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Childcare and academia: an intervention [PDF]
International Development Planning Review, 2020 In this Viewpoint, we engage with the everyday politics of academia – specifically, how caring for young children continues to affect academic work and career trajectories in ways that could be better mitigated. This viewpoint piece collates the personal accounts of six development scholars who discuss their experiences of negotiating both academia and
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Abstract Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of ‘university’, and inadequate organizational forms for modern research.
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Reclaiming academia from post-academia [PDF]
Nature Nanotechnology, 2008 Post-academic science, driven as it is by commercialisation and market forces, is fundamentally at odds with core academic principles. Publicly-funded academics have an obligation to carry out science for the public good, a responsibility which is incompatible with the entrepreneurial ethos increasingly expected of university research by funding ...
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EMBO Reports, 2023 When scientists marry each other their chances of both finding satisfactory academic jobs diminishes. What can be done to help them fulfil their potential?
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International Journal of Tourism Cities, 2019 Purpose What ought we morally to do in a tourism academia dominated by metrics, quantification and digital codification? The purpose of this paper is to address this question by presenting the idea of “hyper academia” and exploring ethical perspectives and values related to hyper-digital cultures.
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On politics and precarity in academia [PDF]
Social Anthropology, 2019 Peer ...
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Academia is not a meritocracy [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2019 Evaluating PhD students by their publications may have the outward appearance of a meritocracy, but as long as students from minority groups do not enjoy the same privileges as their peers, the playing field is anything but level, argues Alon Zivony.
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The Journal and Academia [PDF]
Neurocritical Care, 2011 It is not so long ago—not longer than a century ago—that physicians started to apply a scientific method to the study of patients. Therefore, most of what we know—and make decisions on—is based on clinical observations by grandees in neurology and neurosurgery and not so much on rigorous clinical trials.
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Pharmacy, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant disruption in students’ lives through lockdowns, restricted movement, remote instruction, and mixed information.
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2017 I am touched, Chair, by the invitation to deliver the keynote address at your meeting. A keynote address is supposed to set the key for the occasion. It should be filled with wisdom and jurisprudential philosophy. However, I imagine that most of you would prefer an address that sounds more like background music – allowing you to ignore it and to enjoy ...
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