Wellbeing in Education in Childhood and Adolescence
We are partnered with the International Baccalaureate (IB) to redesign their approach to pupil wellbeing for 1.2 million students globally.
The Wellbeing Research Centre serves as an academic partner to the IB in studying the wellbeing of children and young people in education. Our work emphasises that there is value in using school time, money, and resources to improve pupil wellbeing.
Crucially, there is seemingly no trade-off to make between wellbeing and academic performance.
Put simply; happier children make better learners.
Explore some of our research outputs created in partnership with the IB using the links below. For more information on our work with the IB, visit ibo.org/research/wellbeing-research.
The IB and the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford have worked together on a series of reports focused on interventions related to wellbeing in schools.
The wellbeing of teachers is a “crucial factor” in the wellbeing of the entire school community. This reports examines some of the key drivers of teacher wellbeing, as well as interventions to improve it.
Research shows that wellbeing is declining for young people globally. This scoping report aims to investigate how wellbeing may be programmed across the IB curricula with a view to a new approach by 2030.