SoSS Research Festival: Panel discussion

Date: 5 October 2022
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: Online

Developing future-ready graduates: What role can academic staff play?

Higher education is starting to embrace its role in promoting student wellbeing and life skills, especially given the concerning levels of poor mental health and uncertainties in the future job market. This panel discussion considers different perspectives on the role of academic staff in this new era, and highlights diverse opportunities for collaboration.

Panel chair: Professor Deborah Hall, Professor of Positive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia.


School of Social Sciences (SoSS) Research Festival
The aim of SoSS Research Festival events is to raise the profile of all research being carried out within SoSS, showing the depth and breadth of research activities and the hard work and achievements of the whole school. Events are organised around our four research themes throughout September-December 2022.

Please check out the website for information regarding events and videos of our research: https://sossresearchfestival.site.hw.ac.uk/

Organiser: Dr Mary Stewart, Psychology, Heriot-Watt University (m.e.stewart@hw.ac.uk)