Narelle Lemon, VC Professoriate Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in arts, education, and positive psychology. Her research focuses on enhancing wellbeing literacy in K-12 schools, teacher education, higher education, and community settings, emphasising evidence-based practices for proactive flourishing.

• Part 1: The Setting 1. Rethinking Expectations in Academia: How Lowering Expectations of Ourselves and Others Improves Wellbeing 2. Laughter as survival, selfcare, solidarity, and resistance in academia 3. Queer visibility and self-care in academia: Exploring the contradictions of identity, activism and silence 4. Killing the Binary Part 2: Repositioning Learning and Teaching for Self and Others 5. Confronting failure as self-care: Critical honesty as a springboard for positive change in teaching and learning 6. Exploring belonging: Reflections on valuing lived experiences and centering healing in compassionate and meaningful interactions 7. Beware the awareness gap 8. Things Differently through the Lenses of Gestalt Philosophy and Practice-based Learning: A Hopeful Outlook on the Benefits of Co-creating with Students to Support Wellbeing in Higher Education 9. It’s about Place: Inside Indigenising the curriculum Part 3: Connection, Interconnection, and Companions 10. A meditation on the idea of heterotopia and the need for spaces of hope and possibility in higher education 11. How A Unique Student Fellowship Model Enables Proactive Wellbeing 12. Fostering an ecosystem of connection 13. A cat named Jiji: belonging, identity and navigating cultural displacement in academia Part 4: Emerging Researchers, Mentoring and Finding One's Self 14. Raising self-awareness by thinking beyond the boundary fence: Exploring the potential boundaries around international doctoral students 15. With awareness comes great power: Self-discovery and acceptance as strategies for thriving in academia 16. Does belonging affect wellbeing? A researcher experiences of transition from a conflict-affected country to Australia Part 5: Taking a Closer Look at Leadership 17. Leading with kindness: A self-care (and survival) way of being for an academic administrator 18. Expansive Leadership, Expansive Engagement: Two viewpoints on learning into spacious leading 19. Finding an equilibrium? Is that possible when you are thrown into leadership?

Narelle Lemon, VC Professoriate Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in arts, education, and positive psychology. Her research focuses on enhancing wellbeing literacy in K-12 schools, teacher education, higher education, and community settings, emphasising evidence-based practices for proactive flourishing.

• Part 1: The Setting 1. Rethinking Expectations in Academia: How Lowering Expectations of Ourselves and Others Improves Wellbeing 2. Laughter as survival, selfcare, solidarity, and resistance in academia 3. Queer visibility and self-care in academia: Exploring the contradictions of identity, activism and silence 4. Killing the Binary Part 2: Repositioning Learning and Teaching for Self and Others 5. Confronting failure as self-care: Critical honesty as a springboard for positive change in teaching and learning 6. Exploring belonging: Reflections on valuing lived experiences and centering healing in compassionate and meaningful interactions 7. Beware the awareness gap 8. Things Differently through the Lenses of Gestalt Philosophy and Practice-based Learning: A Hopeful Outlook on the Benefits of Co-creating with Students to Support Wellbeing in Higher Education 9. It’s about Place: Inside Indigenising the curriculum Part 3: Connection, Interconnection, and Companions 10. A meditation on the idea of heterotopia and the need for spaces of hope and possibility in higher education 11. How A Unique Student Fellowship Model Enables Proactive Wellbeing 12. Fostering an ecosystem of connection 13. A cat named Jiji: belonging, identity and navigating cultural displacement in academia Part 4: Emerging Researchers, Mentoring and Finding One's Self 14. Raising self-awareness by thinking beyond the boundary fence: Exploring the potential boundaries around international doctoral students 15. With awareness comes great power: Self-discovery and acceptance as strategies for thriving in academia 16. Does belonging affect wellbeing? A researcher experiences of transition from a conflict-affected country to Australia Part 5: Taking a Closer Look at Leadership 17. Leading with kindness: A self-care (and survival) way of being for an academic administrator 18. Expansive Leadership, Expansive Engagement: Two viewpoints on learning into spacious leading 19. Finding an equilibrium? Is that possible when you are thrown into leadership?

Narelle Lemon, VC Professoriate Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in arts, education, and positive psychology. Her research focuses on enhancing wellbeing literacy in K-12 schools, teacher education, higher education, and community settings, emphasising evidence-based practices for proactive flourishing.

• Part 1: The Setting 1. Rethinking Expectations in Academia: How Lowering Expectations of Ourselves and Others Improves Wellbeing 2. Laughter as survival, selfcare, solidarity, and resistance in academia 3. Queer visibility and self-care in academia: Exploring the contradictions of identity, activism and silence 4. Killing the Binary Part 2: Repositioning Learning and Teaching for Self and Others 5. Confronting failure as self-care: Critical honesty as a springboard for positive change in teaching and learning 6. Exploring belonging: Reflections on valuing lived experiences and centering healing in compassionate and meaningful interactions 7. Beware the awareness gap 8. Things Differently through the Lenses of Gestalt Philosophy and Practice-based Learning: A Hopeful Outlook on the Benefits of Co-creating with Students to Support Wellbeing in Higher Education 9. It’s about Place: Inside Indigenising the curriculum Part 3: Connection, Interconnection, and Companions 10. A meditation on the idea of heterotopia and the need for spaces of hope and possibility in higher education 11. How A Unique Student Fellowship Model Enables Proactive Wellbeing 12. Fostering an ecosystem of connection 13. A cat named Jiji: belonging, identity and navigating cultural displacement in academia Part 4: Emerging Researchers, Mentoring and Finding One's Self 14. Raising self-awareness by thinking beyond the boundary fence: Exploring the potential boundaries around international doctoral students 15. With awareness comes great power: Self-discovery and acceptance as strategies for thriving in academia 16. Does belonging affect wellbeing? A researcher experiences of transition from a conflict-affected country to Australia Part 5: Taking a Closer Look at Leadership 17. Leading with kindness: A self-care (and survival) way of being for an academic administrator 18. Expansive Leadership, Expansive Engagement: Two viewpoints on learning into spacious leading 19. Finding an equilibrium? Is that possible when you are thrown into leadership?