BeeWell: Making young people's wellbeing everyone's business

DISN Research Seminar with Professor Neil Humphrey, University of Manchester

#BeeWell is a programme that aims to make the wellbeing of young people everybody’s business. A central component of this is the #BeeWell survey, which is being completed annually by pupils in secondary schools across Greater Manchester (GM). The survey focuses on domains of wellbeing (e.g. life satisfaction, optimism) and drivers of wellbeing (e.g. physical activity, bullying). To date, approximately 60,000 young people from more than 160 secondary schools across all 10 Local Authorities in GM have completed surveys.

The results are helping us to better understand the development and drivers of young people’s wellbeing, and the data generated is informing work in different parts of the GM system (e.g. integrated health, care, education and voluntary, community and social enterprise infrastructure). The aim is to provide new and improved ways to support young people, creating the best conditions for them to thrive in every community, regardless of their background. In this seminar, I will provide an overview of the #BeeWell programme, including some key findings and their impact in different parts of the GM system. 

Biography

Neil Humphrey is the Sarah Fielden Chair in Psychology of Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on what we mean by wellbeing, why wellbeing matters, what matters for wellbeing, and what works for wellbeing, in children and young people. When he is not working at the University, Neil moonlights as an unpaid taxi driver for his three daughters.  

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