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Register now for AJE UK autumn event: Prof. Mark Deuze on Wellbeing & Creative Careers

Caroline Jones

We are excited to announce details for a special AJE event being held this autumn.

Event: AJE UK: Prof. Mark Deuze on Wellbeing & Creative Careers

Date and time: Wednesday, November 26, 2025, from 3pm (GMT)

Location: Online (Zoom) – free admission. Register your place for the event via Eventbrite HERE.

Details: 

How much do you love teaching journalism? Being a journalist? Inspiring your students who plan to follow in your footsteps into the news media? Chances are most of you would use words like love, passion, enthusiasm. 

You might also acknowledge that it is a precarious existence (in journalism and journalism education), exhausting, stressful. 

We all know journalism education, journalism and the HE sector can be wonderful places to be, but we also know they can be tough places to be sometimes, especially at the moment. 

If you can identify with any of this, then our first AJE UK event of the new academic year is definitely for you.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Mark Deuze, Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, to join us on November 26, 2025 at 3pm to talk about his new book (Wellbeing and Creative Careers: what makes you happy can also make you sick) and share with us his research into the exhilaration and exhaustion of careers in media and creative fields – and, by extension, for those of us teaching in these fields.

As well as acknowledging the challenges in these fields, Mark will also provide us with some advice and guidance on how we find balance in challenged workspaces such as these. It is sure to be a fascinating and helpful session.

We look forward to welcoming as many AJE UK members as possible and please do feel free to share this invite with colleagues in your own universities and departments who work in related creative fields.

Please register your place for the event via Eventbrite HERE. For more information about Mark’s book, please visit this Wellbeing and Creative Careers page.