Graduate Wellbeing Metabolic Pathway Examining how wellbeing works enables students to co-produce transformative experiences throughout and after their higher educations. Self-Regulating Student Community Shared accommodation Recreational gatherings Social network, intentional community, experimental living
“Occupational Choice” Students learn habit of aligning goal content with values Experimental choices & spontaneous decisions
Goal-Oriented Activity Informal study groups, SU clubs & societies etc. Agency: students have chosen values-aligned activities
Preference for personally meaningful experience
Attitudes such as ambition, initiative, curiosity, ingenuity, drive & resilience emerge in activities aligned with values. Like-motivated affiliations.
Attitudes drive development of skills such as problem solving, leadership, progress chasing & project management.
Academic Experience Sequence of increasingly demanding assessed courseworks, examinations, projects and final year dissertation
Goal striving style celebrates personality: Myers-Briggs Type
Subjective Wellbeing HAPPINESS: ONS SWB Q3 SOCIAL TRUST: NEF SWB “Q5” Positive relationships and emotions: Seligman’s PERMA
Employability: Economic wellbeing Approachable, confident, collegial committed team player
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WORTHWHILE: ONS SWB Q2 Engagement, meaning & purpose: Seligman’s PERMA
Accomplishment: Seligman’s PERMA SATISFACTION: ONS SWB Q1
ANXIETY management: ONS SWB Q4
Habit of values-based occupational choice underpins graduates’ “workplace” agency, commitment & productivity
Development and evidence of attitudes & skills employed as selection criteria by businesses, and in communities, families etc.
Performance development: works smarter, not harder