14:00 – 15:00 CEST, 11 September 2025 ‐ 1 hour
Room: F5
Roundtable session
Studies confirm an alarming trend: young men are experiencing deep levels of loneliness, isolation and loss of meaning, while spending their days online navigating the ‘manosphere’. While universities are doing research, there is still a lack of awareness. In this session, participants will learn about the risks for international students and will participate in a ‘gamification’ experience, a tool and generative resource that they could potentially implement at their institutions.
Topics:
Student mental health support Soft (transversal) skills
European Student Placement Agency Ltd, United Kingdom
Independent Intercultural Consultant and Trainer, United Kingdom
A specialist in student mental health, with a focus on outreach and training within higher education
Stephanie is an intercultural consultant/trainer at her own intercultural consultancy for higher education institutions, which focuses on the internationalisation of students. She recently retired from the position of Associate Director for Counselling and Mental health Support at King’s College London, after having worked in the field of psychological counselling for over 30 years. Stephanie has developed a programme of outreach and training, with the aim of enabling home and international students, academics and frontline administrative staff to be trained in the psychological pressures that they may encounter. She embarked on a study trip to Fudan and Shanghai Jaio Tong Universities in 2015, with the objective of understanding the presentation and treatment of mental health issues amongst students in China and has since been invited to speak at several conferences in China, organised through Oxford Prospects and Global Development Institute. Stephanie studied English and Education at Goldsmiths University; Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London; Guidance and Counselling at Reading University and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was the recipient of the King’s College Principal’s Award in 2018, which recognises an individual who has ‘gone above and beyond to champion the goals of the university and has delivered outstanding service as a King’s Ambassador’.
She has been a trainer at the EAIE Academy for the past five years and was one of the keynote speakers at the AACSB and EAIE Expert Community Business Education in 2020, on the topic of ‘avoiding virtual burnout: maintaining engagement, motivation and mental health in students, staff and faculty’.
Lunex University, Luxembourg
Jessica Price is an academic and counselling psychology practitioner with more than fifteen years of experience in the development of mental health and wellbeing interventions, supporting highly diverse and multicultural groups, drawing from approaches and experiences including counselling psychology; organizational behavior; positive psychology and student wellbeing.