Public and Occupational Health Approaches to Mental Health:Reflections from the ScotSMART Scoping Literature Review and Implications for Trauma Informed Pedagogical Practice

The Scottish Student Mental Health Research Network (ScotSMART) is a research network for student mental health in Scotland. It seeks to bring together academics, professional services, practitioners, and other student mental health research stakeholders to address a broad range of topics and facilitate knowledge exchange across the Scottish Higher Education sector, covering themes including mental health, stigma around mental health, identity, loneliness, and social relationships. Based at the University of Edinburgh, the network includes researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde, as well as a professional and a student advisory group. At the end of 2023, the ScotSMART team undertook a scoping literature review to better understand the state of knowledge around Public Health, Occupational Health and other holistic approaches to mental health in Higher Education. This poster presents key findings from this study as part of a wider reflection on how pedagogical practice can become more trauma-informed.<br/>