Nadia Arghash

Queen's University | QueensU · Faculty of Education

The decrease in well-being of school leaders has become an area of concern among scholars and practitioners around the world. Globally, increasing social, political, economic, educational, and professional demands faced by school administrators have led to an unmanageable workload, stress, burnout, and a lack of work-life balance. However, some pri...

With research pointing to increased levels of stress and work demands on school leaders, attention has turned to examining the factors that contribute to their well-being. Studies have also shown that many school administrators not just survive but also thrive in their work and succeed despite work-related challenges. Furthermore, some principals e...

School leaders in Canada face increasing social, political, economic, educational, and professional demands, which often lead to increased workload, stress, burnout, decreased well-being, and lack of work-life balance. Research demonstrates that school principals with high levels of resilience are better at coping with stress and crisis, are genera...

The Role of Leaders in Ensuring Student Thriving Institutions of higher education foster tomorrow's generation of leaders, innovators, and creative thinkers. Attending to students' well-being, which encompasses all aspects of positive being and functioning, is not a responsibility that institutions merely choose to take on, but rather is "the funda...

The current wellness crisis among graduate students calls on institutions of higher education to act and advocate for student thriving. While existing research on human thriving provides insight into how this experience of positive functioning can be understood across the lifespan, what it means to thrive within graduate programs—and by extension,...

The purpose of this mixed methods study is to investigate and understand how the notion of student thriving can be conceptualized and understood within the context of post-secondary graduate studies. While existing research on human thriving provides insight into how the notion can be conceptualized and understood across the lifespan, student thriv...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which graduate students within two similar sized programs in education and health studies report self-determination and thriving in their graduate program. This study utilized a two-phase sequential explanatory mixed-methods methodology combining fall and spring questionnaire collection (n=...