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GUIDE

GUIDE will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort study of children’s and young people’s wellbeing.
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A Lust for Life
A Lust for Life

The A Lust For Life Schools Programme is a 10 week teacher-led programme which aims to build resilience, increase wellbeing & enhance the emotional literacy of Junior Infants to 6th class school children.

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Mind Your Wellbeing

Minding Your Wellbeing is an evidence-based programme, focusing on the promotion of mental wellbeing and has been adapted for embedding in higher education curriculum.
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FACES Child Poverty Pilot Project
FACES Child Poverty Pilot Project

FACES Families: Adult & Child Enhanced Services Child Poverty Pilot, led by DLR and Wicklow CYPSCs, LCDCs, Bray Area Partnership and Southside Partnership, collaborating with UCD a pilot on developing interventions to promote the wellbeing of parents, children, and the family system within the external context in which the family is situated.
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Children\'s School Lives
Children's School Lives

Ireland’s first in-depth study of primary schools contributing to the development of national policy, informed by the voices of children, their families, their teachers and school leaders. Commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) Children’s School Lives Study (CSL) is conducted by UCD School of Education. A landmark study, it explores the lived experiences of over 4000 children in 189 primary schools across Ireland from 2019 – 2024.
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What We Know from Growing Up in Ireland

Identifying key factors which impede or support child wellbeing: A systematic review of outputs from Growing Up in Ireland (2008-2023), funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and led by Ross Neville, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sport Science
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Holistic Sustainable Wellbeing in Curriculum, Assessment & Pedagogy
Holistic Sustainable Wellbeing in Curriculum, Assessment & Pedagogy

The project is developing a toolkit of different approaches that can be used to promote sustainable wellbeing through curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment at UCD, be built by students for students, as experts of their own experience.

UCD Centre for the Advancement of Wellbeing in Education

The Geary Institute for Public Policy & School of Education, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.