We are pleased to invite you to:
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Title: Being Productive and Staying Well: A personal perspective
Presenter: Prof Carron Shankland
Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021
Time: 1-2pm
Chair: Prof Jim Lewsey
Venue: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/97547246689?pwd=UmIwWHQ2MHc4TUVKaGZOdFkvTGxvUT09 Passcode: 698935
Abstract:
These are challenging times for us all: our workload has gone through the roof, everything seems to take twice as long as usual (at least!), we are separated from our support networks, and the future is uncertain. Carron will talk about mental (ill) health in academia and specifically her own realisation of ill health with the goal of opening up the session up to allow everyone to share their stories and strategies for staying well.
Bio
Carron Shankland is a professor in Computing Science at the University of Stirling. Carron does teaching (undergraduate programming languages, and interface design), a load of pastoral care (tutees and project students), leadership (director of learning and teaching, which involves a lot of bureaucracy), and right now, not very much research. (Who has time for research with everything that’s going on?) Carron is passionate about inclusion in computing: she is building DiVERct: a good practice network of computing and electronic engineering departments engaged in diversity and inclusion work. She’s won awards (2017 Scottish Women's Awards for services to science and technology, 2016 Suffrage Science Award). In the pandemic and lockdown she has been staying grounded with lots of gardening with her partner Pat (they’ve been in a civil partnership since 2006). When the pandemic is finally over, she’s planning to get back to understanding the behaviour of biological systems through mathematical and computational models (ironically, models of disease dynamics).
