Who can join:

You can participate if you are a student at UiT, campus Tromsø between 18 and 25, wether you are actively studying, on sick leave or struggling to complete. Participants should have personal experience of mental health issues in their everyday student life in Tromsø. These issues you face may be small or big, formally diagnosed or not, but they should not be so large that they pose a danger to your health/ life.

How to participate:

The final interviewing and group sessions will be performed during the spring semester 2022. You can choose to participate:

A: Anonymously in an interview 
B: in a small group with other students
C: OR both

Participate in an individual interview:

The interview is a confidential conversation with the researcher that will last between 1 and 2 hours. We meet on a time and place preferred by you within the spring of 2022. I’ll bring some food and drink if you want it. Bring 2-3 photos on your mobile phone that can illustrate something about your mental health and wellbeing in everyday life as a student – and what affects it positively and negatively. We reflect on the photos together using a semi-structured interview guide. I will aslo invite you to describe how your mental health and wellbeing has developed over time.

What can researchers and professionals learn from your experiences?

I will ask your permission to record the conversation for the most accurate analysis. The recording will be stored directly in the services for secure datastorage (TSD) and will be deleted once I have transcribed it as anonymous text. If you consent, I will use some of the collected photos anonymously, for example in a presentation for researchers and different kinds of professionals or in a research paper on our findings.

Join a STUDENTGAZE group:

A STUDENTGAZE group is a film- and research workshop involving the projectleader, a technical advisor and 4-10 other students with similar experiences.

You can now join a STUDENTGAZE group with the first startup meeting on friday the 1st of april, between 1730-1930. The group then meets 6 mondays in the spring 2022 between 1730-1930 in a seminar room, campus Tromsø (disclosed at enrolment). The project offers pizza for all group meetings:

1. meeting: friday april the 1st 

2. meeting: monday april the 4th

(we are skipping the mondays on the 11th and 18th of april due to the easter holiday) 

3. meeting: monday april the 25.th

4. meeting: monday, may the 2.nd

5. meeting: monday, may the 9.th

6. meeting: monday, may the 16.th

7. meeting: monday, may the 23.th

With departure in your own experiences, you as  participants support eachother in making short films that can give a better understanding of mental health and wellbeing in everyday student life to relevant audiences. Practical experience with filmmaking is not required. You decide where and when the films may be used. 

As a group participant you are allso invited as a
form of anonymously credited co-researcher in an introductory phase of themathic analysis
for a scientific paper. reflections and themes evolving in the workshop are explored in the
group, for example:

What is mental health and wellbeing in everyday student life? What does it take? What should be different?

Your rights:

Participation is voluntary. You can withdraw at any time and it will not affect your relations at
the university or any public offices or services. We will treat your personal information
confidential and in line with regulations given by the Norwegian centre for research data (NSD)
Contact researcher Maria Fredriksen Kvamme for more information about rights, protection of
personal information.

Contact the projectleader and researcher if you want to join or have questions:

Maria Fredriksen Kvamme
97182260/ maria.f.kvamme@uit.no
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I’m more than happy to meet you for a non-binding information meeting!