The Teacher Connectedness Project

This project studies wellbeing in the schools with an emphasis on student-teacher relationships and their importance for wellbeing for secondary school students. The project website includes a description of the project and its aims. From the project were produced a briefing for teachers, and a brief paper about students’ and teachers’ views about PSHE education.

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Further publications linked to this project in scientific journals include:

• Subjective well-being in adolescence and teacher connectedness. A health asset analysis

• School-level factors associated with teacher connectedness: A multilevel analysis of the structural and relational school determinants of young people’s health

• The conceptualization of school and teacher connectedness in adolescent research: A scoping review of literature

Health Behaviour in School Aged Children

Research into children’s health and health behaviours and the factors influencing them is essential for the development of effective health education and health promotion policy.

Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) is a WHO study carried out in a large number of countries in Europe and North America. It aims to gain new insight into adolescent health behaviours, health and lifestyles in their social context.

HBSC represents the longest running international study that focuses on the health behaviour and social context of young people. The study was initiated in 1982 by researchers from three countries and shortly afterwards the project was adopted by the World Health Organization as a WHO collaborative study. There are now 43 participating countries and regions. England has been represented in the past three survey cycles (since 1997). You can find a link to the HBSC England webpage here.

Bullying and Young People

Kayleigh Chester from the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care is a research assistant and is studying for a PhD in adolescent and child health. Kayleigh has published the following articles about the impact of bullying.

Chester, K. (2018). Bullying isn’t just verbal or physical – it can also be social, and this can have the worst effects. The Conversation.

Chester, K. (2017). Schools need to wake up to relational bullying. Schools Week.