An audio blog reflecting on student mental health over the course of a final year project
I run a seminar group of 3rd year students working on their Final Major Project for BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. We meet once a week over the course of the final year.
Here is my audio blog about my recent experience working with students who are struggling with mental health problems.
This recording leads straight on to the next clip below.
After recording the first two sections I’ve added a final section reflecting on how what I’ve learned on the PgCert has informed my feelings about student assessment. Particularly important has been Dr Maha Bali’s keynote address in the ‘Belonging in assessment’ symposium.
Finally I feel very strongly that all staff should be receiving mental health training so that we have some of the basic tools that we need to help our students, particularly when they are sharing details of traumatic events in one-to-ones.