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Navigating chronic illness in academia: An early career perspective

HEPI

This blog is part of a series HEPI is running with the British Academy on the changing face of academia. . With administrative, teaching and research pressures mounting in academia generally, large proportions of academics report feeling overworked and emotionally drained. Career Progression. What Works and What Would Help.

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Equitable research funding requires concerted action

Wonkhe

Inequity in access to research funding drives disadvantage throughout academia. Tanita Casci and Jenny Gladstone see the need for action at every level The post Equitable research funding requires concerted action appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Challenges Persist for Early-Career Black Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The results reflected problems that Black academics have always known to plague academia: institutional racism and insufficient support for Black ECAs that create barriers to job security and career advancement for Black academics. There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. think tank.

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Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

Indeed, one of our participants had recently left academia and another was thinking seriously about doing so. Imposter syndrome, rejection and belonging Despite the satisfaction they experienced from their career, nearly all our participants described feeling a degree of ‘imposter syndrome’ within academia.

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The Unique Digital Future of Marketing and PR in Higher Education

HEPI

Traditional marketing and PR curricula may not adequately prepare students for the fast-paced digital environment, leaving them at a disadvantage in the job market. Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry Digital marketing and PR strategies are now integral to brand visibility and engagement.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

It will need to build in more responsiveness to the forms of disadvantage that holds back intersectional communities – such as British Muslims – from participation at the postgraduate level. It has ramifications beyond the low number of this demographic who progress all the way into academia as researchers and members of the professoriate.

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Tenacity Propels African Immigrant Along Engineering Path

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It might end up causing more disadvantages in the system.” Academia, entrepreneurship, and policy are all options. “We’ve developed tools that generate tremendous data that we could eventually collect from the brain,” Nerrise said. “We We don’t explain to the layperson enough what that truly means for us to own and use that data.