Self-care is critical right now. Three years after a change management experience in which I felt like a shunted carriage in Thomas the Tank Engine, I am once again at the mercy of a university restructure. This time I have managerial responsibility for others who are facing redundancy. Supporting them is a good distraction from … Continue reading This is self care
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Radical self care
It has been quiet on the blog front. During a busy time at work and in life, not posting has been an act of self-preservation and radical self care: Here are two extracts from Mindfulness in the Academy that explain what I mean (with thanks to the editors for sharing their work with me). From … Continue reading Radical self care
Less-than-perfect capabilities
I have a love/ hate relationship with university graduate capabilities statements. You know, those ubiquitous institutional claims about the attributes of their graduates, and the skills, knowledge, values and dispositions their degrees impart. For example: Our students will enter a globalising world of major environmental change and resource constraints, of scientific and technological advance and … Continue reading Less-than-perfect capabilities
The Slow Academic 