The Flourishing Academic Practicing with our Head, Hand, and Heart

Part 1. Developing an Academic Identity

1. The golden thread of this edited collection
Camila Devis-Rozental

2. Knowing me, Knowing you: Developing Socio-Emotional Intelligence as a Key Enabler to Flourishing in Academia

Camila Devis-Rozental

3. Forging an Academic Identity while Wearing many hats: The 21st-Century Academic
Laura Roper and Susanne Rose Clarke

4. Great Minds Don’t All Think Alike: Considering Neurodivergence in Higher Education
Barbara Sandland

5. Flourishing in the Third Space: A Latina Immigrant Academic Between Belonging and Becoming
Carolina Machado Oliveira

6. Who Looks After Our Mental Health? Protecting Staff Wellbeing in Higher Education
Chloe Casey

Part 2. Developing the Craft of Teaching in Higher Education

7. Beyond Teaching: Understanding How People Learn
Camila Devis-Rozental

8. Enhancing Student Learning: Applying the Principles of Research-Informed Teaching in Higher Education
Martyn Polkinghorne

9. The Death of the Lecture? Innovative Teaching Strategies and Curriculum Design
Heather Ann Meyer

10. Nurturing a Positive Classroom Environment Through Positive Education
Andrea Giraldez-Hayes

11. Striving for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Camila Devis-Rozental, Rosalind Ashcroft, and Keith Phalp

12. Peer Review of Teaching: Connecting Voice to Experience
Joanna Thurston and Debbie Holley

13. The Inclusive Teaching Compass: Practical Approaches for Teachers
Sam Tresman and Melissa Helliwell

14. Promoting a Sense of Belonging in University Students: Challenges and Opportunities
Esteban Devis-Amaya

15. Peers in the learning journey: The doctoral supervision experience
Ian Jones and Parisa Gilani

Part 3. An Enabling Environment to Teach and Flourish

16. Humanising the student journey is everyone’s responsibility
Camila Devis-Rozental and Shelley Thompson

17. Everyone’s welcome here: challenging instrumentalism and championing inclusion in Higher Education
Olivia Stevenson, Siobhan Morris, and Gurnam Singh

18. Relational leadership in HE: Championing People, Purpose, and Care
Sarah Hubbard and Mark Wong

19. The Role of University Leadership in Supporting Academics to Flourish
Damien Page

20. Looking to the Future
Camila Devis-Rozental

Biography

Camila Devis-Rozental is an award-winning educator, author, researcher, and principal academic in learning design at Bournemouth University, UK. She leads TeachBU, the university’s teacher training provision, and university-wide projects related to education quality and student experience.

"The Flourishing Academic brings warmth and rigour to the question of what it means to flourish in contemporary academia. It invites us to rethink teaching, leadership and belonging through compassion, relational practice, and attentiveness to the human experience. A necessary, generous contribution to a more connected and caring academic culture."
Dr Anna Troisi, National Teaching Fellow; Reader in Creative Computing and Equitable Futures, University of the Arts London, UK.

"A compelling blend of first-hand reflections and theoretical underpinning. The flourishing academic offers insights into the value of socio-emotional intelligence; practical advice on the ‘facilitation’ of learning; and a powerful call for grounded, ‘proximal’ HE leadership. Thoughtful, accessible and timely for those in academic and HE leadership roles today."
Professor Mark O’Hara, Senior Consultant (Education), Advance HE.