University Accommodation and Mental Health
In 2016-17 Student Minds, UPP and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) worked together on 'Student Living', a cross-organisational project funded thanks to the UPP Foundation to support student mental health. Recognising that it can often be accommodation staff: a cleaner, the night porter or security staff that pick up on students in distress or experiencing mental health difficulties, the project involved developing a training scheme for front-line staff, informed by a focused research project.
Our learning from this project and recommendations for the wider university and accommodation sectors can be found in our public guidance pack available below: Student Living: collaborating to support mental health in university accommodation.
Our learning from this project and recommendations for the wider university and accommodation sectors can be found in our public guidance pack available below: Student Living: collaborating to support mental health in university accommodation.
Download the full Student Living Report |
View the press release |
We welcome commitment from university and privately owned accommodation providers to develop support for students in their care, whilst acknowledging that important work is being undertaken by other partners around accommodation affordability. We hope that our public report enables greater cross-sector collaboration and shared learning between university and accommodation sectors, helping with the move towards whole-university approaches to supporting student and staff mental health.
Working with Student Minds
For accommodation providers or university colleagues that are interested in exploring partnership opportunities or undertaking projects related to the recommendations in this report with Student Minds, please contact view our website here or email info@studentminds.org.uk. We recommend that you first read the Public Report ‘Student Living: collaborating to support mental health in university accommodation’ above to help consider your approach to supporting student mental health, and discuss the report with your partner universities.
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Interested in funding our work to support student mental health? Get in touch.