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Thank you to the 12 students who attended our student advisory group termly catch up!
You can download the slides here:
Watch our video summary, or read more below..
We started with a quick refresh of the different parts of Nurture-U
Compassionate campus: collecting student stories of experiences at University. Find out more about the work going on at the University of Exeter here. There is also an anthropological study going on at King's College London - watch this space for more information!
Mental Health Literacy: this is being trialled at Newcastle University, with great results. Find out more about the course here!
Wellbeing Toolkit: 15 advisors have signed up to test the toolkit and provide feedback in a group discussion in mid April, email nurture-u@exeter.ac.uk if you'd like to be part of this! You can sign up to use the toolkit here.
Survey - we're about to launch the Spring 2024 follow up survey, inviting all students who have taken part before to tell us how they feel 6 months later.
Trials - we're still trying to get as many students as possible to help test our app and different types of online therapy!
Discussion topics:
Survey:
Students helped us with how we can get people to answer the questions in the follow up survey. Here are the feedback points:
Key words ‘win’ and ‘£200’ in bold
Remind people why we’re doing the research – what the outcomes will be
Tell people how the survey will improve the research and hence improve student experience in the future
Have payments for everyone (unfortunately we can't do this in the budget!)
Make the survey shorter, have the key questions at the start
Research trials advert:
Our old advert needs updating - needs to be shorter and more engaging. The group came up with the following ideas:
Content:
Make the process of taking part as clear as possible – so specific benefit, specifically what we’re trying to help with, what will happen etc
Make a video with clips showing how you sign up – make it clear what will happen if you click
E.g. include the emails they will receive
Also useful to have an infographic post to show how it works?
Show different parts of the app, as you progress
Focus on the end results of taking part rather than the process
Not just student faces, have some greenery, some campus life
If lots of different students contributing to the same video, make sure they’re doing it in the same style
Language:
Scripts are robotic, but do need to include the right information
Emphasising “you”
Starting off with a question that grabs attention
People walking and talking around campus
Use hashtags
University Mental Health day
The group gave us different ideas on how to promote Nurture-U on University Mental Health Day (14th March 2024).
Exeter Forum stall (or similar space at other unis!) – hot drinks, food
Make reaction video – ‘how do you deal with stress?’ or ‘what are you stressed about right now?’
Need incentive to take part
Linking with societies
Networking session
Food / presenting and promoting the research
Cupcake decorating
Safe space to discuss what people are struggling with
(We love the idea of the networking/cupcake decorating session - thinking we're going to try it for World Mental Health Day in May!)
Last few updates:
The Newsletter is still going out monthly! Let us know if you'd like us to share anything in it, we have about 900 subscribers.
Our social media team is actively creating content! If you'd like to join let us know.
Sorry if there have been any delays to payments recently! The finance system is quite complicated here. Do get in touch if you think you're owed money and we'll look into it.
Next steps:
Ongoing social media meetings
Toolkit meeting in April
Next termly meeting will be after Easter - hopefully with survey results!