The SHINE Network is led by University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews. The schools in the Schools Health and Wellbeing Improvement Research Network are joined by the following partners:

• Scottish Government
• Education Scotland
• NHS Health Scotland
• SHARE 
• TRIUMPH Network
• Mental Health Data Science Scotland
• School Health Research Network
• Generation Scotland

In 2014, a schools network was set up in Wales to enable effective collaboration between schools, policy makers and academic researchers focusing on school-based health improvement research. By 2018 all Welsh secondary schools had joined.