Network Activities

We’re delighted to announce the partnership between Health Education and EERA’s Health and Wellbeing Education Network.

The Health and Wellbeing network will produce one special issue a year in partnership with the journal Health Education.

Please do take a look at the most recent special issue from this partnership:

Health Education's response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Global challenges and future directions

We have ongoing collaboration with the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) Network Foundation.

Many Network 8 members participate with the SHE Research Group and collaborate on publications, in the SHE academy and other activities bridging research and practice. Examples of recent/in press articles include: Sormunen M, Lattke L, Leksy K, Dadaczynski K, Sakellari E, Velasco V, Borzucka-Sitkiewicz K, Miranda-Velasco M, Rabaglietti E, Rosario R. 2022. Health promoting schools and COVID-19: Challenges and strengths. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 50:655-659. doi:10.1177/14034948221091155 Rouvinen H, Turunen H, Lindfors P, Kinnunen J, Rimpelä A, Koivusilta L, Kulmala M, Dadaczynski K, Okan O, Sormunen M. Online health information-seeking behaviour and its association with mental well-being among higher education students – Findings from Finland during the COVID-19. Health Promotion International. Accepted for publication 10/2023. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daad143

Network 8 has an existing partnership with Emerald Journal Health Education. Health Education partnership with EERA’s Health and Wellbeing Education Network | Emerald Publishing (emeraldgrouppublishing.com)

In the past year we contributed the following: 2022 Special Issue: Leadership in school health promotion (Guest Editors: Kevin Dadaczynski, Monica Carlsson, Qing Gu). Health Education: Vol. 122 Iss. 3 | Emerald Insight Open special issue, Social justice, equity, and agency: global challenges linking health, wellbeing and sustainability education (Guest editors: Monica Carlsson, Irene Torres, Martin Mickelsson) Closes Nov 21st Social justice, equity, and agency: global challenges linking health, wellbeing and sustainability education | Emerald Publishing (emeraldgrouppublishing.com)

A proposed special issue, Conceptual and Methodological Problems in the field of wellbeing education, could not proceed due to insufficient submissions.

We held a book launch to mark the publication of Network 8 book, ‘Wellbeing and schooling: Cross cultural and cross disciplinary perspectives’ (June 21st 2022, in association with University of Edinburgh). This text forms part of the EERA book series ‘Transdisciplinary perspectives in educational research’. Many Network 8 members, including the editors and several chapter authors participated in the event.

Proposal for workshop at ECER 2024 focused on diversity, power & privilege in Health and Wellbeing Education. We also plan to apply for network funding to facilitate and sustain new and existing collaborations in the field of health and wellbeing education.