Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff
This paper reports on the application of culture change methodology to co-design a whole-of-university health and wellbeing strategy. We outline considerations that necessitate a change in the way higher education contributes to student and staff mental health and wellbeing. We provide an overview o...
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Queensland University of Technology
2023-12-01
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| description | This paper reports on the application of culture change methodology to co-design a whole-of-university health and wellbeing strategy. We outline considerations that necessitate a change in the way higher education contributes to student and staff mental health and wellbeing. We provide an overview of an Appreciative Inquiry culture change methodology; a map of the process followed; the benefits of applying Appreciative Inquiry principles; and a description of outcomes, which include funding for a new health and wellbeing strategy implementation team. We argue that by co-designing a strategy, with representatives of the whole system taking a strengths-based perspective, we enabled self-determined change. We also argue that the process of co-designing and co-developing a strategy can be a wellbeing intervention in and of itself. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b12ad4c482c4c388b49e272f39d7e3e2023-12-11T23:34:26ZengQueensland University of TechnologyStudent Success2205-07952023-12-0114313614410.5204/ssj.27813104Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and StaffBerni Cooper0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1509-4594Nicole Border1Felicity Couperthwaite2Queensland University of TechnologyQueensland University of TechnologyQueensland University of TechnologyThis paper reports on the application of culture change methodology to co-design a whole-of-university health and wellbeing strategy. We outline considerations that necessitate a change in the way higher education contributes to student and staff mental health and wellbeing. We provide an overview of an Appreciative Inquiry culture change methodology; a map of the process followed; the benefits of applying Appreciative Inquiry principles; and a description of outcomes, which include funding for a new health and wellbeing strategy implementation team. We argue that by co-designing a strategy, with representatives of the whole system taking a strengths-based perspective, we enabled self-determined change. We also argue that the process of co-designing and co-developing a strategy can be a wellbeing intervention in and of itself.https://studentsuccessjournal.org/article/view/2781health and wellbeingappreciative inquirystrategy development |
| spellingShingle | Berni Cooper Nicole Border Felicity Couperthwaite Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff Student Success health and wellbeing appreciative inquiry strategy development |
| title | Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff |
| title_full | Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff |
| title_fullStr | Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff |
| title_full_unstemmed | Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff |
| title_short | Co-Creating a Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Students and Staff |
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| topic | health and wellbeing appreciative inquiry strategy development |
| url | https://studentsuccessjournal.org/article/view/2781 |
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