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Using health and well-being data to support improvements in mental health in schools
Welcome to the SHINE March 2025 Newsletter
- SHINE National Network Conference 2025 - registration closing 30th April
- SHINE website refresh
- Invitation to participate in new survey to understand current practice around Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance (ABSAIL project)
- Police Scotland: Partnership Learning Opportunities for teachers webinars 2025
- Including young people in health research - £100 for participating pilot schools
- Other research events, resources and opportunities:
- Generation Scotland: support young people to take part in health research
- Invitation to join study on the impact of Long Covid in teaching and other public service occupations in Scotland
SHINE Conference 2025: registration closing 30th April 2025
The SHINE Conference 2025 will take place at the School of Health & Wellbeing on Thursday 15th May 2025. Invitations have been sent directly to school members and Local Authority associates via email with the registration link. Registration will close on 30th April.
Full details of the programme and confirmed speakers can be found here and will include:
- The HWB context for young people related to smartphone and social media use
- Findings from three sleep research projects to showcase school-based research and useful knowledge for schools
- School and Local Authority case studies
- An update on the progress of the ABSAIL project (Addressing Barriers to School Attendance to Improve Long-term Outcomes)
- New resources to support schools to mitigate young people's anxiety and negative thoughts which lead to social and academic non-engagement
As previously, attendance at the conference is free to SHINE members and associates. We have 100 delegate spaces in total for this popular event which provides an opportunity for collaboration between schools and health researchers to promote understanding of how research expertise can support an evidence-based, whole-school approach to improvement planning for health and wellbeing in schools.
Please check availability with your line manager before reserving a place. We hope you will be able to join us.
SHINE website refresh
The SHINE website has undergone a makeover! Please have a look at the refreshed site, which can still be found at www.gla.ac.uk/shine and/or https://shw-shine.glasgow.ac.uk
We hope you like the new format!
Invitation to participate in a new survey to understand current practice around Emotionally-Based School Non-Attendance
We would like to invite senior and middle school leaders with a responsibility for attendance from your school to participate in an online survey to explore current practice in relation to EBSNA (Emotionally-based School Non-Attendance) within Scottish Secondary and Primary Schools.
The ‘Addressing Barriers to School Attendance to Improve Long-Term Outcomes’ (ABSAIL) project aims to identify ways to improve health, social and educational outcomes for young people experiencing Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) by exploring the issues from a school and family/young person perspective. It will explore examples of effective practice and how schools and related services can best support young people who are affected. The project is led by the University of Glasgow and funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. See our website for more information: www.gla.ac.uk/ABSAIL or email ebsna@glasgow.ac.uk
Police Scotland: Partnership Learning Opportunities for teachers webinar programme
Police Scotland are providing a series of Partnership Learning Opportunities for teachers in 2025. These free, online webinar sessions cover topics such as learning to use the I AM ME Scotland primary and secondary school resources, hate crime, licensing & violence prevention, firework safety and substance use.
If you wish to attend any of the sessions please contact policingtogetherchildrenandyoungpeople@scotland.police.uk.
Including young people in health research
SHINE and Generation Scotland have been working in partnership to develop a suite of resources for schools to explain what is big data, how does data linkage work and why research data ethics are so important. We are delighted to be one of 5 projects to receive funding from Research Data Scotland to improve the design, and broaden the range of accessibility and relevance for young people and schools. The aim is to improve engagement with the lesson plans in order to reach a wider audience with maximum impact, ensuring that young people have a good understanding of health research methods.
We are able to offer £100 to schools who would like to pilot this resource and provide feedback. Lesson content and resources would be made available to participating schools. To find out more, please contact sarah.robertson@ed.ac.uk at Generation Scotland or Dawn.Haughton@glasgow.ac.uk at SHINE.
Other research events, resources and opportunities for schools
Generation Scotland, the largest family health study in Scotland: new compensation scheme for young people aged 12-18 years old
Offering £20 compensation to volunteers aged 12-18!
Generation Scotland, the largest family health study in Scotland, recently launched a new compensation scheme for young people aged 12-18 years old, following feedback received from young advisory group members.
Young people are often under-represented in health research, but are needed since so many conditions start developing much younger than 18. We need to include them in order to work towards cures and better understanding of health.
The last few years have been exceptionally challenging for young people following the pandemic and we still do not fully understand the long-term impact of this and other challenging facing young people.
We understand it can be especially hard for young people to make the time to volunteer, due to commitments such as school. As young people are currently less than 2% of our volunteers, we wish to support them to be part of our study and help us better understand the unique challenges faced by this generation.
This £20 e-voucher will be claimable once the young person has completed our signup process. Our new compensation covers time spent joining Generation Scotland. For more information please visit www.gen.scot or email sarah.robertson@ed.ac.uk
Take part in our study on the impact of long sickness absences on people employed in frontline occupations in Scotland.
We would like to find out about how primary and secondary public sector teachers, managers, advisory staff and service delivery planners are affected by long-term sickness absence, including due to Long COVID, within education services.
We’d like to hear from you if:
- you are a public sector school teacher (primary or secondary) whose work has been affected by someone’s long-term sickness absence (due to Long Covid or other health conditions) within your department or school (e.g. changes to your workload or hours, changes to your tasks
- OR you manage or advise teachers whose working lives have been affected by long-term sickness absences (e.g. you are a principal teacher, faculty head, school senior leadership team member, occupational health or HR adviser, trade union representative)
- OR you advise managers who support teachers affected by long-term sickness absence (e.g. you are an occupational health or HR adviser)
- OR you plan delivery of public sector teaching services in Scotland.
What happens if you take part?
- Taking part will involve doing a one-to-one confidential interview with a researcher lasting up to 45-60 mins. The interview will be at a time to suit you and will usually be online or on the phone.
- All the interview questions are optional, so you can choose not to answer any of the questions and you are free to stop at any time.
- You will be offered a £20 voucher as a thank you for taking part. Information sheet
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
