This page contains links to research about School Staff Wellbeing. It might be useful for students, or members of staff making a case for a focus on wellbeing. The majority of these resources are free but a few do require payment unless you can get them through your University or a professional subscription. The information here is ordered by date of publication, with the newest at the top. Know of any other good ones? Let us know on our Suggest a Resource page.
Many thanks to Dr Emma Kell @thosethatcan for so many brilliant suggestions.
Teacher Wellbeing in Free Schools
Teach Care @teachcareuk 20/02/2021
Is teaching bad for your wellbeing?
FFT Education Datalab @FFTEduDatalab 28/09/2020
Teacher anxiety in a typical – and atypical – year
FFT Education Datalab @FFTEduDatalab 22/09/2020
Were female teachers more anxious about work during lockdown than male teachers?
FFT Education Datalab @FFTEduDatalab 22/09/2020
How did lockdown affect teachers’ psychological wellbeing?
FFT Education Datalab @FFTEduDatalab22/09/2020
Education Support @EdSupportUK 2020
Are mental health problems among teachers on the rise?
FFT Education Datalab @FFTEduDatalab 28/012020
The wellbeing of the school workforce in England
Education Policy Institute @EduPolicyInst 6/1/2020
An Exploration of What it Means to be Struggling as a Secondary Teacher in England
Dr Suzanne Culshaw @SuzanneCulshaw 30/10/19
Summary and recommendations: teacher well-being research report
Ofsted @Ofstednews 22/07/2019
Making data work: Teacher workload advisory group report and government response
Department for Education @educationgovuk 5/11/18
Education Support Partnership @EdSupportUK 22/10/18
New research highlights concern about teacher wellbeing over the summer break
Education Support Partnership @EdSupportUK 26/7/18
Mental Health Working Paper Series Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools 2018
http://leedsbeckett.ac.uk/riches/our-research/working-paper-series/mental-health/
Teacher workload challenge: school research project reports DFE March 2018
Workload challenge research projects: summary report 2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workload-challenge-research-projects-summary-report-2018
Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey Research Report July 2017. Section 4 deals with workload.
Teacher Well-being Research Project City University July 2017
http://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/364987/Teacher-Well-Being-Report.pdf
Shifting identities: A mixed-methods study of the experiences of teachers who are also parents Dr Emma Kell
http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/20805/
Teacher knows best? Not any longer as parents muscle in on the classroom Apr 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/apr/29/schools-parents-pupils-education-teachers
Education Support Partnership Research Resources
https://www.educationsupportpartnership.org.uk/resources?f%5b0%5d=field_type%3A42
Christmas break vital to teacher’s psychological wellbeing. Dec 2016
How can school-based support boost teachers’ wellbeing? May 2016
schoolwell.co.uk/can-school-based-support-boost-teachers-wellbeing
Reducing Teachers’ Stress Leads to Higher Quality Classrooms. May 2016
A marked improvement? A review of the evidence of written marking. April 2016
Generation X School Leaders as Agents of Care: Leader and Teacher Perspectives from Toronto, New York City and London March 2016
http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/6/2/8/htm
Teachers’ wellbeing and depressive symptoms, and associated risk factors: A large cross-sectional study in English secondary schools March 2016
http://www.jad-journal.com/article/S0165-0327(15)30762-X/abstract
Social–emotional competencies among teachers: An examination of interrelationships February 2016
http://cogentoa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1151996
Overworked and underpaid, support staff are feeling the knock-on effects of teachers’ excessive workloads – ATL February 2016
Embedding wellbeing knowledge and practice into teacher education: building emotional resilience 2016
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/19997
Christmas break vital to teacher’s psychological wellbeing, says study December 2015
Christmas holidays play a critical role in preventing teacher burnout and exhaustion, according to a new study by academics at City University London.
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-vital-teacher-psychological-wellbeing.html
Schools Advisory Service ‘Addressing stress; ensuring wellbeing’ November 2015
http://www.schooladvice.co.uk/media/86823/final_schools_advisory_service_wellbeing_report.pdf
NUT YouGov Survey October 2015
A widely quoted survey showing that 53% of teachers are thinking of leaving the teaching profession in the next two years. The full data tables can be accessed from the link at the bottom of the page.
Organisational interventions for improving wellbeing and reducing work-related stress in teachers April 2015
Cochrane Work Group
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010306.pub2/abstract;jsessionid=5D2F4504E57E3BFB70248543E561246C.f04t04
UK Government Response to Workload Challenge February 2015
Evidence for Mindfulness: Impacts on the Wellbeing and Performance of School Staff 2014
School Workforce Data (England) November 2014
Statistics on the size and characteristics of the schools workforce in state-funded schools from the DFE.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014
Is there a link between teacher health and wellbeing and student outcomes? September 2014
The report in full: Healthy teachers, higher marks? Establishing a link between teacher health & wellbeing, and student outcomes August 2014
Understanding the factors that build teacher resilience February 2014
http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/18166/
Mindfulness for Teachers: A Pilot Study to Assess Effects on Stress, Burnout, and Teaching Efficacy August 2013
ttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mbe.12026/abstract
Teach Well: The Relation of Teacher Wellness to Elementary Student Health and Behavior Outcomes: Baseline Subgroup Comparisons March 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10556699.1995.10603151
The effect of trust on teacher empowerment: the mediation of teacher efficacy 2013
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03055698.2012.666339
Pupil wellbeing – Teacher wellbeing: Two sides of the same coin? December 2012
http://www.sueroffey.com/wp-content/uploads/import/32-Roffey%20ECP29-4.pdf
New lives of teachers Winter 2012
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ977354.pdf
An Investigation into Teacher Wellbeing During the Teacher Training Year 2012
http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/DATE/article/view/1729
Beyond Survival Teachers and Resilience July 2011
Profiling teachers’ sense of professional identity 2011
http://alexandria.tue.nl/openaccess/Metis255280.pdf
Teacher resilience and the perspectives of secondary school teachers on pupils’ challenging behaviour January 2011
Thriving not just surviving: A review of research on teacher resilience 2011
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1747938X11000297
Teacher Wellbeing: The Importance of Teacher–Student Relationships
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10648-011-9170-y
Conditions that support early career teacher resilience 2010
Teacher Wellbeing: A Review of the Evidence 2009
Teacher self-efficacy and teacher burnout: A study of relations 2009
The Well-Being Prpgramme Report 2009?
http://www.worklifesupport.com/sites/default/files/uploaded-documents/WLSDfEReport1009.pdf
Staff Wellbeing is the Key to School Success 2007
http://www.teachertoolkit.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5902birkbeckwbperfsummaryfinal.pdf
Teachers’ Occupation-Specific Work-Family Conflict 2007
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2007.tb00081.x/abstract
The Well-being of Teachers in Flanders: The Importance of a Supportive School Culture 2007
Variations in teachers’ work, lives and effectiveness 2007
http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6405/1/rr743.pdf
Teachers resilience: A necessary condition for effectiveness 2007
https://moodle.ied.edu.hk/pluginfile.php/379346/mod_resource/content/2/Gu%20%20Day%20(2007).pdf
Work–family conflict among female teachers 2005
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X05000211
Well-Being, Burnout and Competence : Implications for Teachers. 2005
http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol30/iss2/3/
Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers’ organizational commitment, professional commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in schools 2004
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X04000125
Emotions and Teacher Identity: A poststructural perspective 2003
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13540600309378
Interrogating “teacher identity”: emotion, resistance, and self-formation 2003
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2003.00107.x/abstract