Exploring Time as a Resource for Wellness in Higher Education

Sharon McDonough is an Associate Professor in Teacher Education at Federation University Australia in Ballarat, Australia. Sharon is a qualitative and creative methods specialist, and her research expertise focuses on the field of wellbeing and resilience in teacher education, higher education, and community settings. Narelle Lemon, Vice Chancellor Professoriate Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in arts, education, and positive psychology. Her research focuses on enhancing wellbeing literacy in K-12 schools, teacher education, higher education, and community settings, emphasizing evidence-based practices for proactive flourishing.

1. Reconceptualising our relationship with time to enhance self-care and wellbeing in higher education

Part 1 - IDENTITY TAKES TIME TO RETHINK

Opening poem: Navigating Academia's Labyrinth: Time, Identity, and Wellbeing

2. Reclaiming Embodiment of my Academic Time through Yoga Practice

3. Moving abroad to work in Higher Education,in a different language, as a constructive disruption

4. Time keeps on slippin’, slipping: Oldlings holding on, and onto the embodied self

5. Not quite a professor: professional identity, self-care and time management as an atypical academic

Part 2 - INTENSIFICATION AND CARE

Opening poem: Echoes of Academia: Time, Care, and Collective Wellbeing

6. The Work of Wellbeing: Making Time and Creating Space in Academia

7. Fire and Focus: The Decision of Which Flames to Fan in Higher Education

8. Fighting Dragons with Contemplative Practices: A Hero’s Journey in Higher Education through Time and Self-Care

9. Time Allocation and Job Satisfaction for Women Academics: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

10. Interstate Dialogues: Chronicles of Rhythms of Time and the Art of Self-Care of a Mobile Academic

Part 3 - TIME INVESTING IN SELF

Opening poem: Embracing Balance: Nurturing Academia's Soul

11. In and out of time: practising self-care when leaving and re-entering higher education.

12. Overwork is not evidence of passion

13. Deep Dive on Boundary Setting: Time for maintaining, and thriving.

14. Self-care: A Guilty Pleasure or Required Academic Work?