The Gentle Academic

Reimagining the Contemporary University Culture with Principles of Community, Leadership, and Care

Christine Grove, Kelly-Ann Allen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

201 Seiten

2026
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-95-4083-9 (ISBN)

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This book presents principles that offer an alternative approach to current academic practices by fostering thoughtful engagement with scholarly work and collegial relationships. Academic work exists within a system of substantial workloads, publication expectations, funding requirements, workforce casualization, structural inequities, and academic rejection. These systemic barriers affect staff wellbeing and job satisfaction while creating challenging work contexts. This edited volume examines eleven key principles: Be upfront and honest about the things you do not know; Acknowledge the intrinsic value of others' knowledge bases even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context; Do not feign mastery where you have none; Respect the gaps in others' knowledge bases; Be generous with others; Be generous with yourself; You overwork yourself at the risk of legitimising a culture of overwork; Privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy; Nothing is ever neutral or apolitical; Support the progress of other scholars; and Collaboration over competition.

Dr Christine Grove is an Associate Professor in Educational and Developmental Psychology, previous Vice-Chancellor’s Advanced Research Fellow at RMIT University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. She holds a PhD in Psychology and is a Fulbright Scholar (2021–22). Her research bridges psychology, education, and health promotion, with a particular focus on prevention and early intervention in mental health. Dr. Kelly-Ann is an associate professor and Educational and Developmental psychologist in the School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. She is also an honorary principal fellow at the Centre for Wellbeing Science, MelbourneGraduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Academia needs more gentle academics.- Principle 1 be upfront and honest about the things you do not know.- Principle 2 acknowledge the intrinsic value of others knowledge bases even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context.- Principle 3 do not feign mastery where you have none.- Principle 4 respect the gaps in knowledge of others.- Principle 5 be generous with others be kind.- Principle 6 be generous with yourself.- Principle 7 you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimising a culture of overwork.- Principle 8 privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy.- Principle 9 nothing is ever neutral or apolitical.- Principle 10 support the progress of other scholars.- Principle 11 collaboration over competition enacting academic method writing through collaborative authorship.- Towards a future of gentle academics policy practice and patiences.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	collaboration in higher education • gentle academic principles • Gentle, kinder academia • higher education • Reimagining the University sector • university level belonging • university level connection • university level mental health
ISBN-10	981-95-4083-6 / 9819540836
ISBN-13	978-981-95-4083-9 / 9789819540839
Zustand	Neuware