If Australia is going to successfully navigate its way through the “Asian Century,” we need independent centres of research excellence on China.
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The Conversation sought response from the Australia-China Relations Institute based at the University of Technology Sydney in relation to analysis questioning their research, funding and reporting.
Critical decolonisation means accepting risk of error. It means considering whether indigenous knowledge systems might contain truths that western science hasn’t accessed.
More must be done to develop mechanisms based on intrinsic motivations of committed, quality academics. It’s important to limit the harms currently being caused by rent seeking.
Populist movements are on the rise. Their supporters distrust the establishment, elites, authority and official sources. The post-truth world is a post-expert world.
Experts may be dismissed when they express values, offer advice or make mistakes. But these expectations are unreasonable and unhelpful.
Despite the claims of populist politicians, academics and experts can drive positive social change.
University professionals have a mix of views – just like the rest of society.
Teaching-only positions are perceived as second class, with few opportunities for research or career progression.
Undemocratic? Bureaucratic? The EU and universities have plenty in common.
Everything you need to know about predatory publishers.
Ridiculed and ignored in 2016, what can the ‘dismal science’ offer us now?
In celebration of academic books.
Academic analysis is often ignored – and this is an indictment not of readers, but of academics.
Cyber threats are universal. But the appropriate response may be quite different in academia from what works in the corporate world.
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
With federal support for on-campus R&D dwindling as a percentage of GDP, keeping basic research afloat is a challenge. Schools and researchers are left to try to fill in the funding gaps.
Academics are getting out of touch with the rest of society. This helps explains the sorry state of our public discourse on science.
Brexit, and proposed changes to the way research is assessed, are making Britain uncompetitive in the global race for academic talent.
Australia produces thousands of PhD graduates every year but many will find it hard to secure a university career. So we should do more to help them consider a career outside of academia.
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