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Target Audience: Academics/ Research Fellows

This is a live in-person event

Creating balance for a sustainable academic/ research life: finding your own path to having agency and creating boundaries

Aim

The narrative around work-life balance often leads people to feel guilty in both the personal and the professional areas of their lives. When we have too much to do at home and at work, we feel we have no choices. This session will support participants in exploring the kind of choices they have to regain a sense of control and agency across the complexities of their lives. We will explore the kind of boundaries we can engineer and the habits we need to practice to claim the balance needed for our well-being.

The desire to do well professionally and the ambition to create new opportunities for career progression often push us to take on too much. Challenges in the current UK HE context also mean additional workload demands are placed on all staff.

The session will encourage participants to reflect critically on the choices they are making in navigating their career and the alternatives they may have to work in more sustainable ways.

It will also support participants in exploring their roles as supervisors and managers in role modelling to others career progression with wellbeing in mind. Participants will consider their role in creating a work environment where others can maintain their well-being.

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

• Explore how our choices and boundaries in professional and personal settings impact our well-being and ability to sustain effective work practices
• Consider the choices we may want to make to progress professionally, enhancing our professional expertise and impact whilst maintaining our well-being.
• Appreciate the systemic context that impacts our ability to feel we have choices and can contribute to our experience of lacking agency.
• Develop strategies to move forward professionally with confidence and craft our own way of navigating sustainably and with more ease our personal and professional lives.

Following this session, participants will have;

• Raised self-awareness and self-compassion for their challenges in balancing multiple facets of their lives.
• Explored the default patterns of choices they are making that impact their well-being
• Gained clarity and strategies to shift patterns of behaviours and choices towards more sustainable ways of working/ living
• Articulated specific areas where they can take actions to feel they are making progress in their career, whilst maintaining control of their well-being

On-campus activity

• Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble 
• Hybrid is not available
• There maybe audience participation
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be a break 
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• In line with current University health and safety guidance, attendees are encouraged to use face masks
• The room has mechanical ventilation / The room has passive ventilation (i.e. open windows)
• Digital copies of resources may be emailed to participants in advance of delivery as standard / upon request
• Contact osdu@strath.ac.uk to request printed materials in different formats
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.