Despite high and increasing rates of self-harm amongst university students, there is a lack of research exploring how they can best be supported. Interventions for self-harm amongst students have been developed and positively evaluated, but 80% of students who self-harm never receive support. I propose a creative, ambitious and comprehensive approach to discover how self-harm is experienced and responded to within universities to improve the experience for students and the response to their self-harm. This will be achieved via four related work packages informed by a social ecological model. Firstly, on a university level, university policy and student-facing messaging around self-harm will be collated and triangulated with first-hand experiences of university wellbeing and pastoral staff to identify best practice and challenges. Secondly, on a community level, discourses around self-harm within university communities will be explored to gauge perceptions and possible sources of stigma. Thirdly, on an inter-personal level, experiences of friends and/or family who support students who self-harm will be investigated to understand any unmet needs they have. Finally, on an individual level, secondary data regarding self-harm and university attendance will be analysed to uncover who the largely unknown population is of students who self-harm. Additionally, students’ needs and priorities for wellbeing and self-harm support will be creatively explored to elevate voices that may typically be excluded from traditional methods. Findings will be brought together during a series of workshops with key stakeholders to co-produce resources aiming to better equip universities, staff and students to respond to self-harm.