ABSTRACT

Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally. The work provides a range of insights and strategies which reflect on wellbeing as an integral part of teaching, learning, policy, and student-mentor relationships.

The authors offer a uniquely holistic approach to supporting the wellbeing of both students and academic staff in graduate education. The text showcases optimized approaches to self-care, self-regulation, and policy development, as well as trauma-informed, arts-based, and embodied pedagogies. Particular attention is given to the challenges faced by minority groups including Indigenous, international, refugee, and immigrant students and staff.

Providing a timely analysis of the current issues surrounding student and faculty wellbeing, this volume will appeal to scholars and researchers working across the fields of higher education, sociology of education, educational psychology, and student affairs.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Defining “Wellbeing” for Students and Faculty in Graduate Education

part I|57 pages

Conceptualizing Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education Globally

part II|60 pages

Teaching, Learning, and Policy for Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing

chapter 6|17 pages

Roadmaps of Mental Health

An Environmental Scan of Mental Health Policies and Strategies in Ontario Universities

part III|74 pages

Individual and Relational Strategies for Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing

chapter 9|14 pages

Learning with and from One Another

Valuing Self-care as a Part of the Higher-Degree Research Student and Supervisor Relationship