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A former dean of Sydney University’s Faculty of Medicine, where I work, once appointed me to a role where I was to try and increase the news media profile of our staff’s research and to encourage them…
Globalisation has become a strategic priority for many universities, but learning to navigate in international waters doesn’t come easy.
Men are harsher critics of research that reports evidence of gender bias in STEM fields, while women find it more compelling. How can we deal with the reality when we’re biased about bias?
Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
In the Ashley Madison hack were reports of 74,468 unique “.edu” email addresses. If people chose to use their .edu addresses, what does that tell us about awareness of privacy online?
Research systems with an international approach will be best-placed to win the most accolades.
When academics come up with a viable innovation, they need to figure out the best way to protect their intellectual property if they’re going to bring it to market. Patents aren’t always the answer.
As professors, we must look up from our cosy academic debates and hear the cries around us.
The routes for academics to become professors are different in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Why is it still so common that blind people are presumed to be unemployed?
There is more to drawing diaspora academics back to their home countries in Africa than striking up individual relationships. Infrastructure must be fixed and institutional management must improve.
If all lectures are caught on camera, it will be a step change for higher education.
It’s important to reconnect management researchers with practitioners so their scholarly work is shared beyond academia.
The past three decades have seen an unprecedented explosion of activity in a new sub-discipline of mathematics: financial mathematics. The emergence of this field has parallelled the expansion of the quantitative…
A friend of mine calls me professor of genius studies. It’s a sort of slip of the tongue, as I teach in gender studies, but it‘s also funny because everyone knows that genius is not associated with gender…
Of the many things academics obsess about, few rank more highly than citation counts. We all like to think our work is at least read by our peers, even if it doesn’t actually change the world. Google Scholar…
Universities have a long way to go before they become exemplars of ethnic equality and diversity. That’s the thrust of a new report published by race equality think-tank, the Runnymede Trust. As David…
“Life is a losing proposition,” explains Mark Wahlberg’s literature professor/compulsive gambler Jim Bennett. “You might as well get it over with.” Intent on doing just that, Bennett runs up massive debts…
Postdoctoral scientists – postdocs – are the engines of biomedical research. As early career researchers, they conduct the most experiments and are responsible for sculpting how we treat disease in decades…
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Director of research training, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Associate Professor (hon) at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota
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Head of Social Impact and Senior Lecturer, Business School, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, Management, University of Tasmania
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory, Durham University
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Professor of Educational Leadership, Deakin University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW