Bloomsbury Handbook Speaker Series with Dr. Sofia Georgiadou: "Supporting Faculty Wellness Initiatives During Times of Crisis and Change" - CTEI Yorkville University & Toronto Film School

Bloomsbury Handbook Speaker Series with Dr. Sofia Georgiadou: “Supporting Faculty Wellness Initiatives During Times of Crisis and Change”

Posted on September 9, 2024

September 9th, 2024

Dr. Sofia Georgiadou (Yorkville University) and Dr. Katrina McChesney (University of Waikato)

Bloomsbury Handbook Speaker Series with Dr. Sofia Georgiadou: “Supporting Faculty Wellness Initiatives During Times of Crisis and Change”

Join our very own Dr. Sofia Georgiadou (Yorkville University) and Dr. Katrina McChesney (University of Waikato) for their chapter on supporting faculty wellness during times of change.

Sofia and Katrina share frameworks (drawn from the authors’ national contexts) for workplace wellbeing, all of which highlight the need for holistic, transformative approaches from those in positions of leadership. They also share practical strategies, policies, and programming that higher education leaders can initiate now to promote faculty wellbeing within a transformative orientation, considering protection from harm, connection and community, work-life harmony, mattering at work, and opportunities for growth.

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Additional information, research, and scholarship:

Marquette University. n.d. “Retention of Faculty of Color Toolkit”
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. n.d. Reflection Questions for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being

Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

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Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.