Bridging Theory and Practice in Preventing Occupational Burnout

About this event

BURNOUT: What is it? Why does it happen? How can we treat and prevent it in academia?
This webinar will provide an overview of the empirical and theoretical knowledge on burnout in general and the practical viewpoint of a certified life, stress and burnout coach specialised in academic envronments.

Prof. Irina Guseva Canu is Head of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at Unisanté Lausanne. Her research interests include workers' mental health, the health of public transport workers, exposure to nanomaterial and particle exposure, and occupational cancers.

Özgün Ünver, PhD is a certified life, stress and burnout coach working with academics around wellbeing, mindset, and burnout prevention/recovery. She has a PhD in social policy, a strong interest in psychosocial wellbeing in the workplace, and a passion for normalising mental health-related conversations in every aspect of our lives.

Dr. Simone Lackner will moderate the webinar grew up in a family-run Viennese cafe, where she was exposed to people with diverse cultures, attitudes and belief systems. To understand the nature of being human, she explored the capacity of emotions as an actress. Her thirst for (self-) knowledge was not satisfied. She built her bridge from art to science. As a first generation and female academic, Simone has succeeded to establish herself as a multidisciplinary scientist, with a degree in Molecular Biology, a Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience and postdoctoral training in Complexity and Computational Social Science. She worked in eleven different institutes, across five different countries (Austria, Singapore, USA, Japan, Portugal), where she planned, implemented and managed a variety of complex technology- and data-driven interdisciplinary research projects. As a ReMO Ambassador for Wellbeing in Academia and the founder of Soapbox Science Lisbon, Dr. Simone Lackner is an empathic advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and wellbeing in academia and beyond. Currently, she is curating her scientific, technological and emotional discoveries into artistic projects that should provoke public engagement and educational discourse to nurture empathy and preserve human dignity in our automatic world.