Bailey is associate vice-president of planning, quality and assessment at Athabasca University. Alex is president of Athabasca University. They are both founders of The Effective, Successful, Happy Academic, and the authors of "How to Be a Happy Academic" (Sage: London, 2018), they share a passion for effectiveness and aspiration in academic work.
When we feel inadequate, we need to better understand the impact of our systems.
How to address microaggressions and discrimination.
Want the summer break you need? Prepare to work at it.
Work better by listening more and talking less — not because it is easy, but because it’s valuable.
The career-long coaching that players receive holds lessons for reaching your own work goals.
To thrive in conflict situations: embrace learning and diversity, and grow trust.
Many practices in academia show and reinforce fixed mindsets in ourselves, our workplaces, and in our students.
You didn’t come into academia to do email: use this acrostic tool to attain R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N and break its hold over you.
Impoverished role-based definitions of leaders are endemic across universities, but we need to reclaim ‘leader’ as a gift word.
The time-work conundrum means you’ll never feel in control of your work or time but that’s okay – it’s what you do that matters most.
