Ep 11: Student Wellbeing

Welcome to series 2 of the Brighter Thinking Pod!

In this episode, we’re looking into student wellbeing and mental health.

Join our host Georgia Robinson in our virtual studio with two new guests. Ros McLellan is a Lecturer in Teacher Education and Development / Pedagogical Innovation at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education. Tamsin Ford is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. 

Show notes

DFE social wellbeing report in 2019 

The children’s society ‘The good childhood report’

Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being. Felicia A. Huppert • Timothy T. C. So (2013). Soc Indic Res (2013) 110:837–861

Strength and difficulties questionnaire 

Mind checklist 

Mathews F, Newlove-Delgado T, Finning K, Boyle C, Hayes R, Johnston P, Ford T. Teachers' concerns about pupils' mental health in a cross-sectional survey of a population sample of British schoolchildren. Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2020 Apr 21.

PHSE curriculum

Schools for Health in Europe (The SHE network) 

Urie Bronfenbrenner ecological systems theory child development 

Michael Rutter and David Quinton young women east end of London grown up in children’s homes seminal study