The School Health Research Network (SHRN)
The School Health Research Network (SHRN) is a policy-practice-research partnership between Welsh Government, Public Health Wales, and Cardiff University established in 2013. SHRN aims to improve young people’s health and well-being in Wales by working with schools in both primary and secondary education to generate and use good quality evidence for health improvement. This includes student and school-level surveys, capturing key health and well-being metrics.
SHRN aims to improve young people’s health and well-being by:
Providing robust health and well-being data to schools and national/regional stakeholders:
Generating new research evidence on how best to improve young people’s health and well-being in the school setting.
Enabling joined up action planning, evaluation, and feedback across primary and secondary education.
Working with policymakers and practitioners from education and health to co-produce high-quality, school-based health and well-being research evidence for Wales.
Helping schools, and those who support schools, to understand health research evidence and how it can be used for health improvement.