Universities are increasingly under threat everywhere.
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The commercialisation of universities in Kenya poses a serious threat to academic freedom.
Universities need to protect people with different ideas.
As I found, academics engaging in fieldwork research are in a particularly vulnerable position.
Not only do some countries perpetrate direct attacks on students and academics but the internationalisation of higher education has also created new global threats.
Most medical research is funded by industry, not public sources. And industry puts pressure on researchers in many ways, from guiding the research question to suppressing unfavourable findings.
There is growing concern that China is trying to use universities to silence its critics in the West.
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Professor of Modern China Studies, Lund University
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Professor of Law, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Practice, Acting Director Shattuck Centre, Central European University
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Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
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Chair professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Human Rights, University of Bristol
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Doctoral Research Candidate in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
