Research Handbook of Academic Mental Health

Edited by Marissa S. Edwards, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, University of Queensland, Australia, Angela J. Martin, Professor, Work and Mental Health, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Emeritus Professor, School of Business, University of Queensland and Lauren E. Cox, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

• ContentsIntroduction and historical review 1Marissa S. Edwards, Lauren E. Cox, Angela J. Martin and Neal M. AshkanasyPART I NARRATIVES AND PERSPECTIVES1 “I realised that, if I am dead, I cannot finish my PhD!”: a narrativeethnography of psychological capital in academia 32Lynette Pretorius2 The impact of completing a doctorate as an older person in a globalpandemic and the steps taken to protect my mental health and wellbeing 48Gill Harvey3 A mask that eats the face: neurotypicality and autistic doctoral researchers 64Bobbie Jay White, Claire O’Neill and C.J. Griffin4 The invisible, yet dangerous mental health crisis among historicallymarginalized graduate and professional students 78Evelyn Vázquez5 Overcoming impostor syndrome: an intercultural response to PhDcandidature during the COVID-19 pandemic 95Citra Amelia, Alistair Welsh, Monika Winarnita and Ramón López Castellano6 An unrecognized avenue for academia’s most vulnerable:conceptualizing rescue supervision in the third space 110Joshua Wang, Kristy Winter and Hayley Moody7 “PhD is a personal individual struggle … but you don’t have to strugglealone”: supervisors’ perspectives of international scholars’ wellbeing 124Dely Lazarte Elliot, Sally Ohlsen, Kay Guccione, Robert A. Daley and ChrisBlackmore8 Advocating for better academic mental health: our journeys and lessonsfrom lived experience 140Zoë J. Ayres and Marissa S. Edwards9 ‘Smelly Velcro Cat’: a narrative of managing obsessive compulsive‘disorder’, generalised anxiety ‘disorder’, depression and an academic career 154Louise Oldridge10 Academic precarity and mental health: reviewing the domains ofprecarity “of”, “at”, and “from” work 168Austin Chia, Lara Mossman and Alexandra Louise Johnston11 Acknowledging diversity: exploring the lived experience of casual academics 181Ellie Meissner, Katrina Radford, Ashleigh Schweinsberg, Diana Sheldon,James Holder, Elena King and Caroline Kasputtis12 The ‘other’ in academia: the mental health of women in masculinizedinstitutions in Central and Eastern Europe 195Anna M. Górska13 Student evaluations and the impact on academic mental health 211Troy Heffernan and Kelly-Ann Allen14 Becoming and being an academic: the negative impact of profession onearly career academic mental health 227Victoria Lister and Katharina Spaeth15 Adverse health experiences narrated by university staff leaving duringthe COVID-19 pandemic 242A. Ian Glendon16 Locating academic staff wellbeing within the organization: the interplaybetween personality, workload and burnout among academic staff 261Konstantina Paitaridou, Olga Lainidi and Anthony Montgomery17 Work–life balance and wellbeing in academic employees 276Gail KinmanPART II STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS18 Wellbeing in the curriculum: opportunities and challenges for higher education 291Jessica F. Surdey and Deirdre Byrne19 Doctoral students’ mental health and well-being: what we know andwhat we can do 307Anna Sverdlik20 Proactive, systemic approach for faculty/staff support of (graduate)student wellbeing 325Nicole L. Hacker21 Tools for improving academic mental health and holistic wellbeing 347Shira Tarrant22 Finding self through acts of creativity 361Caitlin Kight and Narelle Lemon23 Work passion and academic wellbeing 380Jennifer Ann L. Lajom, Laramie R. Tolentino, Anna Sverdlik, RebeccaMitchell and Robert J. Vallerand24 Navigating academic mental health and wellbeing, a case for resilience?Lessons for higher education using an ‘academic-centered approach’ 394Karishma Jivraj25 It takes a village: how peer coaching groups can support mental healthin academia 409Roman Terekhin26 Empowering university leaders, staff, and graduates for mental healthaction in higher education 421Christine Grove, Jason Skues, Kelly-Ann Allen, Alexandra Marinucci, KerrynButler-Henderson and Salma Arabi27 Creating a sense of belonging in academia: challenges, facilitators, andimplications for university leaders, staff and graduate students 436Kelly-Ann Allen, Margaret L. Kern, Jonathan Reardon, Joseph Crawford,Christopher D. Slaten, Troy Heffernan, Lan Ma, Christine Grove and StevenRoberts28 Understanding academic workloads through HRM systems: choosingbetween the bottom line and a healthy sustainable workforce 459Fiona Archontoulis, Keith Townsend and Rebecca Loudoun29 The ARK program: a participatory organizational health interventionand development of meaning at work and work to home conflict overtime for academics in Norway 475Marit Christensen, Silje Fossum Fladmark, Josefina Peláez Zuberbühler, SiwTone Innstrand and Karina Nielsen30 The landscape of mental health in higher education: the current stateand where to next? 493Lauren E. Cox, Angela J. Martin, Jo Bishop, Olav Muurlink and AllisonMandrusiakConclusion 516Angela J. Martin, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Marissa S. Edwards and Lauren E. Cox