Gareth Hughes of Derby University on student learning and well-being
This episode I interview Gareth Hughes, lead researcher in student well-being at the University of Derby, about what he's learnt over the last decades working on student learning and well-being. We discuss: - how Derby is introducing various psycho-education classes into all its undergraduate courses, each tailored to the needs of different course students. - how to help students in the first six weeks of university, when a majority of them show clinical levels of distress - why Gareth thinks students have worse levels of anxiety now than ever before in his career - whether Kathryn Ecclestone is right that 'therapeutic education' is itself making young people unwell - why well-being teams at university need to think beyond counselling, and consider their philosophy It's great stuff. If you want to find out more about Flourishing Universities, go to https://blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/flourishing/