Webinar Description
In this first session we introduce the webinar series by short introduction to meanings and interpretations of workplace wellbeing and positive mental health as applied to academia. We then move on to discussing establishing boundaries, a key tool for maintaining wellbeing but which in practice can be challenging to implement.
We will explore what boundary management looks like in academia and discuss strategies for setting and maintaining personal boundaries. You will then have an opportunity to ask questions and to discuss welling concerns and practice boundary setting in groups.
These webinars will be facilitated by Professor Sarah Robinson, with guest speakers throughout the 25/26 academic year.
Provider Information
British Academy of Management
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to all Sections, as detailed in the BAM Framework
Chaired by
Professor Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is a Co- Vice chair for the British Academy of Management with a responsibility for Academic Affairs of Conference and Capacity Building (AAC&CB). She is also leading on the academic wellbeing initiative, which is one of BAM’s current strategic priorities, and will be designing and facilitating this webinar series.
Sarah is currently Professor in People and Organisations at IÉSEG School of Management (Paris). She has research interests in professional careers, professional learning and development and has conducted several projects on academic careers including studies of: early career academics; academic wellbeing; academic doubt and failure; and doing academic careers differently.
Speakers
Professor Rosalind Searle
Professor Rosalind H. Searle (PhD, MBA) holds the chair in Human Resource Management and Organisational Psychology at the Adam Smith Business School in Glasgow. She is also Director of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology’s Impact Incubator. She is a chartered Occupational Psychologist, and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Rosalind’s research focuses primarily on organisational trust, and through this lens she is interested in the role of HRM processes for trust, the impact of change on organisational trust, the role of Decent work, and exploring distrust and its consequences particularly for counterproductive work behaviours. She is interested in the psychological processes that underpin changes to employee emotions, cognitions and behaviours. Her work with the UK’s health and social care regulator Professional Standards Authority has included comparative examination of fitness to practice producing one of the most influential reports for regulation identifying the individual, social and organisational antecedents, processes and contexts that lead to sexual misconduct and dishonesty in organisations. Her ESRC CREST funded study examined the impact of change on trust and CWB, and the subsequent toolkit has been widely used in organisations.
Dr Karen Maher, CPsychol, FHEA
Dr Karen Maher is a Chartered Psychologist and Lecturer at Aston Business School whose work specialises in Occupational Health and Work Wellbeing. She completed her PhD in Work Psychology at Loughborough University in 2018, which focused on employee wellbeing and shift working in the Fire and Rescue Service.
Prior to moving to Academia, Karen was a Health, Fitness, and Wellbeing practitioner with expertise in GP Exercise Referral, exercise rehabilitation, and weight management. Previous roles included Health and Wellbeing Advisor within the Fire and Rescue Service where she was responsible for behaviour change programmes in fitness, stress, and weight/disease management for operational and support staff using one-to-one coaching and group programmes.
Her research is currently centred on behaviour change within the workplace to improve safety and health of workers with projects exploring maladaptive coping behaviours in the workplace (substance use, counterproductive work behaviours), and adherence to safety policies and procedures.
Benefits of attending
- This session will allow you to engage with the concept of workplace place wellbeing in business and management academia
- It gives you the space to reflect on your wellbeing challenges and how to tackle them.
- Practically, you will have opportunity to think about your own personal boundaries and to receive tips on how to set and maintain them.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
BAM Members: Free
Non-Members: £60
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Registration closes on 2nd October 2025 at 23:59 BST.
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Cancellations
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