This is just a heads up. I have been in conversations with UOW PhD candidate Jason Nunes about his thesis and us helping him with his topic: “The Resilient Principal: A Study of Psychological Resilience, Job Crafting and the Job Demands-Resource Model in School Principals”

“School principals face rates of stress and burnout far greater than the general population. In fact principals experience rates of burnout and stress that are 1.6 and 1.7 times higher than the general population, respectively, and experience 2.2 times more sleep troubles compared to the average population (Riley, 2017, 2019). This is not surprising considering principals deal with threats of violence at work, and one-third had experienced actual violence. While there is research on interventions and strategies that focus on possible ways to alleviate the stressors faced by principals, further attention is warranted on the antecedents of stress and burnout in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms that contribute to burnout and stress.“

Early in Term 1 I will give you all more details and request that we all join in the research that has the potential to support us.