1. Dr Kathryn Sutherland Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kathryn.Sutherland@vuw.ac.nz DEVELOPING SCHOLARLY HABITS (DSH) - FINDINGS FROM THE 2010 PILOT PROJECT -

2. The DSH programme Retreat 1 in Feb 2010 Retreat 2 in Aug/Sep 2010 (Ako-funded) Mentoring Buddy partnerships Writing log Group meetings Workshops

3. Data Collection & Analysis Pre-programme questionnaires with 10 participants Follow up questionnaire at end of trimester At least 3 interviews with each participant Transcripts of group meetings/interviews Writing logs (min 4 weeks) Descriptive analysis of questionnaire data Thematic analysis of interview and meeting transcripts Statistical analysis of logs

4. Changes for the group (Scale: 1= very good to 4 = very poor) Pre - programme Post- programme Overall balance 2.42.0 Overall satisfaction 1.81.7 Overall support 1.91.6 Peer reviewed publications 10 in previous two years 27 under review by end of 2010

5. Improvements Increase in individual agency and resourcefulness Work-life balance improvements Increase in relational agency Growing awareness of body’s and mind’s needs

6. Being on the programme gave me an incredible boost of confidence at what I suspect I will look back on as a crucial stage in my career. I just wish programmes like this were ongoing. [The retreat] has been very helpful, because I think the university environment is one where you are supposed to demonstrate ability all the time and what has been really useful here is that it’s a space where that’s not on the agenda, where you have to demonstrate that you are super dynamic; that has almost been taken out of the equation. It has been very, very useful.