Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Areas – Data Visualisation Tool


Invitation to help shape a new data visualisation tool

Community members with an interest in rural wellbeing are invited to help shape a new data visualisation tool focused on mental health in rural areas. This interactive platform is being developed to share insights from a community-led survey facilitated by Community Knowledge Matters (The Rural Health and  Wellbeing Community Co-Priority Survey)  and support conversations among rural residents, service providers, and policymakers.

This project puts community at the heart of the design process, giving you the opportunity to guide how the tool looks, feels, and functions based on your lived experience and/or professional knowledge.

Involvement would include joining either or both sessions online on:

  • Monday 7 July, 5 – 7 PM and/or

  • Tuesday 22 July, 5 - 7 PM 

Each session will be exploring a different stage of the development of the prototype, so you are welcome to join either or both sessions

This is in collaboration with the Co-Priority Survey working group, including community members, who developed and analysed the survey and Community Knowledge Matters. Find out more about the process and the survey here. 

Completing the questionnaire does not guarantee participation; selected participants will be contacted for next steps. Participants will receive a £15 gift voucher for 1.5 - 2 hours of online workshop as a token of appreciation for participation. 

Get in touch

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via email:

Researchers: 

  • Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati (aaa8@st-andrews.ac.uk)

  • Lydia Boles (lb370@st-andrews.ac.uk)

  • Haiyin Xu (hx36@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Contact about Community Knowledge Matters and the Co-Priority Survey: 


School of Computer Science 

University of St Andrews 

St Andrews