Executive Summary
This report shines a light on the progress of our Health and Wellbeing strategy, a key pillar of UWE Bristol Strategy 2030: Transforming Futures.
As a university, we have five key priority areas for Health and Wellbeing at UWE Bristol:
Before we go into each priority in detail, let’s start with a quick summary of our 2022–23 progress.
Our Living Well programme was recognised by the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) as one of five projects within HE to identify and use effective practice to support student mental health.
The Centre for Music (CfM) now has over 2,000 registered members. That’s up 15% on the previous year, and a 400% increase since 2017.
This year, more than 5,500 students registered for our UWE Bristol Sport MOVE programme.
Feel Good’s January media campaign gained over 66,060 total video views. The team also delivered a very successful staff wellbeing programme, with 21 staff groups taking part.
Over 4,000 students engaged with more than 235 Student Life Assistant team activities and events.
318 students and 25 staff members took part in our sustainable period product trial.
Our Student Loneliness research engaged 7 students in interviews, 203 complete responses for our first survey, and 185 responses to our follow-up survey. We’ll use the findings to inform our strategy development.
We’re developing a Customer First approach to enhance our flexibility and responsiveness when students are experiencing difficulties.
We successfully launched our Health and Wellbeing Innovation scheme for staff. This gives us the foundation we need to create, develop, pilot and evaluate new health and wellbeing initiatives.
We have clear flexible working practices in place for staff, and we’re starting to develop toolkits and frameworks to further support managers.
Our Living Well programme was recognised by the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) as one of five projects within HE to identify and use effective practice to support student mental health.
The Centre for Music (CfM) now has over 2,000 registered members. That’s up 15% on the previous year, and a 400% increase since 2017.
This year, more than 5,500 students registered for our UWE Bristol Sport MOVE programme.
Feel Good’s January media campaign gained over 66,060 total video views. The team also delivered a very successful staff wellbeing programme, with 21 staff groups taking part.
Over 4000 students engaged with more than 235 Student Life Assistant team activities and events.
318 students and 25 staff members took part in our sustainable period product trial.
Our Student Loneliness research engaged 7 students in interviews, 203 complete responses for our first survey, and 185 responses to our follow-up survey. We’ll use the findings to inform our strategy development.
We’re developing a Customer First approach to enhance our flexibility and responsiveness when students are experiencing difficulties.
We successfully launched our Health and Wellbeing Innovation scheme for staff. This gives us the foundation we need to create, develop, pilot and evaluate new health and wellbeing initiatives.
We have clear flexible working practices in place for staff, and we’re starting to develop toolkits and frameworks to further support managers.
Here’s a look at our five key areas of focus for 2023–24.
Student:
More targeted interventions with a focus on male mental health.
Student:
Developing a university-wide coaching approach and framework.
Staff:
Reviewing staff health and wellbeing governance.
Staff:
Continuing our ‘Starting Well’ work to deliver a positive experience for all staff groups and new joiners.
University:
Developing our anti-racist strategy and actioning the recommendations from the University Mental Health Charter.
Student:
More targeted interventions with a focus on male mental health.
Student:
Developing a university-wide coaching approach and framework.
Staff:
Reviewing staff health and wellbeing governance.
Staff:
Continuing our ‘Starting Well’ work to deliver a positive experience for all staff groups and new joiners.
University:
Developing our anti-racist strategy and actioning the recommendations from the University Mental Health Charter.