Student wins prestigious award to help improve mental health among farmers and their families

A Northumbria University PhD student has won an esteemed studentship award to support her research into the mental well-being of people from farming communities.

Sarah Kyle, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology, has been awarded a Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentship award, worth £5,500, for the academic year 2023-24.

Sarah is researching how well-being can be improved by building resilience to farm-specific stressors. As part of her research, Sarah is developing a scale to measure farming-related stress.