Resilience in Academic Development

Elisa K. Bone, Cormac McGrath, Tracy X. P. Zou, Kwong Nui Sim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9781040875971
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

This book explores the concept of resilience in higher education through the diverse perspective of academic development practices. It asks us to consider the complexity of the systems in which academic developers work, and the varied ways in which academic development practices can support, and build, resilience across these systems.

Higher education can be complex to navigate for students, academics and developers. Significant recent upheavals including reduced university funding, broadening student participation and the disruption from digital technologies, add to this complexity, amid global political and climate instability. Along with the recent disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, these issues challenge the ways in which we understand fairness, equity and opportunity in teaching and learning spaces, and across higher education more broadly. Ideas around how to support the resilience of higher education workers, educators and students are becoming more commonplace. This volume explores a range of perspectives on how we may view resilience in higher education, and the ways in which the work of academic developers can contribute to, and is situated within, resilient university systems.

This book was originally published as a special issue of International Journal for Academic Development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Building resilience in and through academic development
• 2 Coping strategies during faculty transitions: lessons learned from teaching an introductory happiness, positivity, and wellbeing course
• 3 Introducing brief mindfulness practices to mitigate faculty burnout in the post-COVID era
• 4 Uncovering the emotional dimension of developing teaching practice through uncertainty: a multimodal methodology
• 5 Using the VUCA framework to support faculty development during professional transitions
• 6 Supporting academic development during curriculum change: a co-operative inquiry of identity and engagement
• 7 Understanding the impact of a pandemic on the work of educational developers
• 8 Teaching award winners – (in)visible best-practice examples? Findings from Austria and Switzerland
• 9 Anatomy of a hospitable collaboration: academic hospitality in and for academic development
• 10 Advancing academic development: a strategic, integrated model for recognition, professional development, and community-building
• 11 The culturally sensitive curricula educator self-reflection tool as a step toward curricular transformation
• 12 The disrupting interview: a framework to approach decolonization
• 13 Off the side of the desk: equity work in Canadian teaching and learning centres
• 14 Promoting a collective conscience: designing a resilient staff–student partnership model for educational development
• Index