The demise of the first academic department dedicated to policing at the University of California has left unanswered questions about the best way to educate cops.
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Facebook grapples with balancing the privacy needs of users with needs of the research community.
The role of universities in the shameful Indian residential school system needs to be addressed. The president of one of Canada’s leading universities explains why it’s time to apologize.
When higher education is thought of as a commodity, students and teachers lose out. A new partnership-based approach can provide a much richer learning experience.
Academia is not immune to gender bias. One way to see this in action is to observe who asks questions during conferences – and men appear to ask more than women.
Never underestimate a person with dyslexia - the skills and strategies they’ve developed to survive academia can be the right fit for effective communication.
Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
Much like the printing press upset the social order centuries ago, the explosion of information online is challenging the role of scientists in society.
Some say Britain should be proud of its imperial past. Oxford academics say it’s not so simple.
After taking a class in which they give money away, students get more interested in donating to and volunteering at local nonprofits.
Now the war is over, academia has a special role to play in securing the peace.
Striking a better gender balance would be easy, but until now universities have not been paying much attention to the problem.
Leia’s little-known academic standing can help challenge patriarchal notions about gender roles.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals have distinct functions but are interrelated and requires an integrated approach from both scientists and policymakers.
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In this episode of the podcast, we take in the history of Victorian humour, why kids find poo so hilarious and whether academics should try and be funny.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today’s research funding bureaucracy. It’s time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
Tom Nichols’ book The Death of Expertise examines why the relationship between experts and citizens in a democracy is collapsing, and what can be done about it.
Co-founders Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida explain how The Conversation Canada contributes to re-working what journalism can and should do.
Students can now see if their £9,000 a year fees are going to a ‘gold-standard’ school. But how cynical should they be?
In some places, the dismal labour conditions of young academics have spurred them to unionise. Not so in the Czech Republic, where students and intellectuals lead lives of “state-ordered poverty”.
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Head of Social Impact and Senior Lecturer, Business School, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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