Category: Bias

• The Many Headaches of Interdisciplinary Training

  Academia in some countries (primarily Western Global North countries with lengthy histories of disciplinary academic departments) are now begging for more interdisciplinary staff. The reasons are fairly obvious: Relatively few staff are actually trained in interdisciplinary techniques, many staff are stubborn and refuse to learn about another field, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches are needed to…

  Merlin Star

  March 12, 2023

  Academia, Bias, Mathematics, Psychology

  Academia, barriers, disciplinary, interdisciplinary

• My Initial Thoughts on Avoiding Common Prejudices during my PhD

  I want to avoid some of the more common prejudices that folks pick up on during a PhD. While I know that I can’t avoid all of it and that much of it is systemic, I do at least want to minimize the elitism that I pick up from academia along with the anti-Indigenous attitudes.…

  Merlin Star

  March 8, 2023

  Academia, Bias, Things I am working on

  Academia, elitism, PhD

• The BBC’s Ableist and Racist Coverage of Prof. Jason Arday

  On February 23rd, 2023, the BBC did a story on Prof. Jason Arday, a Black sociologist set to become Cambridge’s youngest Black professor. Here is the link to that story so that you can read it yourself and so you have context for why I am extremely angry at this coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64717079 Let’s begin with…

  Merlin Star

  March 2, 2023

  Academia, Bias, Ethics, Neurodiversity, Psychology, Race, Racism

  Academia, Black, classism, coloniaism, Education, nonspeaker, privilege, Professor, Racism, UK, United Kingdom