The impact of COVID-19 and distance learning on undergraduate students’ resilience and psycho-social wellbeing: A three-stage study to explore, implement, and evaluate effective strategies to build student community

Hilliard, Jake; Sedgewick, Felicity; Lythgoe, Antonia; Flothmann, Charlotte and Tran, Trang (2021). The impact of COVID-19 and distance learning on undergraduate students’ resilience and psycho-social wellbeing: A three-stage study to explore, implement, and evaluate effective strategies to build student community. In: SRHE Annual International Conference 2021 - (Re)connecting, (Re)building: Higher Education in Transformative Times, 6-10 Dec 2021, Online.

URL: https://srhe.ac.uk/conference-2021/

Abstract

This poster reports on a three-stage study currently being undertaken in the University of Bristol’s School of Education (SoE). Its primary purpose is to identify, implement, and evaluate a range of supportive strategies aimed at enhancing students’ community building, and/or mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19 and the transition to online learning. In stage one, online focus groups were completed with existing undergraduate students and recent graduates to explore changes in community cohesion as well as challenges to mental health and wellbeing during the shift to remote learning. In stage two, four key strategies that were identified in the stage one focus groups were implemented into two courses in the SoE for a 12-week period. In stage three, online interviews will be undertaken to understand the positives and negatives of each strategy, as well as how they contributed students’ sense of community, social support, and wellbeing. Going forward, it is hoped that transferrable strategies can be developed and used across faculties and universities.

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