April 13, 2023
Staying True To You
with Professor Narelle Lemon
Event Overview
Join us to hear Professor Narelle Lemon share her story of promotion, doing things differently, and caring for you.
Date: Thursday 13 April 2023
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm (AEST - Hobart, Australia)
Where: Join us on Zoom - Links will be sent to all registered Promoting Academic Women members.
RSVP required: RSVP to Louise.Grimmer@utas.edu.au. Louise will send a Zoom link to all Promoting Academic Women members prior to the event.
Cost: FREE EVENT for Promoting Academic Women members. If you’d like to join the Promoting Academic Women Network (it’s free!) email Louise.Grimmer@utas.edu.au - let her know you’d like to join and she’ll sign you up! Everyone is welcome.
Session Details
Staying true to you: Promotion, doing things differently, and caring for you
Delivered by: Professor Narelle Lemon
In this presentation (newly promoted) Prof Narelle Lemon shares her career story and offers some tips and tricks for applying for promotion when you like to do different things or do things differently.
You know that visual with a squiggly line that is a mess, goes all over the place and then has a slight upright trajectory? That’s my experience with promotion. We don’t often hear this side of the academic career trajectory, especially when it is aligned to being true to you and listening ever so gently to where you should be and what is right for you.
-Narelle
Visit Narelle’s Website: Explore & Create Co
About Professor Narelle Lemon
Narelle Lemon is a Professor in the Department of Education and Associate Dean Education for the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Narelle is an interdisciplinary scholar across the fields of arts, education, and positive psychology.
Her research expertise is in fostering wellbeing literacy in the contexts of K-12 schools, initial teacher education, and higher education - that is, capacity building in wellbeing and self-care of proactive action across diverse areas of evidence-based wellbeing science in order to flourish.
Narelle is interested in the lived experience of being an academic - care, collaboration, mindful and supportive practices.
She is series editor for Wellbeing and self-care in higher education: Embracing positive solutions (Routledge) that is attracting much attention and supporting the dialogue of self-care being worthy of our attention.
Narelle’s contribution to the field of education has also been acknowledged through a 2019 National Teaching Citation, awarded by Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), in scholarship of learning and teaching for sustained development of curricula and resources to support the integration of social media into initial teacher education to benefit student learning and engagement. Narelle blogs, tweets, grams and podcasts as a part of her networked scholar practices.
To learn more, visit Explore & Create Co.
Additional Resources
Free Book Download: Caring for you while applying for academic promotion
Wellbeing Book Series: Wellbeing and Self-care in Higher Education: Embracing Positive Solutions
The Wellbeing and Self-care in Higher Education series reveals the stories of those working in higher education and illuminates the constant reconstruction of identities and work practices that places self-care at the centre of the work we do. Highlighted through image and word narratives (visual narratives) are realities, the voice of our colleagues, and (re)positioning of a shift into what is possible when we care for ourselves and others.
