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Student Wellbeing: Integrated Approaches
Event Details
Time: April 22, 2013 from 10am to 4pm
Location: Cardiff School of Education
Street: Cyncoed campus, Cyncoed Road
City/Town: Cardiff CF23 6XD
Website or Map: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ev…
Phone: jhuyton@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Event Type: seminar
Organized By: Higher Education Academy
Latest Activity: Feb 11, 2013
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Event Description
This seminar seeks to bring students and academic staff together with representatives from a range of other HE stakeholder groups including inter alia student services, and student representatives. The focus will be on student wellbeing, reviewing how to provide integrated support to promote resilience, maintain professional boundaries and enhance retention.
The seminar will be particularly relevant to individuals working in higher education who have an interest in student wellbeing.
Wellbeing is a pertinent issue for students at all academic levels. The centrality of wellbeing within the student experience is now widely acknowledged as a pre-requisite for successful study (Marshall, 2011). Widening participation has increased the number of first generation entrants who have no family tradition of university (Quinn et al., 2005) and the transition from school to degree is recognised as a challenging time for many (Cook, 2004) which may have an adverse impact on wellbeing. A project funded by the Higher Education Academy (Huyton and Sanders, 2011) reported factors affecting the physical and emotional wellbeing of a group of post-graduate student teachers. The study captures a range of stakeholder perspectives – students, university tutors, mentors and student services professionals. The student voice was of particular interest given the current HE policy context whereby students are central as partners and change agents, and the student experience is seen by funding councils as an indicator of quality assurance and enhancement. It has been noted (Huyton and Sanders, 2012) that higher education tutors and other professionals may need to work more closely together and with students on ensuring an approach which takes account of the nuanced nature of approaches to student wellbeing.
The seminar aims to bring together a range of stakeholders, student services professionals, workplace educators, academic staff and students in order to encourage debate and information exchange, culminating in a plenary session which will capture recommendations on an integrated approach to maintaining and enhancing the wellbeing of higher education students. The focus will be on how to ensure that:
- the provision of support is timely and accessible;
- appropriate support, rather than encouraging dependence, can facilitate autonomy and confidence;
- there is a joined up approach to support within an institution involving cooperation between all parties;
- professional boundaries are respected.
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