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Season four of You delves into the misogyny and monstrous behaviour that can lurk beyond university facades.
Boosting efforts to tackle sexual violence in Indonesian universities requires initiatives from higher education institutions, decisive actions at the state level and activism at the grassroots level.
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
Where both capacity and integrity are weak, dysfunction is inevitable.
Academic authorship was never straightforward. Now ChatGPT is making it even more complicated.
As a young child, Amy Thunig, a Gomeroi/Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi woman, moved with her family to be near her father, who was incarcerated in Adelaide. It was a difficult time, but he has taught her much.
An Australian-first study found 16% of surveyed staff at one university experienced food insecurity over the past 12 months.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
Tough feedback can shake our confidence. But there are healthy, helpful ways to process it. And yes, venting is one of them!
The pandemic lockdown added a big teaching load; female academics also found themselves having to play more of a nurturing role.
Peer review is an essential part of academic publishing, but it can be exploitative, opaque and slow. There’s plenty journals, publishers and universities can do to make the system work better.
The humanities are labouring under a culture of managerialism – could the answer lie in reconnecting old traditions to post-1960s progressivism?
From basic childhood curiosity, to fossil introductions from parents – it seems a scientist’s spark can come in many forms.
More than 40% of the PhD students we surveyed met criteria for moderate to severe depression or anxiety.
As Western and Indonesian academics continue to engage in co-operation, we should find common ways of counteracting discrimination, including discriminatory practices against the LGBT community.
New research shows that universities could offset carbon by changing some of their land to woodlands and meadows.
Working from home and performing multiple roles leads to constant guilt, which has personal health consequences for women academics.
With Congress designating Aug. 11, 2021, as Hip-Hop Celebration Day, a scholar and performer of the art form makes the case for hip-hop to become more prominent in American academe.
As a teacher, an academic cannot use freedom of speech to say something that may directly demean or intimidate a student. But as a researcher, they must have the freedom to pursue the truth.
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Director of research training, Australian National 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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