If you're a current RMIT staff member or student – aged 18 or over and based in Australia – you're invited to take part in the Mental Wellbeing Survey 2023.
The Mental Wellbeing Survey is part of RMIT’s commitment to mental health and wellbeing across our whole university community – including staff and students. We believe that feeling well is fundamental to studying, working, and living well. We know that mental health and wellbeing is an issue that staff and students care deeply about.
The survey is designed as an annual check-in on how staff and students are feeling at RMIT, and what RMIT staff and students think about the University's approach to mental wellbeing. It's completely anonymous and all responses are de-identified.
The Mental Wellbeing Survey has been running at RMIT since 2021. Every year, the survey results play an important role in informing RMIT's wellbeing initiatives with staff and students. One example is local area action planning, where dedicated planning takes place to identify and reduce psychosocial risks across different parts of the University.
The survey is part of RMIT's Mental Wellbeing Strategic Action Plan 2020-2025, which frames how we build and sustain systems that can better support psychosocial safety and wellbeing. At the heart of this is a culture of care, where safety and wellbeing are meaningfully embedded in everything we do.
This survey complements other surveys that are run at RMIT – such as staff engagement surveys and the Student Experience Survey. Insights from all of these surveys help us better understand how staff and students experience university life at RMIT. They provide important guidance for, what we need to focus on and how we can best shape our initiatives to improve positive mental wellbeing and support the whole university community.
In 2023, the survey is being run by a team of researchers at RMIT. The team brings together staff from the College of Design and Social Context and staff from the Health, Safety and Wellbeing area.
In August 2023, eligible staff and students will receive an email via their RMIT email address with a link to the survey. The survey is also being promoted across different digital and physical spaces – so you’ll see it pop up in local area newsletters, as part of staff notices, via student-focused social media posts, and on digital screen displays with QR codes around campus.
The survey should takes most people 10-20 minutes to complete.
The survey opens and closes on different dates for staff and students:
Staff – opens on Tuesday 8 August 2023, closes on Tuesday 22 August 2023
Students – opens on Monday 28 August 2023, closes on Monday 10 September 2023
The survey should be available via any computer, mobile or tablet device with internet access.
If you're experiencing any difficulty accessing the survey online, the Wellbeing and Psychosocial Safety team via e-mail at RMITWellbeing@rmit.edu.au
Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2022 survey. The key findings are included below.
In 2022, among students:
In 2022, among staff:
As with findings from the first Mental Wellbeing Survey in 2021, these results were not unexpected. We again recognise that the university sector has been facing challenges for some time, and that these challenges have been exacerbated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
We have already used the results to guide further work, aiming to improve positive mental wellbeing and provide appropriate support to those who need it.
Read more about RMIT’s approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Staff can also learn more via the RMIT Mental Wellbeing Hub on SharePoint (login required).
Support is available across the RMIT community. You can find information online about support services for staff (login required) and for students (no login required).
The survey is open to all current RMIT staff and students who are aged 18 or over and based onshore in Australia.
Location | Service | Contact details |
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Australia | RMIT Student Connect | 03 9925 5000 |
RMIT Urgent Student Mental Health Support Line | 1300 305 737 (call) 0488 884 162 (text) |
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Lifeline | 13 11 14 | |
Beyond Blue | 1300 220 636 | |
Medibank Health and Support Line (if you are overseas) | +61 2 8905 0307 | |
RMIT International SOS Assist Line (if you are overseas) | +61 2 9372 2468 | |
RMIT Safer Community Unit (for threatening or unwanted behaviour, including sexual harm) | +61 3 9925 2396 safercommunity@rmit.edu.au |
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Vietnam | RMIT Vietnam Wellbeing Support (Saigon South Campus) | (028) 3622 4432 Room 1.1.45 on campus |
RMIT Vietnam Wellbeing Support (Hanoi Campus) | (028) 3622 4432 Room 1.1.208 on campus |
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RMIT International SOS Assist Line | (028) 3829 8520 | |
Health Centre – Ho Chi Minh City | (028) 3776 1360 | |
Health Centre – Hanoi | (024) 3201 2601 | |
Spain | RMIT International SOS Assist Line | +61 2 9372 2468 |
Location | Service | Contact details |
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Australia | Employee Assistance Program | 1300 687 327 eap@convergeintl.com.au |
Lifeline | 13 11 14 | |
Beyond Blue | 1300 220 636 | |
RMIT Safer Community Unit (for threatening or unwanted behaviour, including sexual harm) | +61 3 9925 2396 safercommunity@rmit.edu.au |
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Report a psychosocial hazard at RMIT | Visit this RMIT SharePoint page | |
Vietnam | Employee Assistance Program | +84.24.44581939 eap@convergeintl.com.au |
RMIT International SOS Assist Line | (028) 3829 8520 | |
Health Centre Ho Chi Minh City | (028) 3776 1360 | |
Health Centre Hanoi | (024) 3201 2601 | |
Spain | Employee Assistance Program | +900.868553 eap@convergeintl.com.au |
RMIT International SOS Assist Line | +61 2 9372 2468 |
The Mental Wellbeing Survey asks about several psychosocial factors that pose a risk to mental health and wellbeing including workload management, bullying and harassment, fairness, civility and respect, traumatic events, violence and aggression, and inappropriate behaviour of a sexual nature.
If you have specific concerns that you would like to report to RMIT, please follow the guidance below:
The Mental Wellbeing Survey is being conducted as part of collaborative research that involves a team of researchers at RMIT. The team brings together staff from the College of Design and Social Context and staff from the Health, Safety and Wellbeing area.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.