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Journal article
Lifelines: Reaching out in a pandemic
Journal of Global Indigeneity, Vol.5(1), pp.1-13
2021
Abstract
I was finally getting my work on an even keel when the pandemic hit. Last year had been difficult across my work and personal life, serving as a reminder that these two realms are, for many Aboriginal people in the academy, intrinsically connected (Fredericks et al, 2019). I work at the University of the Sunshine Coast as an Associate Professor in Creative Industries, and at the beginning of the year I stepped down from a leadership position to temporarily move into a research and teaching role across 2020. This move - and my more than 10 years of working from home in a previous academic role leading a research centre - should have primed me for being able to hit the ground running in a work-from-home model. Instead, when the Government released the low-contact measures, I struggled. In this article I will frame the challenges, as well as the describe the ‘lifelines’ that helped me move from feeling trapped into a functional space.
Details
- Title
- Lifelines: Reaching out in a pandemic
- Authors
- Sandy O'Sullivan (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Publication details
- Journal of Global Indigeneity, Vol.5(1), pp.1-13
- Publisher
- Bronwyn Carlson
- Date published
- 2021
- ISSN
- 2651-9585
- Copyright note
- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CCBY-NC-ND-4.0). View this license’s legal deed and legal code for more information.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99514107302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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