• How can we promote resilience and wellbeing among our workforce cost-effectively?
Background
We need further evidence to ensure that we have people across all our sectors with the best possible knowledge, skills, and experience, and who are motivated, inspired and enabled to deliver our Opportunity Mission. This includes ensuring we understand how and when specialists are best deployed, and supporting all of our workforces to use the best available evidence in their work. (For brevity, please read all references to children as encompassing both children and young people where appropriate).
Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest
Next steps
Get in touch with research.engagement@education.gov.uk
Topics
Related UKRI funded projects
-
Decentring the 'resilient teacher': exploring interactions between individuals and their social ecologies
There is currently a teacher retention crisis in the UK and beyond. One in five teachers in the UK plan to leave teaching within the next five years and a third of teachers report experiencing a mental health issue. Worr...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
This project specifically focuses on promoting teacher resilience, which is directly related to promoting resilience and wellbeing among the workforce.
-
Understanding Children's Lives and Outcomes
Understanding Children's Lives and Outcomes, led by Morag Treanor and Fiona Mitchell, will provide new insights to help better understand and deliver the best possible outcomes for children, utilising existing datasets n...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
While this project focuses on understanding children's lives and outcomes, it indirectly relates to promoting resilience and wellbeing among the workforce by providing insights into factors affecting children's lives.
-
Exploring whole-system intervention to improve mental health and wellbeing through schools.
The integration of health and education policy and practice, with a specific focus on the role of schools in mental health education and preventative intervention, is of major topical concern. There is strong support in ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
This project explores whole-system intervention to improve mental health through schools, which can contribute to promoting resilience and wellbeing among the workforce indirectly.