UNSW PVC Education & Student Experience Resources
- Wellbeing: Student Wellbeing and Health
- Education: Support to Improve Academic Performance
- Student Experience: Careers & Employability
UNSW Scientia Education Academy Lecture Series with HUI
The Care Factor: Foundations and practice of supporting student success and wellbeing (April 2021)
Presenters: Professor Nalini Pather, Professor Jacquelyn Cranney, Dr Leesa Sidhu and Professor Gary Velan
Supporting students who are outside their comfort zone (November 2020)
Presented by Dr Leesa Sidhu
Why should self-management, success and wellbeing be a curricular concern in the higher education context?
Presented by Professor Jacquelyn Cranney
You can view this lecture via UNSW theBox
Past UNSW and External HUI Training Workshops, Meetings and Presentations
- Recording of Curricular Approaches to Student Success & Wellbeing: Why & How (17 February 2022, Massey University; Reference to 2021 Pastoral Care Code)
- Recording of Practical curricular approaches to supporting student success & wellbeing (21 February 2021, UNSW staff only)
- Recording of integrating Tools for the Self-Management Moodle Resource into Courses (30 April 2020, UNSW staff only)
- Course Coordinator Workshop run by UNSW Healthy University and Science. Training resources now updated as above (30 January 2020)
- Connections Seminar: Healthy Universities: Embedding student self-management, success and wellbeing into courses (18 September 2019, UNSW staff only).
- Meeting summary (22 February 2019). In this meeting, we identified University staff who are interested in contributing and leading pilot projects focused on these themes
- Connections Seminar: Student Self-management, success and wellbeing – Curricular approaches (7 February 2019, UNSW staff only)
Other UNSW Resources
- Consult the Healthy Universities Course Coordinator Manual (last updated: 24 April 2020) on how you can use it for your course
- Read the book The Rubber Brain: A Toolkit for Optimising Your Study, Work and Life. By UNSW authors Sue Morris, Jacquelyn Cranney, Peter Baldwin, Leigh Mellish, Annette Krochmalik
- For UNSW Staff (eg Program Directors looking for a stand-alone course on the science of wellbeing to recommend/require for their students), refer to PSYC1062 and PSYC1031 and see past course outlines and current/ future term offerings or watch this video that describes these courses for Program Directors and students.
- Universal Design for Learning
External Resources
- Supporting Students’ (and Educators’) Wellbeing
- University Student - Success, Resilience and Wellbeing
- The Fridge - Self-management resources for students, that educators may wish to refer to
- Needed Now – Wellbeing No Longer Under the Radar
- UK Universities - Step change: Mentally Healthy Universities
- UK Student Minds University Mental Health Charter
- Orygen University Mental Health Framework
- UK academic’s Mental Health Posters which now have Australian contact numbers provided by Alanya Drummond (UNSW staff only). Original source: Dr Zoe J Ayres
Bibliography, Specific References
- University Student and Educator Psychological Wellbeing, and Pandemic Impacts: Bibliography by Scientia Education Academy Healthy Universities Initiative and the Student Wellbeing Community of Practice (2021)
- Curricular approaches to student academic success and wellbeing: The UNSW Healthy Universities Initiative case study by Cranney, J., Pather, N., Sidhu, L., & Velan, G. (preprint 2023)
- Members experience during the pandemic by Abbott, J., Bancroft, H., Murray, L. (2020). InPsych: The Bulletin of the Australian Psychological Society Ltd. August/September, 44-49
- Student Wellbeing Survey 2013 – Basic Data Report by the Student Safety and Wellbeing Committee, UNSW (2014)
- Embedding mental wellbeing in the curriculum - learning from each other by Joan O’ Mahony and Sally Bradley, in association with project leads from the international MWBC collaboration (2021)
- Global Student Mental Wellbeing Collaborative Project 2020: Embedding mental wellbeing in the curriculum by Professor Sally Bradley, January 2021