THE podcast: building resilience and well-being among university staff and students

By miranda.prynne, 18 February, 2021
How university leaders and faculty can manage workloads and protect the well-being of staff and students to ensure online teaching is sustainable
Vertical
Teaching and learning
Article type
Podcast
Podcast discussing building resilience and protecting well-being among university staff and students
Summary

What can university leaders and academics do to take care of themselves and their campus communities during the Covid-19 crisis? What role does kindness and compassion play in university leadership?

Join THE's Sara Custer and Miranda Prynne as they discuss these questions with Thuy Thi Nguyen, president of Foothill College, and June Gruber, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. 

Explore resources addressing these issues in the Campus spotlight Helping staff and students avoid burnout.

If you would like advice and insight from academics and university staff delivered direct to your inbox each week, sign up for the Campus newsletter.

Resource link
https://www.podbean.com/media/player/2nxe6-fa64e4?from=pb6admin&download=1&vers…
Standfirst
How university leaders and faculty can manage workloads and protect the well-being of staff and students to ensure online teaching is sustainable

comment

Related content
By miranda.prynne, 11 February, 2021

Supporting academia’s well-being during Covid-19 and beyond

Advice on supporting the well-being of overworked academics
With an unprecedented global mental health crisis and rising stress among university staff, six academics come together to propose how best to support faculty and new ways of working now and well beyond the pandemic
Reading time
3minutes
By miranda.prynne, 4 February, 2021

How to manage your busyness to avoid burnout

How to manage your busyness to avoid burnout
Overwork and stress are growing issues among academics, particularly following the sudden transition to online teaching. Erin Wilson talks through how she manages her busyness to avoid burnout
By miranda.prynne, 14 December, 2020

This is not normal: advice for stressed academics

Advice for stressed academics on managing workloads
With the overhaul of teaching, soaring workloads, childcare demands and other challenges presented by Covid-19, many academics are at risk of burn-out. Psychology professor Jay Van Bavel outlines steps that stressed lecturers can take to manage workloads