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Unclear standards combined with power dynamics can create problems for women researchers.
The construction of Europe after WWII sought to promote political and economic cooperation among European nations. The Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence are a testimony to this.
When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to figure out on the fly how to support scientists and their work at his school.
The ranking industry is targeting universities in Africa, which are seen as offering a new market.
We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.
One of the tricky things about researching child development is that it occurs within a cultural and social context.
Paper mills rely on the desperation of researchers to fuel their business model.
To inform university responses to online harassment affecting graduate students, artist-researchers created original artworks in response to interviews with their peers who experienced online hate.
In some cases, it can be difficult for academics to know which journals are not credible – but other times, people feel pressure to publish in these publications.
A veteran education researcher raises questions about whether educational research is actually being put to use.
The rise of AI chatbots provides an opportunity to expand the ways we do philosophy and research, and how we engage in intellectual discourse.
Harmful research practices have done serious damage to Indigenous communities and created distrust. The Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden is one way to repair that damage.
When COVID forced exams online, reports of cheating were rife and proctoring software was problematic. But in-person exams are also flawed, so now’s the time to rethink how assessment works.
When working from home, women struggled more than men to find time for the sustained effort needed to produce good, publishable research. Lack of thinking time is a problem for all knowledge workers.
Australia has world-class research but low rates of research commercialisation by global standards. The scale and cultural focus of the government’s plan mean it could have an impact on this problem.
In most countries, ignorance about how to use evidence properly to inform decision-making has led to missteps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to do better.
Government vetos of academic research reveal a worrying ignorance of the value of literature to Australia’s society, culture and economy.
Expectations that academics raise funds themselves and aim to publish in certain ‘quality’ publications are shaping research and where it is published.
Pandemic restrictions have shuttered research projects - some, for good. The consequences for science, not to mention policy and decision making, must be addressed
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Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Machine Learning, University of Sheffield
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Associate Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, University of Houston
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Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
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Deputy Executive Dean and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Queensland
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University of Minnesota
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Vice President for Research and Professor of Physics, Washington State University
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Professor of Aesthetics , Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Organisation, Lund University
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Professor in Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
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Professor of E-Learning and Dean of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Washington State University
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, Georgia State University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol