Building communities in academia

• Other Authors: Aarnikoivu, Melina (Editor), Le, Ai Tam (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
• Series: Surviving and thriving in academia
• Subjects: Research > Social aspects.; Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.; Social groups, communities and identities.; Higher education, tertiary education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781837975020
• DOI: 10.1108/9781837975006
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages)

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Communities exist everywhere in academia. They are important not only for facilitating academic socialisation and generating intellectual capital, but also for fostering academic wellbeing. But how do communities come to be and how do we develop and maintai...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction / Melina Aarnikoivu and Ai Tam Le
• Chapter 2. Liminal Communities in Academia: From Research Education to Practice / Amoni Kitooke, Sally Windsor, Martina Lazarevska, Oscar Funeskog, and Samuel Holt
• Chapter 3. Co-creating graduate research communities: Reflections on designing, developing, and delivering graduate researcher-led projects / Yuqi Lin and Ai Tam Le Chapter 4. In search of a community: navigating the academic spaces of belonging as a postdoctoral fellow / Juuso Henrik Nieminen and Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen
• Chapter 5. Uncovering the journey of building a community: A story of a global network for early and mid-career women researchers / Gaoming Zheng, Mee Joo Kim, Jing Qi, Melina Aarnikoivu, Saule Bekova, Charity Meki-Kombe, Baktygul Shabdan, and Lifutso Tsephe
• Chapter 6. Invitation to an online coffee! Exploring how informal academic communities support early-career researchers' professional growth and wellbeing / Vesna Holubek and Henna Juusola OPEN ACCESS Chapter 7. Building a community for researchers to foster mental health and wellbeing / Mayya Sundukova and Olga Vvedenskaya
• Chapter 8. Tensions of aspirational activism: Developing the Research Whisperer community / Tseen Khoo and Jonathan O'Donnell
• Chapter 9. Making a beginning together: the value of collective practice / Sinéad Murphy
• Chapter 10. What if academia was not a gladiator fight? Reflections on trying to change the discourse from competition to community-building / Andrew G. Gibson and Taina Saarinen
• Chapter 11. Conclusion: Can communities be cornerstones of future academia? / Ai Tam Le and Melina Aarnikoivu.