Webinar Description
This interactive session explores how colleagues across the academic career spectrum can navigate the growing uncertainty within the higher education sector. With increasing financial pressures, shifting expectations, concerns about job security, and changing working conditions, many academics are experiencing heightened anxiety, doubt, and instability.
The session will discuss how these sector-wide changes affect different groups — including early career and more established colleagues — and what individuals, line managers, and institutions can do to provide meaningful support. The session will introduce reflective approaches to help colleagues understand their strengths, build visibility, and maintain a sense of agency in challenging times.
Participants will be invited to contribute through short interactive activities designed to surface concerns, share experiences, and identify practical strategies that can be applied in day-to-day academic life. We will also be discussing experiences and tips around research, teaching, probation, establishing social support, and career planning.
Please note: Due to the interactive and sensitive nature of these wellbeing webinars, these sessions will not be recorded.
As part of our strategic objective to promote wellbeing and positive mental health in business and management academics and doctoral researchers, we are excited to launch our series of webinars which will run monthly on Fridays 13:00 - 14:30 throughout the Academic year 25/26.
These webinars will be facilitated by Professor Sarah Robinson.
Provider Information
British Academy of Management
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to all Sections, as detailed in the BAM Framework
Guest Speakers
Prof Roberta Fida
Prof Roberta Fida is a full Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Psychology at Aston Business School. She is the Head of the Leadership and Management Department and Department Research Director. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist of the British Psychological Society and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Roberta is also the lead of the Threat and Security stream of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology’s Impact Incubator (EAWOPi) and the convenor of the Work & Organization working group of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA).
Her research interests are related to work stress and unethical behaviour at work. In particular she is interested in understanding why people might behave unethically and how we can prevent this. She is known for her continuous research on the role of moral disengagement and self-efficacy. She has published more than 80 papers in scientific journals including Journal of Business Ethics, British Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Group & Organization Management, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences.
Dr Kara Ng
Dr Kara Ng is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester, where she is also the Early Career Researcher Development Academic Lead. Kara's research centres around understanding why and how people behave badly at work; specifically, she is interested in the role of bystanders in workplace mistreatment and bullying.
She has presented her work for academic and non-academic audiences. Her research has been published in high-ranking journals, such as Human Relations, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
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.
Benefits of attending
- TBC
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
This event is free for all to attend.
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.
For more information, please visit BAM Membership
Registration closes on 4th December 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Payment and Cancellation Policy
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Cancellations
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- Go to your BAM Account
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