Supporting and Promoting Wellbeing in the Higher Education Sector

Download or read book Supporting and Promoting Wellbeing in the Higher Education Sector written by Angela R. Dobele and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides innovative, practical tools to help combat declining personal wellbeing in the higher education workplace. Divided into two sections, the book looks at wellbeing from institutional and individual levels. It outlines a framework for how wellbeing in the higher education workplace can be evaluated and clearly sets out initiatives for what can be done to improve faculty wellbeing. The book also explores issues such as the once vocational nature of academia, the extent to which institutions can provide allied health care and examines initiatives that individual faculty members have introduced for themselves. Representing new ideas, perspectives and a variety of approaches to supporting and promoting wellbeing in the higher education workplace, this book will be of interest to academic staff as well as professional development personnel in higher education.