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Dom Smithies (Student Minds) discusses the development of mental health resources to help prepare students for their transition to higher education, and delves into the resources students seek out when they start. Dom also provides insights from Student Minds’ Mental Health Inequalities research about the higher education experiences of different student groups, and proposes actionable strategies that Student Services can consider to address these insights.
Dom Smithies is the Head of Influencing and Communications at Student Minds, the UK's student mental health charity. Dom is a part of the senior leadership team within the organisation and leads the directorate responsible for policy, insight, communications and student engagement. He also supports the delivery of the University Mental Health Charter. Dom has been with the organisation for seven years and has been involved in a number of sector-wide initiatives to improve practice, including Universities UK's publications in their Suicide Safer Universities series, as well as publishing reports at Student Minds focused on addressing mental health inequalities.