School Wellbeing Policies and their Impact

Webinars:

Health priorities for schools: what can we learn from current research?

This webinar was held in March 2015 and was presented by Dr Beki Langford, Bristol University.

Developing an Evidence Based Network of Healthy School Schemes

This webinar was held in January 2016 and was presented by Professor Simon Murphy, Cardiff University, and Dr Julie Bishop, Public Health Wales

How have we have been using the data from your student survey/school environment questionnaire? Feedback from research studies

This webinar was held in November 2016 and was presented by Dr Britt Hallingberg, Dr Kelly Morgan and Elen de Lacy, Cardiff University

Using your student health and wellbeing report: sharing tips and ideas

This webinar was held in April 2017 and was presented by Hannah Littlecott and Dr Graham Moore, Cardiff University

School composition, school culture and inequalities in young people’s health

This webinar was held in November 2017 and was presented by Dr Graham Moore, Cardiff University

Health Improvement and Educational Attainment in Secondary Schools – Complimentary or Competing Priorities? Making the Most of Your Student Health and Wellbeing Reports

This webinar was held in March 2018 and was presented by Dr Hannah Littlecott, Dr Sara Long, and Dr Gillian Hewitt, Cardiff University

The Importance of Relationships to Staff and Student Health: Building Theory from the WISE Trial

This webinar was held in November 2018 and was presented by Dr Rhiannon Evans and Dr Jill Grey, Cardiff University

Student Health and Wellbeing: The Role of Support Staff Alongside Teaching Staff in Schools

This webinar was held in February 2019 and was presented by Dr Hannah Littlecott, Cardiff University

Making the Most of the Student Health and Wellbeing Reports in your School

This webinar was held in July 2019 and was presented by Joan Roberts, Cardiff University

Please note that there are a number of other Webinars available on specific areas of school policy. These are available on our other pages:
Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Risk Behaviours
Food, Fitness and Physical Activity
Sex and Relationships

Research Briefings:

These are short, school-friendly summaries of research studies that have been completed using SHRN data. Full papers for the studies are linked to below under ‘Research Papers’

The role of school support staff in student health and wellbeing

Health and Educational Attainment: Complementary or Competing School Priorities?

School composition, school culture and inequalities in young people’s health

School commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities

School Practices Important for Young People’s Sexual Health

Adolescent self-harm prevention and intervention in secondary schools

School smoking policies and student use of tobacco, e-cigarettes and cannabis

Research Papers:

Moore G F, Littlecott H J, Fletcher A, Hewitt G, Murphy S
Variations in schools’ commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities: a cross-sectional study of secondary schools in Wales
BMC Public Health

Moore G, Littlecott H, Evans R, Murphy S, Hewitt G, Fletcher A
School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people’s health: Multi-level analysis of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Wales
British Educational Research Journal

Long S, Littlecott H, Eccles G Fletcher A, Hawkins J, Hewitt G, Murphy S, Moore G
Testing the zero-sum games hypothesis: An examination of school health policy and practice inequalities in educational outcomes (abstract)
The Lancet

Littlecott H, Moore G, Murphy S
Student health and well-being in secondary schools: the role of school support staff alongside teaching staff
Pastoral Care in Education

Hewitt G, Roberts J, Fletcher A, Moore G, Murphy S
Improving young people’s health and well-being through a school health research network: Reflections on school-researcher engagement at the national level 
Research for All

Littlecott H, Long S, Hawkins J, Murphy S, Hewitt G, Eccles G, Fletcher A, Moore G
Health improvement and educational attainment in secondary schools: complementary or competing policies? Exploratory analyses from the School Health Research Network in Wales
Health Education & Behaviour

Littlecott H, Moore G, Gallagher H, Murphy S
From complex interventions to complex systems: using social network analysis to understand school engagement with health and wellbeing
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Long S, Littlecott H, Hawkins J, Eccles G, Fletcher A, Hewitt G, Murphy S, Moore G
Testing the “Zero‐Sum Game” Hypothesis: An Examination of School Health Policies and Practices and Inequalities in Educational Outcomes
Journal of School Health

Young H, Long S, Hallingberg B, Fletcher A, Hewitt G, Murphy S, Moore G
School practices important for students’ sexual health: Analysis of the School Health Research Network survey in Wales
European Journal of Public Health

Evans R, Parker R, Russell A, Mathews F, Ford T, Hewitt G, Scourfield J, Janssens A
Adolescent self‐harm prevention and intervention in secondary schools: a survey of staff in England and Wales
Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Hallingberg B, Fletcher A, Murphy S, Morgan K, Littlecott H J, Roberts J, Moore G F
Do stronger school smoking policies make a difference? Analysis of the health behaviour in school-aged children survey
The European Journal of Public Health