In 2021, UMHAN's Chair Anna Matthews published a white paper on the Role and Impact of Specialist Mental Health Mentoring on Students in UK Higher Education Institutes. 

As well as exploring the role of the Mentor, Anna used 10 years of research and feedback from students via her work with the University Mentoring Organisation (UMO) to demonstrate how mentoring has a positive impact on 

  • Functioning
  • Performance
  • Experience

You can download a copy of the paper via the UMO website:

Download link


UMHAN was happy to host the launch of this important paper, and you can watch the recording of this event below. 


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