Taking on Academic Leadership with Care, Collaboration, and Presence   I have recently been offered the role of Vice-Dean Academic. It is a moment that could feel like an arrival, but for me, it feels more like a continuation: a continuation of questions I have been asking for years, of work done quietly and relationally, and of a life shaped as much by caregiving, grief, and transition as by scholarship or title. Much of my writing over the past several months has explored t