The projects involve mapping psychosocial support services, conducting a needs assessment, investigating the underlying causes, developing and evaluating interventions, and, in particular, transferring and implementing the findings regarding the mental health of students and PhD students.
Hochschule Bochum
MUTSPRUNG
MUTSPRUNG brings together universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the Doctoral School NRW to conduct academic research on the mental health of students and PhD students, focusing on individual and structural factors, vulnerable phases during their studies, as well as existing barriers to and opportunities for participation.
The research project HoBeFo examines counselling services and structures for neurodivergent and psychologically impaired students across the student life cycle, aiming to develop more tailored counselling and support services and structures together with actors within and outside higher education.
StaR_MHI is a three-part collaborative project within the expert network of the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), the University Hospital Halle, the Leibniz Institute of Resilience Research (LIR), the German Youth Institute (DJI), the LMU University Hospital München, the Charité University Hospital Berlin, the University Hospital Jena, the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), the Institute of Psychology and the Student Health Management of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg that aims to identify predictors of students’ mental health, validate them through high-frequency longitudinal analyses, and adapt and further develop suitable interdisciplinary intervention platforms for support and guidance.
The CAMPUS framework developed from the project will include suitable recommendations for universities, based on a systematic investigation of risk and resilience factors at both the individual level and the structural institutional level of higher education.
PsychKOMPASS analyzes psychosocial counseling services for students nationwide, identifies needs and barriers, and, based on this analysis, develops evidence-based, practical recommendations for the sustainable improvement of services at universities and student services organizations.
UNIFY researches and promotes student mental health at three university campuses using a mixed-methods approach to establish evidence-based, scalable interventions and foster sustainable cultural change in higher education institutions.
HoPsy taps into analytical potential at the interdisciplinary interface of higher education research and health science and strengthens the possibility of evidence-based control by universities for the health-sensitive further development of higher education structures by providing more differentiated findings on the simultaneous influence of individual and institutional determinants.
