Student Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Knowledge Exchange and Transfer Conference

Attendance at this event is by invitation only. Invited participants will be sent the registration login and details. Registration will stay open until the morning of the event, but any registrations from now on will not receive a printed badge.

City, University of London will hold a Knowledge Exchange and Transfer conference on Student Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Wednesday 15th June 2022 from 11am to 5pm. The event will take place at City, University of London with talks shared online following the event.

The event will bring together relevant stakeholders, including students, student union, student services, clinical practitioners, academics, and student mental health researchers to:
- Open conversations around student mental health and COVID-19
- Establish collaborations and working relationships across different entities at universities to mitigate the long-term effects of COVID-19 on student mental health
- Hear from students, what issues they have experienced as a consequence of the pandemic and what they would like to see with respect to support and culturally sensitive mental health provisions

Key speakers and panelists include: Shaima Dallali - City University Student Union President, Henry Jones - CEO of togetherall, an online mental health and wellbeing community, the SMaRteN research network, Dr Jessica Jones-Nielsen - Assistant Vice President (EDI- Race Equality) and counselling psychologist, student panellists and research and poster presentations, showcasing the latest research on Student Mental Health and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Schedule

10.30-11.00 Registration

11.00-11.10 Opening remarks  

11.10-11.40 Shaima Dallali, president elect NUS
Talk: Students' views on mental health and COVID-19 - biggest challenges and ways forward

11.40-12.10 Dr Ellie Dommet, SMaRteN leadership team, King’s College London
Talk: The SMaRteN priority setting exercise, COVID related research, and how to get involved with SMaRteN

12.10-12.40 Henry Jones, Together all CEO. Talk:  The Power of Community – a population approach to student mental health

12.50-13.40 Lunch & poster presentations  

13.40-14.15 Dr Jessica Jones Nielsen, Assistant Vice President (EDI- Race Equality) and Counselling Psychologist, City University of London
Talk: Supporting and improving student mental health through intersectional approaches

14.15-14.30 Dr Trish Jackman, Lincoln University
Talk: The impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK for doctoral and early career researchers

14.30-14.45 Dr Lucian Milasan, Nottingham Trent University
Talk: Student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a UK-based survey

14.45-15.00 Dr Emma Broglia, Sheffield University
Talk: Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures

15.00- 15.30 Coffee break  

15.30-16.00 Knowledge transfer and exchange breakout room discussions

16.00-16.30 Panel discussion

16.30-16:40 Closing remarks  

16.40-17.15 Drinks and networking

This event is being run in collaboration with the SMaRteN network.

Podcast

Welcome to the brand new Podcast: Covid-19, The Student Experience. In these podcasts we’ll be looking at how students were affected by the coronavirus pandemic. In episode 1 we spoke to some inspirational students who shared their story of how they found themselves in the role of carers or dealing with family members with health problems during Covid

Listen here to the podcast here
Visit the podcast website