FROM STUDENT VOICE TO ACTION
OxWell At A Glance
A whole-school survey
All students in participating year groups are invited to tell us about school life, wellbeing, mental health and access to support, giving schools and local partners a broad picture of experiences and needs.
Co-designed
Young people, schools, and health services help shape what we ask and how we ask it, informing survey questions, language, sensitive-content warnings and how findings are shared back.
Private by design
Students can choose whether to take part and can skip any question. For students under 16, parents can opt their child out. We do not collect names, dates of birth or addresses, and we do not try to identify individual students.
Findings returned for action
Schools, local authorities and health partners receive their own findings to better identify current priorities, explore groups experiencing different levels of need, and inform planning across education, health and public mental health.
What do we ask about?
School experience & belonging
Wellbeing & mental health
Safety & bullying
Home & family
Sleep & online life
Mental health support & unmet need
From Insight to Action
For 2027, we are developing OxWell further to return findings rapidly and help schools and partners connect identified priorities with evidence-informed approaches that could support change.
Published in Nature Mental Health,
researchers led by Dr. Holly Bear and
Professor Mina Fazel, analysed data from the
2025 OxWell Student Survey wave.
Students were asked whether they had encountered self-harm content online during the previous month, how often they had seen it, and how they came across it. One in three young people reported seeing self-harm content online in the past month.
Watch our latest videos:
The OxWell Data Platform: OxHub: a video for school leaders and commissioners to better understand how our data platform works.
OxWell 2025 School Belonging Results: Our team members, students and a headteacher explore how schools build connection, community, and a sense of being valued.
OxWell Virtual Internship Programme
In July 2026, we ran our first OxWell Virtual Internship Programme (OxVIP). Over an intensive week, 25 sixth form students learned about the research process, designed and conducted their own micro-research projects using real, anonymised OxWell data, and saw first-hand how research can help improve young people’s lives.