Digital scholars in a mobile world: exploring work-life balance in increasingly digitised academic environments: Post-event report of one-day symposium held at the University of Hull 14th December 2016

This post-event report summarises the outcomes of a one-day symposium organised by Dr Josef Ploner and Dr Anastasia Gouseti, Univeristy of Hull, and was funded by the UK Balance Network (EPSRC). The symposium brought together experts from different disciplines undertaking research in the largely overlooked area of work-life balance in academic/HE settings. The symposium provided a platform to critically explore how increased mobility (physical, social, virtual) affects lifestyle choices and career trajectories of both early career and established academics, and to examine how the use of digital technologies characterises and permeates their professional lifestyles, identities and work-patterns. Besides sharing current and ongoing research into work-life balance within academic contexts, another key aim of the symposium was to build a collaborative network of core researchers in view of future research activities and the dissemination of outputs among academic and other relevant professional communities