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Across the two days, attendees can select from over 220 sessions. We’ve condensed this year’s content to ensure great value for attendees. Alongside our festival keynote speeches, there will be a selection of strands covering topics including Artificial Intelligence, Ofsted, Cognitive Science, SEND and sustainability. Plus, we will have our usual diverse line-up of Festival sessions covering a broad spectrum of topics for all educators.
We will start announcing Festival Keynotes in March. Festival strand and session information will be released from late April.
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Thursday, July 6 • 9:30am - 10:15am
Supporting student psychological wellbeing through education and fiction

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In this session, I will initially draw on my experience as a U public health leader to convey the status of children's mental health in this country and internationally, including the role of the pandemic in the rise of psychological health problems. Next, I will share an approach to understanding how the mind works that is proving invaluable, through educational programmes nationally and internationally, in enhancing student wellbeing and resilience. Finally, I will talk through the power of fiction as a complimentary vehicle to health improvement, including how I draw on this approach to support wellbeing in my fiction books.
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Anthony Kessel

Clinical Director, National Clinical Policy, NHS England & University Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Clinical Director, National Clinical Policy, NHS England & University Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Anthony is a public health physician, academic and author. He is Clinical Director (National Clinical Policy) at NHS England and previously worked as Director of Global Public Health at Public Health England. He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine... Read More →

Thursday July 6, 2023 9:30am - 10:15am BST
Maths 7
  Student Wellbeing