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Many students are motivated to go to university for reasons associated with better employment outcomes after graduation, and are required to take greater ownership of their own future careers (with the support of HEIs) by engaging in various employability and work-related KE activities (including volunteering and credit bearing placement and other work-related learning opportunities).

Tackling the Blues was designed to be a personally transformative experience for students which enhanced their likelihood of securing highly skilled work, improving their graduate level employability skills and experiences, and supporting their wider health and wellbeing through engagement in KE.

Students were able to undertake a paid Lead Mentor role, act as project volunteer (including for a credit bearing placement), or engage in the project indirectly through project-specific training or events held in person on campus or virtually across the two years.

The research involved in Tackling the Blues

Student’s involvement in research

Why did you join the programme?

We ask our student Tackling the Blues Mentors questions about their experience on the programme.

Why should I join Tackling the Blues?

We ask our student Tackling the Blues Mentors questions about their experience on the programme.

Tackling the Blues

Tackling the Blues, an award-winning sport and arts-based education programme targeting young people aged 6-16 who are experiencing, or are at risk of, developing mental illness.