Design a better 2022 - enhancing digital productivity & wellbeing for ECAs

Lecturer in Psychology;Course Director, BSc PsychologyDepartment of Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland

Dr. Elaine Kinsella

Design a better 2022 - enhancing digital productivity and wellbeing for early-career academics (ECAs) with Professor Anna Cox (UCL)

This event funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and will be hosted by the EMerge (early and mid-career academic) support network at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Further details of this event are provided below. Balancing teaching, research, and leadership activities can be challenging for early-career academics (ECAs). Evidence suggests that many ECAs report high levels of stress when embarking on an academic career, which not only has a negative impact on their wellbeing, but also, has the potential to limit their achievements in teaching and learning contexts. These struggles have been amplified during the global pandemic where online working has become normative, and it is now clear that blended approaches to learning will be a mainstream feature of higher education in the future. In this all-day webinar and workshop, Professor Anna Cox – an international expert on the interplay of work, technology, and wellbeing – will discuss the latest evidence for how best to navigate academic work in a way that supports productivity and wellbeing through effective digital work practices, providing an opportunity for early career academics to identify the strategies that will make 2022 successful for them. In the morning, Professor Cox will lead a public webinar where she will speak about her own career experiences and share her latest research findings on the challenges and opportunities facing ECAs as they engage in teaching and learning, and strive for digital wellbeing. In the afternoon, there will be an interactive online workshop for ECAs that will facilitate discussion and reflection on digital practices and innovations that promote productivity, enhanced teaching and learning, and wellbeing over the longer term. A key output of the workshop will be a personalised Eworklife plan in which participants will identify strategies for enhanced digital wellbeing practices in their own lives, and create plans to put them into practice so that they can become habits over time.Learning outcomes:• Engage in purposeful and critical reflection on everyday digital working practices as they relate to professional development and wellbeing• Participate in interdisciplinary peer dialogue and cultivate a professional network that helps people enhance their digital wellbeing in the context of academic teaching and learning• Identify key innovations in digital technologies to enhance learning, teaching and assessmentFormat:- 10am (GMT): 60mins talk &amp; Q&amp;A: “Work-Life Balance in Academia”- 2pm (GMT): 2hr interactive workshop: During this practical workshop, participants will reflect on their own current practices, share and consider new ways of working, receive practical support in implementing new strategies to ensure change happens on the day. Biography:Professor Anna L. Cox is Vice Dean (Equality, Diversity &amp; Inclusion) in the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the UCL Interaction Centre where she leads the eWorkLife group. Her research ambition is to systematically establish the relationships between the design of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and behavioural outcomes, and leverage these relationships in the design of novel interfaces and systems to support people with their work and wellbeing. She has served in senior roles on the programme and organising committees of a number of top-tier HCI conferences, including as technical programme chair for CHI2018 and CHI2019 and general chair of CHI PLAY 2015 and 2016. She is a member of the CHI steering committee. She was Specialist Advisor to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee at the House of Commons for their 2019 inquiry into immersive and addictive technologies. She is a 2021 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow at University of Melbourne. She co-edited one of the key texts for early career researchers in HCI Research Methods for Human Computer Interaction.

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