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Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education SIG presence and events at the BERA Annual Conference 2019

We will be running three individual paper sessions with three papers in each, three symposia and one panel session. We will also be holding our first SIG Forum Meeting.

Tuesday 10th September 

1:40 – 3.10 p.m., Room 5.210
Symposium: Teacher resilience: whose responsibility?
Chair: Steph Ainsworth
Presenters: Josie Maitland, University of Brighton, UK; Steph Ainsworth and Jeremy Oldfield, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Joanna McIntyre and Stefanie Sullivan, University of Nottingham, UK; Susan Beltman and Emily Poulton, Curtin University, Australia.

15:50 – 17:20 p.m., Room 5.210
Paper session: Building resilience and fostering connectedness in education settings
Chair(s): Irene García-Moya
15:50 Reconceptualising Resilience: A Dynamic Interactive Model of Resilience for Educational Practice
Richard Millican; Adeela Ahmed-Shafi; Paul Vare; Tristan Middleton; Sian Templeton
University of Gloucestershire, UK
16:20 Schools as sites of identity formation: Exploring personal and organisational understandings of self
Annie Gowing, University of Melbourne, Australia
16:50 A new measure for the assessment of connectedness with teachers in adolescence
Irene García-Moya1; Carmen Moreno1; Fiona Brooks2, 1Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; 2University of Hertfordshire; University of Technology Sydney;, Australia

 Wednesday 11th September

 9-10.30 a.m., Room 5.210
Symposium
Mental Health Wellbeing and Education SIG symposium. Promoting wellbeing and resilience among children and young people: concepts and intervention outcomes
Chairs: Lydia Lewis and Andy Aston, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Presenters: Professor Michael Jopling, University of Wolverhampton, UK; Dr Michelle Jayman, University of West London, UK; and Babatunde Ojewunmi, University of Cambridge, UK

12:10 – 13:40p.m., Room 5.210
Paper session: School-based interventions to promote and support mental health and wellbeing
Chair(s): Anthea Rose
12:10 The complexities of policy landscape, psychosocial well-being and academic achievement of young unaccompanied refugees in the UK 4368184
Harsha Wilkinson, Independent Researcher, UK
12:40 Improving student mental health in secondary schools through the use of peer mentors in physical activity
Anthea Rose; Jonathan Glazzard, Leeds Beckett University, UK
13:10 Mental health interventions in schools: Clinical discourse and the denial of affect
Tom Billington; Sarah Gibson; Jamal Lahmar; Penny Fogg, University of Sheffield, UK

16:00 – 17:30 p.m., Room 5.210
Mental health and wellbeing in schools: Impact on pupil and teacher experiences and performance
Chair(s): Jonathan Glazzard
16:00 The impact of mental health and wellbeing on GCSE performance in England: a longitudinal analysis of the National Pupil Database linked to Understanding Society
Lydia Marshall; Rukmen Sehmi; Muslihah Albakri; Neil Smith NatCen Social Research, UK
16:30 The impact of teacher mental health and wellbeing on pupil progress: from the pupils’ perspective
Jonathan Glazzard; Anthea Rose, Leeds Beckett University, UK
17:00 Language Games, Agency and Teacher Stress: What can we learn from teachers’ accounts of their everyday experiences?
Liz Beastall, Leeds Beckett University, UK

2:00-2:45pm, Room 5.210.
SIG Forum meeting
We welcome members’ views on developing the SIG’s programme of work.

Thursday 12th September

09:00 – 10:30, Room 5.210
Symposium: Developing accessible mental health and wellbeing services that meet the needs of students in Higher Education
Chair(s): Terry Hanley
Developing accessible mental health and wellbeing services that meet the needs of students in Higher Education
Terry Hanley1; Aaron Sefi2; Claire Wyatt1; Soha Daru1; Rebecca Crook1; Sukriti Kainth1, 1University of Manchester, UK; 2Xenzone Ltd, UK

12.10-1.10 p.m., Room 5.210
Panel Discussion
Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’: Exploring the pivotal role of schools and colleges in promoting and supporting mental wellbeing
Chair: Michelle Jayman
Panel: Michelle Jayman,University of West London, UK; Josie Maitland, University of Brighton, UK; Suzanne Culshaw, niversity of Hertfordshire, UK; Anthea Rose, Leeds Beckett University, UK; Lydia Lewis, University of Wolverhampton, UK.