SHINE aims to help transform health and wellbeing outcomes for young people in Scotland through high-quality, school-based health improvement research and data-driven innovation.

SHINE provides an infrastructure to support improvements in health and wellbeing amongst school-aged children by building a collaboration between schools, researchers and policy-makers.

Pupil health and academic attainment are intertwined. Healthier pupils have higher attainment and, in the longer term, those who achieve better educational outcomes have better health and wellbeing.

Wellbeing is a core value of the SHANARRI indicators (GIRFEC) and is key to helping each child achieve their full potential. While numerous interventions have been developed to promote pupil health and wellbeing, results are mixed and more research is needed on how best to increase their effectiveness.

High quality health improvement research in Scotland would benefit children, schools and policy makers.

Today, in Scotland, we have 767 schools in the SHINE network. We are proud to include local authority primary and secondary schools, independent schools and special schools from the Shetland Isles to the Scottish Borders in all 32 Local Authority areas.

If you would like your school to become a member of SHINE, complete the online registration form here . It’s free to join!