Academia
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Presentations & Publications
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In the News
Investigators
Trainees
Alumna
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Findings
Report
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Sources of Data
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.
Infographics
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.
Social Media Infographics
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.
Presentations
2024
Culminating Dialogue
How academics manage their mental ill-health. Presented by Janet Mantler on June 12, 2024
How universities address mental ill-health of academics. Presented by Nicole Power on June 12, 2024
2022
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
2020
Power, N. & Young, C. (Sept. 30, 2020). Institutional Ethnography. Webinar for Healthy Professional Worker Partnership and the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health.
2019
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.
2018
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.
Publications
Bourgeault, I., Mantler, J., Power, N., (2021). Mental Health in Academia: The Challenges Faculty Face Predate the Pandemic and Require Systemic Solutions. Academic Matters, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA).
James, Y., Bourgeault, I., Gaudet, S., Bujaki, M., (2021). Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, December 21, 2021.
Tulk, C., Mantler, J., Dupre, K., (2021). The impact of job accomodations on stereotyping and emotional responses to coworker with anxiety or depression. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science.
Resources
Toolkit
Blog
Young, C. (October 7, 2020). La pandémie a aggravé les inégalités entre les membres du corps professoral, touchant davantage les femmes et les personnes à statut précaire. Policy Options Politiques. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2020/la-pandemie-a-aggrave-le-stress-chez-les-professeures-duniversite/.
Young, C. (October 7, 2020). Pandemic Exacerbates Already High Levels of Stress Among Women Faculty. Ms.Magazine. https://msmagazine.com/2020/10/07/coronavirus-covid-19-mental-health-stress-women-faculty-teachers-colleges-universities/.
In the News
Tulk, C., Mantler, J., Power, N., & Bourgeault, I. (2023, Nov). Pathways to leaves of absences in academia. Paper presentation accepted for presentation at Work, Stress and Health 2023. Virtual.
Mantler, J., Tulk, C., Simkin, S., Boateng, H. A., & Bourgeault, I. (2023, Nov). Managing leaves of absence: Applying the research. Paper presentation accepted for presentation at Work, Stress and Health 2023. Virtual.
The Gendered Nature of Mental Health Issues - Rogers TV, January 13, 2022
Press Release: New study find professional workers, especially women, report significantly higher rates of mental health distress during the pandemic. Quoi Media Group. December 8, 2021
HEALTHY PROFESSIONAL WORKER PARTNERSHIP: PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE FINDINGS REPORT. December 8, 2021
“Opinion: What your boss' mental health means for yours” Healthing.ca August 13, 2020
"‘We’re focusing on the most invisible of injuries’: research project targets mental health at work", Global News January 25, 2019
Harron, J. (January 25, 2019). Sociologist leading study on professionals’ mental health. Memorial University The Gazette. https://gazette.mun.ca/research/oh-me-nerves/.
Global News on Healthy Professional Workers project January 24, 2019
“Nipissing University professor part of landmark study on mental health” Northbaynipissing.com, October 10, 2018
“Dr. Ferguson part of large landmark study on mental health in the workplace” The NU News, October 10, 2018
CAUT Bulletin on academic anxiety May 2018
Meet the Team
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
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.
