Women Doing Leadership in Higher Education
Academic and Professional Services Perspectives
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Open AccessProtocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent sustainable return to work IGLOo intervention
Long-term sickness costs businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) approximately £7 billion per annum. Most long-term sickness absences are attributed to common mental health conditions, which are also highly prev...
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Women Doing Leadership
This chapter focuses on women’s leadership in HE by drawing on relevant literature and the data analysis from our study, which takes a close look at self-reported leadership activities as well as the leadershi...
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Work and Stress
Well-being issues for staff in the HE sector have become more pronounced and more recognised. In this chapter, we focus mainly on the experience of stress and how this relates to women working in higher educat...
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Case Studies
This chapter selects eight study participants (four women in professional services roles and four women in academia), outlines their individual cases in more detail and presents a cross-case analysis. The case...
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Implications
This chapter focuses on the main practical implications arising from our findings for various groups, including individual women, HEIs and managers/HR in the sector and leaders and policymakers in the sector. ...
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Gendered Cultures in Context
This chapter focuses on women’s perceptions of the dominant culture and practices of their workplaces, with a particular focus on gender equality and the potential impacts that context may have on their work e...
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Introduction
This chapter sets the scene for the book’s focus on women’s academic and professional services careers and leadership in higher education. To achieve this, we outline the research problem and what existing res...
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Women’s Academic and Professional Services Careers
In this chapter we examine women’s career values, attitudes, mobility, attempts to manage their careers and career outcomes. We assess the implications for individual women and for HE managers. The women in th...
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Women-Only Leadership Programmes: An Analysis of Aurora
Previous research has suggested that women-only leadership programmes offer valuable support for women and offer a route for increasing gender balance in senior roles. This chapter expands on this research wit...
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Intersectional Analyses
Given that not all women’s experiences working in the HE sector are the same, this chapter explores differences between women in relation to age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and disabili...
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Discussion and Conclusions
This chapter synthesises findings from earlier chapters into a discursive look at the main contributions our data have made to debates around academic and professional services women’s careers and leadership i...
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Open AccessImplementation and engagement of the SMART Work & Life sitting reduction intervention: an exploratory analysis on intervention effectiveness
To enhance the impact of interventions, it is important to understand how intervention engagement relates to study outcomes. We report on the level of implementation and engagement with the SMART Work & Life (...
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Open AccessParticipant and workplace champion experiences of an intervention designed to reduce sitting time in desk-based workers: SMART work & life
A cluster randomised controlled trial demonstrated the effectiveness of the SMART Work & Life (SWAL) behaviour change intervention, with and without a height-adjustable desk, for reducing sitting time in desk-...
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Open AccessUsing intervention map** to develop evidence-based toolkits that support workers on long-term sick leave and their managers
Managing long-term sickness absence is challenging in countries where employers and managers have the main responsibility to provide return to work support, particularly for workers with poor mental health. Wh...
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Open AccessExamining young people’s views and understanding of traffic light and physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labels
Childhood obesity is a public health challenge in many countries. Food labelling may help children make healthier food choices. Food is typically labelled using the traffic light label system but this is compl...
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Open AccessProtocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK
The cost of sickness absence has major social, psychological and financial implications for individuals and organisations. Return-to-work (RTW) interventions that support good quality communication and contact...
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Open AccessThe structured health intervention for truckers (SHIFT) cluster randomised controlled trial: a mixed methods process evaluation
This paper presents the mixed methods process evaluation of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the Structured Health Intervention For Truckers (SHIFT), a multi-component intervention targeting physical a...
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Open AccessIncreasing physical activity levels following treatment for cervical cancer: an intervention map** approach
The purpose of this study was to utilise the intervention map** (IM) protocol as a framework with which to develop an intervention underpinned by relevant behaviour change theory to promote physical activity...
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Open AccessThe effectiveness of the Structured Health Intervention For Truckers (SHIFT): a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT)
Long distance heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers exhibit higher than nationally representative rates of obesity, and obesity-related co-morbidities, and are underserved in terms of health promotion initiatives....
