINE
- SHINE affiliated research projects: Beyond Behaviour & ESAS
- Resources for educational practitioners
- Other events
- Other research projects for schools - health researchers can visit your school
SHINE Webinar 10 - last chance to register
Thursday 23rd March 2023 16.00-17.00
"Young people and loneliness: what we know, and implications for schools"
Dr Emily Long and Dr Claire Goodfellow will share the very best learning and understanding of different aspects of loneliness in the 10th SHINE webinar, followed by an opportunity for Q&A and shared insights from delegates.
Registration will close on Wed 22nd March at 12pm. The link for the webinar will be sent out to registered delegates on Wed 22nd afternoon.
SHINE annual national network conference 2023
4th annual SHINE national network conference
Tuesday 16th May 2023: 09.30-15.30pm
Clarice Pears Building, School of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Road, G12 8TB
"From evidence to action: a whole-school approach to improving young people's mental health and wellbeing”.
Invitations to register will be sent by email to members and associates of the SHINE network in March.
There will be a focus on moving from evidence to intervention. As part of the networking event, we would like to feature case studies from SHINE schools who have used the SHINE mental health survey to share their experiences and how the data report influenced subsequent improvement planning and intervention programmes.
Register your SHINE case study
These guidelines can help you to plan your case study and email it to Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk for inclusion in the event or the SHINE case studies resource.
Research Data Scotland
Funding bid success for SHINE
SHINE is one of nine projects to receive funding from Research Data Scotland (RDS) to support public engagement in data research. Receiving funding of £2,705, SHINE will work with young people, parents/carers and teachers to produce a video and infographic around data linkage, with a focus on helping pupils, parents and teachers understand how data linkage works and the public benefits,
To find out more about this and join the consultation, see details below for the SHINE/Datamind consultation.
Two ways to get involved and join the discussion on using personal identifiers in health research
- Face-to-face focus groups with pupils from a secondary school: 2 consultations with up to 8 pupils in each
- Online evening focus groups with educational staff and parents/carers :
- one consultation with up to 6 teachers
- one consultation with up to 6 parents/carers
Your school can take part in all of these activities or decide to take part in either the pupil, teacher, or parent/carer consultations.
How will the feedback be used?
The feedback and perspectives will be used to create resources for pupils, parents and teachers to explain why personal identifiers are collected, how they are used and how personal data are protected. Videos, guidelines and leaflets will be created to explain how health data can be linked with other data to better understand how to find solutions to health difficulties.
Contact Mary.Wilson@glasgow.ac.uk to register your interest
SHINE affiliated research projects
Last spaces available - register interest by 27th March 2023
Behavioural diagnosis - help or hindrance?
Last 2 spaces available for schools to take part in this exciting SHINE affiliated project.
Beyond Behaviour is led by a research team from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Education & Sport seeking to work with pupils, their parent/carers and associated school staff across Scotland. The purpose of the study is to explore why some pupils who at times require additional support to engage positively in school are referred for a clinical diagnosis for a neurodevelopmental (NDD) or behavioural disorder (e.g. ADHD) and others are not. The project will investigate the social impact for the pupil of being given, or not given a clinical diagnosis for a behavioural disorder. This is important because how young people are identified and described affects how they see themselves. This in turn has implications for how they behave and how they view themselves as learners. register your interest to receive further information at Beyond.behaviour@ed.ac.uk
National Evaluation of the Equally Safe at School programme in secondary schools.
Recruitment is now well underway with schools registering interest. There's still time to register if you would like to take part, details below:
The University of Glasgow is partnering with Rape Crisis Scotland to undertake a national evaluation of the Equally Safe at School programme; a whole-school intervention available to Scottish Secondary Schools to help them address sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV). ESAS is freely available to schools (via an online portal) and complements other interventions such as MVP (Mentors in Violence Prevention) and the Rape Crisis Sexual Violence Prevention programme.
Recent evidence from the University of Glasgow has confirmed that sexual harassment is common in Scottish Schools. Whilst there is much good practice in Scotland, many schools, young people and other partners have recognised the scale of the challenge and the need for support to address the issue comprehensively.
Why is an evaluation needed? Schools that have implemented ESAS so far see its value but it is still important to produce robust evidence of the benefits of the approach..
To register interest or find out more, please contact the evaluation team here: sphsu-esas@glasgow.ac.uk Professor Kirstin Mitchell, SPHSU, University of Glasgow
Resources for educational practitioners
Research suggests there is a clear link between a positive school culture and good mental health and wellbeing. Schools that support mental health are likely to deliver health promotion and education and recognise the importance of the wider environment in supporting students’ health.
Participatory Action Research is an approach in which people collaboratively research their own experience or environment. In this context, it involves a small group of students and school staff who become researchers in their school. The group meet regularly to reflect on their school’s culture and identify changes they would like to make to positively impact student mental health. These researchers then make one of those changes, collect information about it and reflect on whether it has had the desired effect
The Participatory Action Research (PAR) toolkit has been launched and can be freely downloaded from the SPHR website. The toolkit includes all the resources and guidance needed for schools to implement PAR to improve school culture and support mental health.
Other events
Dr Mark McCann will present 'Net4health: Social networks and adolescent health' at the next Social Network Analysis in Scotland seminar. It will take place on Tuesday 28th March from 4-5pm in Clarice Pears room 457, Byres Road and also on Zoom (passcode 945508). Net4health is the most recent of four decades of networks and health studies conducted by the SPHSU. It aims to study how friendships, emotionally supportive relationships, and negative relationships influence health and wellbeing. Mark will give an overview of preliminary findings from the first wave of data collection, and discuss how schools’ self-evaluation and improvement planning can benefit from a relational approach to data collection.
Comparing the 2000s and 2020s, Net4Health will study changes in relational influences on adolescent health, such as:
- Is poor mental health becoming more “contagious” over time?
- Are school friendship groups less cohesive than before?
- Does most emotional support come from inside school, or outside?
The SNAS seminar presentation will give an overview of the preliminary findings from the first wave of data collection, and discuss how Schools’ self-evaluation and improvement planning can benefit from a relational approach to data collection.
Research projects for schools - researchers can visit your school
"New study - SOCITS: SOCial sITuational Systems approach to measuring influences on adolescent mental health.
The SOCITS project will create a new method for researchers, counsellors, teachers, and young people to do research about adolescent mental health. Looking at SOCial, sITuational Systems is what we call the SOCITS approach. SOCITS will help to understand the reasons for things like loneliness, stress and poor mental health.
The SOCITS study will involve developing health surveys that are tailored to each individual school. Rather than using generic loneliness or stress questionnaires, SOCITS will ask about the places and social situations in and around the school, and study how these situations affect mood and feelings.
For full information click here
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
