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Ed Watkins

Film writer

Jun 9, 2026

10:15
So how do we scale what works without turning everything into a clinical intervention? And how do we make this easy enough that universities will
10:23
actually do it? We expected that giving students a course about mental health literacy, so teaching them how to identify what is or isn't a disorder and explain what stress is and how to manage stress and where to go to get help if they think their stress is more than normal.
10:37
So those are the core parts of it, which relate to what Jane's talking about, I think.
10:40
We would expect that that would improve knowledge and improve understanding.
10:45
I guess the surprise was it was actually stopping students getting more anxious and depressed over the course of a term, which is great.
10:51
So what would help it to roll out? I think we can make it as easy as possible.
10:55
And this is sort of to Steve's point earlier, integrate to an existing system.
14:47
It's very much a kind of extra add-on to what happens to you whilst you're at university so of course you're navigating through all these various streams of maybe starting from scratch in a brand new place not knowing anyone or maybe staying at home and just coming in but kind of expanding your mindset or having to work so many hours a week in order to pay bills and things we do need to make sure that we're training staff as well as students

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