1 Universities UK, ‘Minding our future: Starting a conversation about the support of student mental health’, May 2018, pp12-14.
2 In this brief, for the sake of readability, we have used ‘universities and colleges’, or sometimes simply ‘universities’, to refer to what our regulatory framework and other more formal documents call ‘higher education providers’.
3 Tinklin, T, S Riddell, and A Wilson, ‘Support for students with mental health difficulties in higher education: The students’ perspective’, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2005, pp495-499.
4 Universities UK, ‘#stepchange: Mental health in higher education’.
5 Institute for Employment Studies (IES), ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, October 2019, p99.
6 Office for National Statistics, ‘Measuring national well-being: Personal well-being in the UK, 2014 to 2015’.
7 Campbell, Denis, ‘UK students waiting up to three months for mental health care’, The Guardian, 16 September 2019.
8 NHS, ‘Mental health of children and young people, 2017: Trends and characteristics’, November 2018, p10.
9 NHS, ‘Mental Health of Children and Young People, 2017’, p9.
10 Poole, Rob, and Catherine Robinson, ‘Self-harm and suicide: Beyond good intentions’, University and College Counselling, 31 May 2019.
11 Mental Health Foundation, ‘Promoting student mental health’, Mental Health Foundation Updates, 2001, p1.
12 Office for National Statistics, ‘Estimating suicide among higher education students, England and Wales: experimental statistics’.
13 Universities UK, ‘Guidance for universities on preventing student suicides’, September 2018.
14 OfS, ‘University of the West of England: Implementing a strategic approach to mental wellbeing in higher education’.
15 IES, ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, p99.
16 IES, ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, p99.
17 OfS, ‘OfS Challenge Competition: Achieving a step change in mental health outcomes for all students’.
18 Tinklin, Riddell and Wilson, ‘Support for students with mental health difficulties in higher education’, pp495-512.
19 Crenshaw, Kimberle, ‘Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics,’ University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989, pp139-167.
20 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis: Students with reported mental health conditions’ (available on this page), November 2019, pp4-5.
21 Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), ‘The new realists: Unite Students insight report’, September 2019, p23.
22 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p4.
23 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p4. In future, for students reporting multiple impairments, the HESA data futures project will allow the OfS to collect data on the nature of these impairments if the student wishes to report them.
24 IPPR, ‘Not by degrees: Improving student mental health in the UK's universities’, September 2017, p43.
25 This dataset considers only UK-domiciled undergraduate students at English higher education providers.
26 OfS, ‘Equality and diversity’.
27 Wilson, Clare, and Laura A Cariola, ‘LGBTQI+ youth and mental health: A systematic review of qualitative research’, Adolescent Research Review, May 2019, pp1-25; Yusuf, Kehinde, and Joanne Kerr, ‘Mental health in children and young people’, British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, March 2018, p57.
28 NHS, ‘Adult psychiatric morbidity survey: Survey of mental health and wellbeing, England, 2014’, September 2016, p8.
29 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p5.
30 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p5.
31 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, pp 7, 9-10, 10.
32 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p7.
33 OfS, ‘Access and participation data analysis’, p11.
34 Memon, Anjum, and others, ‘Perceived barriers to accessing mental health services among black and minority ethnic communities: A qualitative study in Southeast England’, BMJ open, November 2016; Ellis, Eugene, and Niki Cooper, ‘Silenced: The black student experience’, Therapy Today, 31 December 2013.
35 Guiffrida, Douglas, and others, ‘Supporting black British university students: Understanding students' experiences with peers and academic staff’, University and College Counselling, 6 September 2018.
36 Stonewall, ‘LGBT in Britain: Health report’, November 2018, pp6-8; Smithies, Dom, and Nicola Byrom, ‘LGBTQ+ student mental health: The challenges and needs of gender, sexual and romantic minorities in higher education’, July 2018, pp10-11.
37 Swanbrow Becker, Marty, ‘Supporting transgender college students on university and college campuses’, University and College Counselling, 9 September 2019.
38 Smithies and Byrom, ‘LGBTQ+ Student Mental Health’, pp30-32.
39 Swanbrow Becker, ‘Supporting transgender college students on university and college campuses’.
40 Stonewall, ‘LGBT in Britain’, p8.
41 UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA), ‘Mental health and wellbeing of global access students’, December 2018.
42 UKCISA, ‘Reaching out to enhance the wellbeing of international students’ December 2017, p8.
43 OfS, ‘OfS Challenge Competition: Achieving a step change in mental health outcomes for all students’.
44 UKCISA, ‘“Bounce Back”: Increasing access for international students to student wellbeing services’, December 2017, p27; UKCISA, ‘Reaching out to enhance the wellbeing of international students’, p24.
45 ‘Equality Act 2010’.
46 Office of the Independent Adjudicator, ‘Annual report 2018', 2018, p22; Office of the Independent Adjudicator, ‘Annual report 2014’, 2014, p22.
47 IES, ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, p27.
48 Yokoyama, Erica, and Una Yates, ‘“Confusing and very difficult”: College suspension policies revealed’, Oxford Student, 18 February 2019; Musto Matilda, ‘Bristol’s extension rules exacerbate mental health issues’, Epigram, 1 April 2019; Barradale Greg, ‘‘White counsellors don’t understand’: Why BME students don’t get the help they need at uni’, The Tab, 11 September 2019.
49 LSE Students’ Union, ‘Mental health and wellbeing at LSE’, May 2019; Chester Students’ Union, ‘Wellbeing campaign report’, April 2018.
50 IES, ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, p40.
51 IES, ‘Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England’, p129.
52 Caleb, Ruth, ‘Student mental wellbeing: whose responsibility?’, University and College Counselling, 31 May 2015.
53 HEPI, ‘Student Academic Experience Survey 2019’, p48.
54 See OfS, ‘Mental health: What we’re doing’.