Webinar: ResLife and Student Wellbeing - A Glimpse Into The Future by Kinetic

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About this Webinar

Demand for student support services has increased by 81% in the last 5 years. With over a quarter of UK students (37%) experiencing their state of mental wellbeing changing for the worse since starting higher education. In addition to this, the true impact of the pandemic on student mental health is still to be seen.

With accommodation and residential life being the most influential factors when it comes to student wellbeing, your teams need to be equipped to assist your students in the best way possible. It's time to share some best practices on this!

We're excited to invite you to this interactive student wellbeing and support LIVE panel discussion.

Agenda

What has changed over the last 12 months and how the coming academic year will differ to previous years.
How ResLife, Student Accommodation, and Student Support teams have adapted to the new reality and what changes they made to their operations.
What would be a game changer to support the ResLife teams from the wellbeing management perspective.
How ResLife events have adapted to the changes and whether they will become more important than ever before.
How the pandemic has impacted interactions between departments and staff from an incident management and wellbeing perspective.
What is the best way to structure the ResLife teams to deliver the best services to the students.

Presenters

Dan Lister

Student Life Manager, Kinetic

Dan is extremely passionate about helping universities and PBSA providers manage their student wellbeing. Since joining Kinetic in early 2020, Dan has created amazing relationships with many professionals within the HE sector. He's on a mission to change the status quo, and Student Life is a perfect solution to achieve just that.

Fiona Hassett

Community Support and Wellbeing Co-ordinator, Staffordshire University

Fiona has worked with Residential Services at Staffordshire University since November 2020. She was employed as a “Community Support and well-being coordinator” out of hours. Fiona has been supporting students within accommodation who have experience low mental health. She has also provided support to members of flats where concerns have been raised and ensured that students are referred to other services within the University for ongoing help and support.

Guy Gibson

Residential Experience Manager, University of Nottingham

Guy has 20 years’ experience working in Higher Education previously with Staffordshire University as Business Incubation Manager, with University of Derby as Deputy Director & Head of Operations for Student Living, and currently with University of Nottingham as Residential Experience Manager. University of Nottingham are transitioning from a warden and tutor model to a professional Residential Experience model for 2021/22 and Guy has come on board to as part of this new team to help develop a supportive community where students can settle and thrive at University and beyond.

Clodagh Scott

Residential Services Manager, Ulster University

My name is Clodagh Scott and I am the ResLife Manager at Ulster University. I have over twenty years experience in student accommodation and have seen many changes. When I first started working in student accommodation the role focused on allocations, rent collection and the pastoral care role was managed by the wardens – academic members of staff.
Things have changed and the ResLife team are involved in actively developing the student community encouraging a high level of resident participation in events and being very cognisant of student wellbeing and promotion of good mental health.

Deborah Healy

Head of Residential Services, Staffordshire University

Deb has over 15 years working within the education sector, both in FE and HE. Deb has worked as a lecturer for a large part of her career and then transitioned across to work within Residential Services in 2018. She worked for Warwickshire College as “Manager of residential Services” and is now employed at Staffordshire University as “Head of Residential Services”. Deb is very motivated and enthusiastic about providing support to Residential Services and having been through a recent restructure of the service can offer some insight into how support for students is changing and adapting, and how this has worked with the use of Student Life as the primary central point of information across services.