All mainstream, state maintained secondary schools, with some independent schools, are members.

Schools are provided with tailored Student Health and Wellbeing Reports, benchmarked against national data. These are used by school planning groups (senior management teams, parents, student voice) for health action planning and monitoring and evaluation of the health and wellbeing curriculum and whole school approaches.

Activities and resources provided for schools focus on sharing practice in using this data and the research evidence that emerges from it:

-National school events are offered every summer to facilitate shared learning on  data use.

-Student engagement events encourage student voice input at a school and Network level, with DECIPHer’s young people’s group ALPHA supporting their development.

–Webinars are broadcast to allow findings from SHRN research to be shared and  discussed with schools and those who  support schools across Wales.

–Research briefs distil the findings of SHRN research outputs into easily digested short reports, which are circulated to schools and policy and practice partners for knowledge translation and continuous school health system improvement.

-A termly newsletter is circulated to all member schools and key stakeholders to encapsulate this learning and to alert schools to opportunities to be involved in Network research projects.

A number of research publications have been produced based on the information from SHRN reports. You can find a full list of our publications here.

In order to help promote collaboration, SHRN has adopted various studies within and outside of the DECIPHer Centre. The benefits of having a study adopted include:

-Support from SHRN researchers and schools in developing studies;

-Support with incorporating public involvement and knowledge exchange into your research;

-Access to a network of research ready schools with a pre existing data infrastructure (baseline, school context and follow up data);

-Support with school recruitment;

-Opportunities to collaborate and share knowledge with our network of policy, practice and academic partners to promote impact;

-Use of Network logo and branding on project outputs and publicity materials.

-The Network ensures that the research is of relevance to stakeholders so that subsequent research evidence has a higher likelihood of influencing policy and practice for population health impacts. SHRN adopted studies have a value of over £25 million. 

A full list of our adopted studies can be found here.

Click here to find out what SHRN means to our members and partners.