Category: Psychology

• Thoughts on deconstruction and reconstruction in academia

  I find it interesting how much of deconstruction and reconstruction varies based on what field you work in along with subfield in academia. This will be mainly written from a Western perspective, which perpetuates some assumptions that do not apply everywhere. My personal definition of deconstruction is more of a critical analysis and taking apart…

  Merlin Star

  March 19, 2023

  Academia, Autism, Mathematics, Psychology, Racism

  Academia, deconstruction, privilege, Racism, reconstruction

• 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

• 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