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A total of 18 stakeholder interviews were conducted in 2021.

A total of 34 worker interviews were conducted in 2021.

A total of 379 worker surveys were gathered in 2021.

 

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Mental Health, Accommodations, and Leaves of Absence in Academia

 
 

To cite this infographic: Mantler, J., Tulk, C., Power, N., Simkin, S., Boateng, H., Mawko, J., & Bourgeault, I. (2021). Mental Health, Accommodations, and Leaves of Absence in Academia [Infographic]. Healthy Professional Worker Partnership – Academia. https://www.healthyprofwork.com/academia/#preliminary-findings.


To cite this infographic: Mantler, J., Tulk, C., Power, N., Simkin, S., Boateng, H., & Bourgeault, I. (2021). Mental Health, Accommodations, and Leaves of Absence in Academia. Poster presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Virtual Conference, September 14-15, 2021.

To cite this infographic: Tulk, C., Mantler, J., Simkin, S., Power, N., Boateng, H., & Bourgeault, I. (2021). The Role of Gender and Precarity in Mental Health and Presenteeism in Academia. Poster presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Virtual Conference, September 14-15, 2021.

References:

Mantler, J., Tulk, C., Power, N., Simkin, S., Boateng, H., & Bourgeault, I. (2021). Mental Health, Accommodations, and Leaves of Absence in Academia. Poster presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Virtual Conference, September 14-15, 2021.

Tulk, C., Mantler, J., Simkin, S., Power, N., Boateng, H., & Bourgeault, I. (2021). The Role of Gender and Precarity in Mental Health and Presenteeism in Academia. Poster presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Virtual Conference, September 14-15, 2021.


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Click below for the academia case report!

Other Presentations

  • Mantler, J., Power, N., Tulk, C., Power, N., Ball, N. (2022). Mental Ill-Health in Academia and the Role of the Institution: Preliminary Findings from the Healthy Professional Worker Partnership. Presented at the HPW Webinar February 16, 2022.

  • Mantler, J. (2022). A closer look at the systemic influences on stress and burnout in academia. Led Seminar SFU clinical psychology graduate students and clinical faculty members

  • Power, N., Mantler, J., James, Y., Tulk, C., Young, C., Ball, N., Morton, S., Bourgeault, I., (2022). How do universities address mental health in academia? Presented at the Canadian Sociological Association Conference.

  • Power, N., Mantler, J., Tulk, C., Ball, N., Bourgeault, I., (2022). The Negative Impact of Digital Stress on the Mental Health of University Faculty: Key Findings from the Healthy Professional Worker Partnership. Presented at Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH) September 17, 2022

  • Power, N. & Young, C. (Sept. 30, 2020). Institutional Ethnography. Webinar for Healthy Professional Worker Partnership and the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health.

  • Mantler, J. (2019). Mental health and taking a leave of absence from work. Presented at the Carleton University Healthy Workplace Speaker Series, Ottawa, ON, November 21, 2019.

  • Mantler, J., Power, N., James, Y., Tulk, C., Young, C., & Bourgeault, I. (2019). “I’m a little too macho for that”: Mental health, gender, and leaves of absence in academia. Presented at the Work, Stress and Health Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 6-9, 2019.

  • Power, N., Mantler, J., James, Y., Demers, C., Tulk, C., Young, C., & Bourgeault, I. (2019). A Gender Analysis of the Mental Health, Leaves of Absence and Return to Work Experiences of University Faculty. Presented at the Canadian-Australian Health Sociology Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 7-8, 2019.

  • Power, N., Mantler, J., James, Y., Demers, C., Tulk, C., Young, C., & Bourgeault, I. (2019). How work makes us sick: A case study of the psychological health of university faculty. Presented at the Work, Professions and Occupations IV: Work and Health, Canadian Sociological Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 3-6, 2019.

  • Power, N. (2019). Psychological Health and Safety in the Academic Workplace. MUNFA Panel on Mental Health, March 14, 2019.

  • Bourgeault, I. (2018). Psychological Health & Safety of Academic Work: Examining the gendered nature of academic work and its implications. CAUT Forum for Senior Grievance Officers, December 8, 2018.

  • Bourgeault, I. (2018). What counts is what can be counted: Reflections on the academic mode of production from a gender lens. CAUT Council, November 24, 2018.

  • Bourgeault, I. (2018). What counts is what can be counted: Reflections on the academic mode of production from a gender lens. Council of Ontario University Research Planning Analysts, Ottawa, ON, June 19, 2018.

  • Mantler, J., Atanackovic, J., James, Y. Ahmed, N., Demers, C., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2018). Taking a mental health leave of absence: A pilot study examining occupation and gender differences. Paper presented at the 10th conference of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health, Vancouver, BC, October, 2018.


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Investigators

 

Nicole Power (Lead) (she/her)

Nicole Power is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Memorial University. Her research has examined health and safety in diverse work contexts including fisheries, corrections, skilled trades, high-risk work, and most recently, academia. 

 
 

Dr. Janet Mantler (Lead) (she/her)

Janet Mantler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Her research examines the role of work stress in personal health outcomes across all career stages and how to improve workplaces to have a positive impact on employee well-being.

Trainees

 

Christine Tulk (she/her) is a third-year PhD student in organizational psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her primary research interests focus on understanding contextual factors that can have a systemic influence on mental health and well-being in the workplace. She is also interested in the gendered experience of work and how inequity can shape work experiences of employees with mental health problems.

HPW Alumna

 
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Sam Morton is a feminist completing a MA in Sociology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. In her current work on the SSHRC-CIHR Partnership Healthy Professionals/Knowledge Workers, she brings a sociological perspective to the pressing issues surrounding gender and mental health in the academy. She will begin her PhD in Fall 2021 where she will examine ‘the question of the animal’ in International Development.

Christina Young completed her PhD in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her dissertation, Constrained Care: Doula Practice and Hospital Birth, examined how doulas (non-medical care providers who offer emotional, physical, and informational support during the perinatal period) accomplish their work in Toronto-area hospitals. Christina has moved on to a post-doc position at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Natasha Ball is a Communications Specialist with strong skills building collaborative partnerships. She is currently pursuing a career transition into Public Health, with a focus on the social determinants of health. 

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