Ros McLellan and Catherine Fraser-Andrews March 2025 Introduction Given the well-documented concern about the poor state of children and young people’s wellbeing in England (Chollet et al., 2024), including reports of some of the lowest levels of child wellbeing across the world (UNICEF Innocenti, 2020), it is a welcome development to see The Children’s WellbeingContinue reading “Where’s the Wellbeing in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill?”
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Taking time to talk about teacher wellbeing
By Laura Oxley In a time when the teaching profession is experiencing a recruitment and retention crisis, improving our understanding of teacher wellbeing is an essential area of research. One of the key factors that has been identified as contributing to a decline in teacher wellbeing is intensification of workload and time pressure (Collie, 2023;Continue reading “Taking time to talk about teacher wellbeing”
End of Term Tidings
By Liz Fordham As the Michaelmas term draws to a close, Liz reminds us of the importance of attending to our own wellbeing, as well as to the wellbeing of others, over the Christmas holiday. ‘Love hunger’ at Christmas As I struggled through hoards of shoppers at a Christmas market recently, I was mindful ofContinue reading “End of Term Tidings”
Travels with my SIG…
By The Wellbeing and Inclusion Committee In Grame Greene’s novel Travels with My Aunt (Greene, 1977), the protagonist, Henry, lives in a suburban and predictable world. His encounter with his vivacious and counter-cultural Aunt Augusta, and their subsequent adventures together, expand Henry’s world immeasurably. Through his travels with his aunt, Henry recognises the prejudice andContinue reading “Travels with my SIG…”
Enough with the literature already!
David Baker, March 2024 There is a debate to be had about the role of literature in a research study of wellbeing. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, wellbeing is a live issue, with new literature appearing all the time, much of it containing new data. Secondly, it is a multifaceted phenomenon. I wouldContinue reading “Enough with the literature already!”
Wellbeing Interventions in Education: A Commentary
By Ioannis Katsantonis, PhD candidate, MPhil (Cambridge), B.Ed(Hons) Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Why does wellbeing matter? Although wellbeing means different things to different people, most educationalists have come to understand that students’ wellbeing is declining, both in the UK [1] and globally [2]. In the UK specifically, the Good Childhood Report [1] inContinue reading “Wellbeing Interventions in Education: A Commentary”
Michaelmas Term 2022 Welcome
Cambridge’s Special Interest Group for Wellbeing & Inclusion is excited to welcome you into the start of 2022 Michaelmas term! As we finalize our term card of events and talks for you, we wanted to kick off term with an introduction into the committee for this year as well as share our blog. The blogContinue reading “Michaelmas Term 2022 Welcome”
Evidence-based tips for fostering student wellbeing in schools
In the last decade, robust longitudinal research has shown that school-aged children’s wellbeing in the UK declines. This already observed declining trend has been amplified by the COVID-19 that brought tremendous changes to young people’s daily lives. Thus, it is our belief that teachers, school leaders, and professionals working with/in the education sector need to be aware of how to foster wellbeing in schools. The existing evidence on what works in improving students’ wellbeing in schools can be considered too complex. Therefore, we decided to write this blogpost to provide some evidence-based tips by consulting syntheses of the literature on wellbeing interventions.
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF WEMWBS
David Baker, BArch(Hons), PGCE, MPhil (Education Research) is a 2nd year PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. David describes himself as a complexity-sensitive, qualitative-focussed mixed methods researcher. He is currently carrying out a pilot study at a school in London to test out his methodologies and methods in preparation for aContinue reading “THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF WEMWBS”
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