Nurture-U
Outputs

Here are our current Nurture-U publications: 

• Dooley, J., Alsaadi, N., & Watkins, E. (2026). Joint Adaptation of a Digital Mental Health Intervention for University Students: Inductive Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Participatory Medicine, 18(1), e80776.

• Dooley, J., Okobia, V., Alsaadi, N., Bate, J., Hyde, C., Prajapati, Y., Card, P., Thomas, F., Watkins, E., Lawrence, L., Byrom, N. (2026). Student perspectives on ‘critical compassion’ in higher education: the Nurture-U compassionate campus project. Higher Education Research & Development, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2026.2615302

• Dooley, J. Card, P., Thomas, F., Lawrence, L., Watkins, E., Byrom, N. (2025) Building a More Compassionate Campus: Guidance for making our Campuses More Compassionate. Project Report. 

• Dooley, J., Forbes, V., Green, A., Pranati, M., Card, P., Thomas, F., Watkins, E & Lawrence, L. (2025). Institutional Compassion in Student Transition to University: Findings from the Nurture-U Compassionate Campus Project. Education Sciences, 15(4), 455.

• Marshall, E., Duffy, A.C., Chamberlain, S.R., Dooley, J., Dorey, L., Forty, L., Matlock, K.A., Newbold, A., Quinn, A., Rees, S. and Robinson, L.J. (2025). Nurture-U student mental health longitudinal survey: a study protocol. BMJ open, 15(2), p.e098413.

• Nzewi, U.J and the Compassionate Campus team. (2024). Barriers and Enablers to International Students and Minoritised Ethnic Students Accessing Wellbeing Services at the University of Exeter. Student Report. 

• Dooley, J., Ghezal, A., Gilpin, T., Hassan Basri, H., Humberstone, K., Lahdelma, A., Misurya, P., Marshall, E. and Watkins, E. (2023). Assessing the impact of university students’ involvement in the first year of Nurture-U: a national student wellbeing research project. Research Involvement and Engagement, 9(1), 95.

• Armstrong, N., & Byrom, N. C. (2023). The Impact of Mitigating Circumstances Procedures: Student Satisfaction, Wellbeing and Structural Compassion on the Campus. Education Sciences, 13(12), 1230.

• Watkins, E. R., Phillips, D., Cranston, T., Choueiri, H., Newton, M., Cook, H., & Taylor, G. (2024). A randomized controlled trial of a self-guided mobile app targeting repetitive negative thought to prevent depression in university students: study protocol of the Nurture-U Reducing Worry prevention trial. BMC psychiatry, 24(1), 649.