Women Practicing Resilience, Self-care and Wellbeing in Academia

Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman is the Executive Dean of Research in Swinburne Sarawak. An award-winning multidisciplinary researcher driven by equity and access issues, she has been involved in transformative and impactful research. In 2020 she won the United Nations' WEP Award for the Community and Industry Engagement Category. In 2021, she received the Special Recognition Award for her contribution to education at the state-level celebration of International Women’s Day 2021 by the Chief Minister of Sarawak. In 2022 Dr Ida was highlighted in the book Sarawak Women in Scholarly writing. Voon Mung Ling is a Senior Lecturer and Research Cluster Leader for Human Resource Innovation in the School of Business, Faculty of Business, Design and Arts in Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak. She holds a PhD from UNIMAS in the area of leadership practices. Mung Ling’s research interests cover organizational behaviour, leadership in organizations, strategic planning, and human resource management practices. She is an active researcher and has published several research articles in journals and a book chapter. Kiran deep Sandhu is a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach. Her areas of research are gender, access, equity, and leadership. She is also the founder of the Give Back to Community Trust, a non-profit organization working on bridging the technological gap in rural education by supporting unprivileged children gain access to better education. In 2021, she was awarded among the "Most Admired Global Indians" by Passion Vista Magazine.

Part I: Women and the Changing Academia 1. Of glass ceilings and glass cliffs: Navigating the gendered academy 2. The holy trinity of teaching, research, and service 3. The dancing lecturer: Crafting the strong woman in the academia 4. Carrying the world on your back: The burden of self-care for under-represented women Part II: Identity Formations and the Career Trajectory 5. Solitude, sanctuary, and pseudo-mentors: A pandemic lens on an early career transition into doing and being research/researcher 6. Journaling As Self-Care, Journaling For Personal And Professional Development: A Visual Narrative 7. Give me wings, and I will fly 8. Navigating fieldwork amidst my menstrual cycle: Being a female ethnographer in a remote Indian region 9. Mentoring practices in higher education: Self-care through the lens of the mentee in the era of remote learning Part III: Of Well-being and Self-care in Academia 10. A polyvagal pathway: Implications of Pursuing It All 11. Carving your destiny in academia as a "lecturer" and a "mother" 12. Navigating and building resilience in academia: Dual perspectives 13. A great escape for my survival as a female academic in Japan: my story, my career trajectory 14. Uncensored? Writing our resistance as an act of self-care 15. Of wellbeing and self-care in academia