Faculty workshop: Being an Effective, Successful, Happy Academic

With Alex Clark and Bailey Sousa

Wednesday, Aug. 14
1:30 - 4 p.m.
Taylor Institute Learning Studios AB

Being successful in academic work is uniquely challenging. Whatever your role or focus on teaching, research, or engagement: work is diverse, demands high and expectations boundless. Our mental wellbeing, workplace engagement, and career aspirations are often at high risk. Where to start in taming academic work?

Drawing on an internationally-renowned values-driven approach to academic work, come to this participatory workshop to develop the deep practices and skills needed to meet the academic work challenge. Whatever your career stage, discipline or aspirations, come to this interactive workshop to engage with and harness the best and latest thinking, research, and approaches to become more effective, successful and happy.


Alex Clark and Bailey Sousa’s work on academic skills has been featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Education, and various professional journals. Authors of How to be a Happy Academic they have led interdisciplinary workshops throughout Canada and all over the world on aspects of academic work, including incorporating values, writing publications for impact, grantsmanship, and project management skills. Alex and Bailey are also active in their roles respectively as the Associate Vice President (Research) and the Director of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta.

Part of the Educators Summer Wellness Series. See the full listing of events.

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