👉 Healthy Environments in Academic Research Teams Project Lead @UBC ✍️ Co-author #UniMentalHealthCharter 📣 HE Policy. Student Voice. Mental Health.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined September 2012
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Leigh Spanner retweeted
Welcome to Day Two of the Student Mental Health #SummerResearchInstitute! We started off our morning with a yoga session. Thank you to our friends at @UTM RAWC who have led some awesome wellness activities for our attendees!
ALT attendees sit and talk on yoga mats ahead of the start of a yoga session
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Always love seeing @StudentMindsOrg @Spaned talk about the UK’s #unimentalhealthcharter 🌟 even across the Atlantic @UofTInLight #summerresearchinstitute
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🌟The #UniMentalHealthCharter programme is now open for applications for 2022/23! 🌟
Want to join other universities committed to creating cultural change and be recognised for excellent practice? Explore how to apply today: ow.ly/Ze0H50IZpsS
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It is more important than ever that universities come together to make staff and student mental health a priority. We welcome the Minister's support for the #UniMentalHealthCharter in her letter to VCs. Together, we can shape a future in which everyone in HE can thrive 💪🧡
Supporting students’ mental health has never been more important. Today I thanked universities for everything they have done in this area, and urged them to sign up to @StudentMindsOrg’s University #MentalHealth Charter Programme as soon as possible: universitymentalhealthcharte…
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There’s no good student mental health without good staff mental health. That’s why it’s a key theme in the #UniMentalHealthCharter.
For university communities to thrive, good staff mental health and wellbeing is essential: ow.ly/ob8y50H1O6K
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It was excellent to meet some of our #UniMentalHealthCharter members yesterday in our first in-person event around good governance for support services! Thank you to everyone who came, shared and learned with us 🌟
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📽️Ahead of this week's #SpendingReview announcement, we're calling on @RishiSunak to prioritise the #MentalHealth of the next generation by funding early support hubs.
@YoungMindsUK @CYPMentalHealth @childrensociety @MindCharity @YouthAccess
centreformentalhealth.org.uk… #FundTheHubs
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🎉 We’re delighted to announce that we will still be here to support you with #StudentSpace thanks to continued funding from @officestudents and @HEFCW 🌟ow.ly/Imh050G5iuQ
Leigh Spanner retweeted
🎉We’re pleased to announce the arrival of our latest publication: Supporting Students with Eating Disorders
Explore the experiences of student with eating disorders at university and our recommendations to improve wellbeing: ow.ly/Bzwn50G5xLz
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After over a year of listening work, we are excited to share with you our latest report - University Mental Health: Life in a Pandemic🎉
Have a read of the full report and our recommendations for change👉 ow.ly/VTEt50FGr4m
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"Take the Charter, use the Charter, to influence your thinking and work in partnership collaboratively with staff and students to do the best that you possibly can"
Find out more about the new #UniMentalHealthCharter Programme on our website
👉ow.ly/FL2G50EADud
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We've been commissioned by @StudentMindsOrg to design an impact evaluation framework for the new #UniMentalHealthCharter Programme. Find out more here: ow.ly/X6dt50EABR5
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Are you passionate about youth mental health? Interested in research?
I'm looking for a coordinator to help me run @NetworkSmarten. Our aim: connecting researchers, students & service providers to support better research into student mental health
jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/015…
Leigh Spanner retweeted
We have signed an open letter alongside 18 other organisations, asking Matt Hancock to put mental health at the heart of future public health strategy and action 👇
📢Along with the leaders of 18 mental health charities & social enterprises, we are asking Matt Hancock to be the first Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to put mental health at the heart of future public health strategy and action in England👇mentalhealth.org.uk/news/fut…
Leigh Spanner retweeted
Today on #InternationalMensDay the first fewepisodes of @ChangingMENpod are out NOW 🎙️
This is a project created for male students, by male students, in partnership with @comicrelief to eliminate stigma & raise awareness around men’s mental health buzzsprout.com/1468954
Leigh Spanner retweeted
At Student Minds we were shocked by the new student measures recently implemented #studentlockdown.
Any measures need to be fair, non-discriminatory, and proportionate, with the mental health of our uni communities considered at every step of the process. We recommend:
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Only a couple of days until #BlackInMentalHealthWeek begins!!!! 🎉 & we're so excited!! 😍 On 9/20 we'll be starting off with a roll call so we can meet eachother 👋🏾 We want to hear from all Black folks who live, work, study, or research mental health across the world 🙏🏾🌍
⏰THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!⏰ ONE week left before #BlackInMentalHealthWeek! 👇🏾Check out the descriptions for each day & our new shorter hashtags! 😁We're excited to amplify #BlackInMH voices & we have some cool events planned that we'll share closer to the week. 🎉Stay tuned!
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What's your big tip for pastoral care in the blended context? Anyone doing anything interesting with their personal tutoring, learning community, or pastoral engagements next year?
@santanuvasant @hintondm @LezleeJayne @KamMilz @suebecks @hmchilvers @it_se @DrHelenNichols
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📢 We are proud to be part of a major coalition that has written to @BorisJohnson. We’re calling on the government to work with us to establish a Mental Health Renewal plan in response to #COVID19.
Let's create a #MentallyHealthy society together: ow.ly/x8ll30qVPQs
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#SustainableHE thread 👇🏻
Enjoying @StudentMindsOrg #Webinar on planning for a sustainable future for #UniversityMentalHealth
Good points from @it_se @amosshe_uk Jayne Aldridge.
Great that #EQIA highlighted. #InclusionMatters