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Academia can ofer a wonderful career path, but the power diferentials at play in university life can turn promising careers into nightmares.
Academic bullying is ubiquitous in higher education, where extreme competition in a highly hierarchical space creates many opportunities for harassment and abuse of power.
Academic bullying is ubiquitous in higher education, where extreme competition in a highly hierarchical space creates many opportunities for harassment and abuse of power.
Academia can ofer a wonderful career path, but the power diferentials at play in university life can turn promising careers into nightmares.
From sustained put-downs to career sabotage, abuse in the workplace is common but hard to eradicate. Should employers be doing more?
Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation, including threats to cancel visas. But they can take action.
Nature investigates multiple instances of scholars on working visas experiencing abuse and salary discrimination.
The main driving force for having academic bullying and harassment is power differences that affects all disciplines
Standing up to a persecutor is tough, particularly if they are your supervisor. But you can take steps to report abuse and protect yourself.
Targets of academic bullying sometimes despair about the lack of institutional support they receive. Even when universities take a firm stance against perpetrators
"This is a case about Harvard's decade-long failure to protect students from sexual abuse and career-ending retaliation." That is the first sentence of a federal lawsuit
Accusations that Eric Lander, now the former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, bullied staff members
Amongst recent high-profile bullying and (sexual) harassment scandals in academia, many have involved perpetrators who are "star academics"
An empirical investigation of abusive supervision in academic science.
Academic bullying and harassment are all too common, and institutional reactions are often inadequate.
"I frequently vomit before going to the lab." "I wanted to become a professor, but after the treatment and behavior of my PI [principal investigator] and department
To create a truly safe, productive, and vibrant environment in academia requires coordinated and collaborative input
Early-career researchers, and particularly those who come from under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
While studying and working at top research universities, I often saw people suffering from being targets of a wide range of academic bullying
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