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Academic Parity Newsletter September & October 2024
Academic Parity Newsletter September & October 2024 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. Our research and outreach continues to reveal the ways in which discrimination and bullying remain, as Jonathon Taylor notes, “hidden…
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Academic Parity Newsletter July & August 2024
Academic Parity Newsletter July & August 2024 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. Pieces in this issue highlight the systemic, racialized and gendered nature of academic abuse and discrimination and the requisite need…
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Academic Parity Newsletter May & June 2024
Academic Parity Newsletter May & June 2024 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. We note two important themes in this issue: first the enduring focus on bullying as systemic and second the growing…
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Academic Parity Newsletter March & April 2024
Academic Parity Newsletter March & April 2024 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every one of the speakers, panelists, participants and organizers of…
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Academic Parity Newsletter January & February 2024
Academic Parity Newsletter January & February 2024 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. We are gearing up for our upcoming conference “STEM the Bullying: Stakeholder Insights,” hosted by Wake Forest University in Charlotte, NC…
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Academic Parity Newsletter November & December 2023
Academic Parity Newsletter November & December 2023 Greetings allies and members. This issue of our newsletter includes a selection of the latest research, media and activities related to the issue of academic bullying and harassment. We are thrilled to invite you to our fourth annual, and first in-person, conference, “STEM the Bullying: Stakeholder Insights,” graciously hosted by…
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Academic Parity Newsletter June & July 2021
Academic Parity Newsletter June & July 2021 Finding workaholic colleagues in academia is probably easier than in any other workplace. Not only do academics tend to spend their free time reading an extra manuscript, writing a new paper, doing additional measurements, evaluating reports, etc. but they also often brag about it and feel proud of…
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Academic Parity Newsletter February & March 2021
Academic Parity Newsletter February & March 2021 It is more than a year since the whole world experienced a new and long-lasting challenge, the Coronavirus pandemic. While in many regions, the vaccination against Covid-19 is rapidly increasing, it will still take time before things get back to “normal”. Until then, many employees including academics will…
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Academic Parity Newsletter November & December 2020
Academic Parity Newsletter November & December 2020 In our earlier newsletter this year (May/June 2020), we discussed the potentials of racial abuse and bullying during the Coronavirus pandemic. Since then, and with the escalated number of Covid cases, world-wide, the concerns regarding other negative impacts of the pandemic, especially in workplaces have increased, dramatically. New forms…
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Academic Parity Newsletter September & October 2020
Academic Parity Newsletter September & October 2020 The word “mob” is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “to crowd around or into noisily, as from curiosity or hostility” [1] In academia, mobbing is used as a backdoor retaliation strategy for bullies to pressure targets to withdraw their complaints and/or to make biased and usually falsified…