Improving students’ wellbeing at university

Adla Betsaida Martins Teixeira,Bridgette M. Bewick

doi:10.35699/2237-5864.2021.24160

Abstract

This article presents the work done by Leeds University to develop a wellbeing program for students. Dr. Bridgette Bewick, an Associate Professor at School of Medicine, discusses her work on behavioral and psychological understanding of how to improve and support the mental health and wellbeing of university students. She affirms that improvement and support services to students’ mental health and wellbeing are necessary but not sufficient to facilitate student success while at university. Dr. Bewick hihglights the urgency to develop practices consistent with pedagogical wellbeing to address student education challenges that have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Highlights

Interviewer: Dr Bewick, you have such a large scientific production on social norms approach and intervention, and on behaviour change intervention with university students, at Leeds University
Students’ lives are becoming increasingly pressurized due to changes [that] have placed students under increasing ... pressure ... while higher education is expanding, there is concern that the structures ... to support students are not developing at an equivalent pace ...”3
15 years on people are still writing about the ‘crisis’ in student mental health and wellbeing and our need to develop support

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Interviewer: Dr Bewick, you have such a large scientific production on social norms approach and intervention, and on behaviour change intervention with university students, at Leeds University. E-mail: b.m.bewick@leeds.ac.uk 2 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Melhorar o bem-estar de alunos no ensino superior: a experiência da Universidade de Leeds (Reino Unido) Este artigo apresenta alguns dos esforços da Universidade de Leeds para desenvolver um programa de bem-estar para os alunos.

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