1st Edition
Supporting and Promoting Wellbeing in the Higher Education Sector Practices in Action
This book provides innovative, practical tools to help combat declining personal wellbeing in the higher education workplace.
Divided into two sections, the book looks at wellbeing from institutional and individual levels. It outlines a framework for how wellbeing in the higher education workplace can be evaluated and clearly sets out initiatives for what can be done to improve faculty wellbeing. The book also explores issues such as the once vocational nature of academia, the extent to which institutions can provide allied health care and examines initiatives that individual faculty members have introduced for themselves.
Representing new ideas, perspectives and a variety of approaches to supporting and promoting wellbeing in the higher education workplace, this book will be of interest to academic staff as well as professional development personnel in higher education.
Part 1 Faculty wellbeing at institutional and leadership levels 1: Academic support 2: Positive wellbeing within workspaces 3: Positive wellbeing within workspaces Part 2: Wellbeing at the individual level 4: Academic identities and wellbeing practices 5: Innovative practices for supporting and promoting academic faculty wellbeing in the higher education sector 6: Individual wellbeing practices for a post-pandemic university
Biography
Angela Dobele is a retired associate professor in the College of Business and Law, RMIT University, Australia.
Lisa Farrell is Professor in the College of Business and Law, RMIT University, Australia.
