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Holland Taylor as Professor Joan Hambling in The Chair. Elize Morse/Netflix

July 18, 2022

We have developed a way to screen student feedback to ensure it’s useful, not abusive (and academics don’t have to burn it)

Abby Cathcart, Queensland University of Technology; Melinda Laundon, Queensland University of Technology, and Sam Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology

The new ‘Screenomatic’ model can protect students and academics, while still providing useful feedback.

January 9, 2022

‘Lose some weight’, ‘stupid old hag’: universities should no longer ask students for anonymous feedback on their teachers

Richard Lakeman, Southern Cross University; Deb Massey, Southern Cross University; Dima Nasrawi, Southern Cross University; Jann Fielden, Southern Cross University; Marie Hutchinson, Southern Cross University; Megan Lee, Bond University, and Rosanne Coutts, Southern Cross University

A study asked university teachers to share some of their students’ anonymous survey feedback. The results reveal insults and hate speech many lecturers deal with each year.

October 17, 2021

Anxiety can affect academic performance. Here are 10 things parents and teachers can do to relieve the pressure

Elizabeth J Edwards, The University of Queensland

Attention control theory holds that heightened anxiety impairs the efficiency of mental processes. For instance, stressing about something can make us lose focus on the task at hand.

July 18, 2021

Our uni teachers were already among the world’s most stressed. COVID and student feedback have just made things worse

Megan Lee, Southern Cross University; Dima Nasrawi, Southern Cross University; Marie Hutchinson, Southern Cross University, and Richard Lakeman, Southern Cross University

Workplace stress among academics has long been higher in Australia and New Zealand than overseas, and research suggests the flow-on impacts on students could fuel a vicious cycle of negative feedback.

February 3, 2021

Journal papers, grants, jobs … as rejections pile up, it’s not enough to tell academics to ‘suck it up’

Kelly-Ann Allen, Monash University; Gregory Donoghue, The University of Melbourne; John Hattie, The University of Melbourne; Saeed Pahlevansharif, Taylor's University, and Shane Jimerson, University of California, Santa Barbara

The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don’t leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.

January 10, 2021

Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?

Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University

Researchers will struggle to meet universities’ expectations of engagement beyond academia until this work is better recognised as part of their duties.

July 14, 2020

1 in 5 PhD students could drop out. Here are some tips for how to keep going

Craig Batty, University of Technology Sydney; Alison Owens, Australian Catholic University; Donna Lee Brien, CQUniversity Australia, and Elizabeth Ellison, CQUniversity Australia

There is no pleasure without pain in the doctoral journey, but with the right frame of mind and supportive supervisors, the joys certainly outweigh the suffering.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. shutterstock/Piotr Wawrzyniuk

October 7, 2019

Academic freedom is under threat around the world – here’s how to defend it

Eva Pils, King's College London and Marina Svensson, Lund University

Not only do some countries perpetrate direct attacks on students and academics but the internationalisation of higher education has also created new global threats.

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