Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Finding Meaning Across Academia

Narelle Lemon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000474015
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing. It is a place where many of us spend significant amounts of our time, where we find meaning, and often form a sense of identity. Creating a Place for Self-care and Wellbeing in Higher Education explores the notion of finding meaning across academia as a key part of self-care and wellbeing.

In this edited collection, the authors navigate how they find meaning in their work in academia by sharing their own approaches to self-care and wellbeing. In the chapters, visual narratives intersect with lived experience and proactive strategies that reveal the stories, dilemmas, and tensions of those working in higher education. This book illuminates how academics and higher education professionals engage in constant reconstruction of their identity and work practices, placing self-care at the centre of the work they do, as well as revealing new ways of working to disrupt the current climate of dismissing self-care and wellbeing.

Designed to inspire, support, and provoke the reader as they navigate a career in higher education, this book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers specifically interested in studies in higher education, wellbeing, and/or identity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of images
• Notes on contributors
• Series preface
• Acknowledgements
• Review team
• 1 Self-care is worthy of our attention: using our self-interest for good in higher education
• PART I Nurturing self: self-care is worthy of our attention
• PART II Supporting, nurturing, and encouraging others
• PART III Facilitating institutional change and forming a community of scholars who promote wellbeing
• Index