Women Practicing Resilience, Self-care and Wellbeing in Academia: International Stories from Lived Experience

by Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman (Editor), Voon Mung Ling (Editor), Kiran Deep Sandhu (Editor)

Through a lens of self-care and wellbeing, this book shares stories of struggle and success from a diverse range of women in academia.

Each story highlights how these women mitigated and overcame various barriers as part of their academic trajectory and provides practical strategies for maintaining self-care and wellbeing. Taken from lived experience, the autoethnographic narrative approach provides a deeper, personal understanding of the obstacles faced by women throughout an academic career and guidance on how these might be navigated in a way that avoids self-sacrificing.

This collection goes further to illustrate the ways that higher education institutions can be more accommodating of the needs of women.

215 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2023

About the author

Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman is the Executive Dean of Research in Swinburne Sarawak. An award-winning multidisciplinary researcher driven by equity and access issues, she has been involved in transformative and impactful research. In 2020 she won the United Nations' WEP Award for the Community and Industry Engagement Category. In 2021, she received the Special Recognition Award for her contribution to education at the state-level celebration of International Women’s Day 2021 by the Chief Minister of Sarawak. In 2022 Dr Ida was highlighted in the book Sarawak Women in Scholarly writing.