Keeping well, teaching well : supporting staff wellbeing

Savage, Katy and Morrissey, Sean (2021) Keeping well, teaching well : supporting staff wellbeing. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 22. ISSN 1759-667X (https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi22.768)

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Abstract

As an education development team, our initial responses to supporting staff in the pandemic were inevitably and completely focused on supporting staff in the pivot to online and blended learning. However,as time went on and there were nosigns of 'normality' returning our 'read' of staff needs and requirements began to change. We saw staff wellbeing emerge as a need that was increasingly important to address. Staff were speaking to us openly about feeling and experiencing symptoms of stress, working increasing hours to keep up with their workload, having less time to focus on family, and the difficulties of keeping themselves well in an effort to 'keep up'. They were telling us that many of the work challenges they were experiencing during the pandemic were contributing to stress, discomfort, and exhaustion. What they described were signs of the 'exhaustion funnel', a concept developed by Asberg that isexplored by Williams and Penman (2011, p.212)and shown below in Figure 1.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:80286
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    14 October 2021
    Published
    31 August 2021
    Accepted
    Notes:Published in Special Issue 22: Compendium of Innovative Practice
    Subjects:Education
    Department:Professional Services > Human Resources Directorate
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:25 Apr 2022 15:14
    Last modified:20 Apr 2024 00:49
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80286
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