Very interesting to read all of your experiences and insights into work life balance issues, especially local context. Some of you mentioned increased incidents of domestic violence since Covid-19 and speculated about what could be done beyond awareness raising. There is some interesting work happening in this space here in Ireland with one University introducing of a policy for paid leave for domestic violence survivors and other higher education institutions committing to follow: https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2021/may/nui-galway-to-launch-first-domestic-violence-leave-policy-in-a-higher-education-institution-in-ireland.html
For my own institution, in addition to introducing a similar policy to the above I would like to really consider the provision and support for childcare as we currently don’t have any arrangements in place for staff and limited support for students.