University Mental Health Day: the weight of expectations

Bring awarded a prestigious University Senior Learning & Teaching Fellowship should have been a great honour - and it was. Trouble is that the same university awarding me the Fellowship, had made me redundant precisely one week before (refer 'Unwilling Star of a Campus Horror Story' The Australian Higher Education Supplement 13 June 2012). The subsequent farce through the industrial relations system was sufficient to drive me to the brink of suicide. So the evidence demonstrates that some universities are more than happy to create, promulgate, encourage and perpetuate workplace stress and mental illness - even beyond the workplace itself.