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In summary, we report methodology to integrate research and centralized efforts to address the pandemic’s impact on academics, using a gender lens and incorporating complementarity of work, home-life and wellbeing. Furthermore, the findings directly informed policies to enhance working life, particularly in new models of flexible working. An Action Plan of sustainable solutions designed to mitigate the pandemic effect focused on promotion, research, workload support, and wellbeing.

From this holistic approach to understanding academics’ challenges, recommendations were presented to the University’s Executive Board and other high-level institutional committees. These patterns were accentuated for female academics. The majority of worktime comprised teaching, at a cost to research productivity and personal wellbeing. Data from 537 academics showed that multiple challenges were experienced with most of the day spent on work and caregiving tasks. A staff survey ran from 23 September until 30 October 2020, assessing academic productivity and personal factors including caring responsibilities, wellbeing, and time spent working. The study was a collaboration between the University-wide Queen’s Gender Initiative, researchers, and Human Resources. We discuss our evidence-based approach to understanding and addressing the gendered impact of the pandemic on academics at Queen’s University Belfast, a research-intensive Russell Group UK University.

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