The distractions that tempt us whenever we turn on a device with an internet connection are boundless. We’re immediately bombarded with an array of apps, email and Facebook notifications, advertising pop-ups and clickbait. This sensory overload is the motivation behind ...

One of the women spearheading the push for gender equity in science will soon direct the University of New South Wales’ research strategy. Professor Emma Johnston – marine ecologist, science broadcaster and prominent advocate for gender equity – will add ...

This unusual word was borrowed from Japanese less than 20 years ago for a special out-of-focus effect that up-to-date photographers may strive to achieve rather than avoid. In Japanese, the word is written as boke, but said with two-syllables (bow-kay) ...

Another round of job cuts and changes to enterprise agreements at TAFE New South Wales have been foreshadowed ahead of the new managing director’s modernisation push. Jon Black, who stepped into the role in December last year, told Campus Review the ...

The lack of an effective metric for teaching quality is what has led to the profession being undervalued at universities, a chemistry professor in the Adelaide Education Academy has said. One of the new participants in the recently launched University ...

Patches have been put to many purposes over the centuries of the word’s use, so that they may “repair, strengthen, protect, or decorate” a surface (Oxford English Dictionary online). In the 17th and 18th centuries, they could be a form ...

Research has found that, in academia, work is life. For Academic Work/Life Balance: Challenges for theory and practice, sociologists Dr Nick Osbaldiston from James Cook University, Monash University’s Fabian Cannizzo and Christian Mauri from Murdoch University surveyed 155 early- to mid-career academics. The ...

University workforces must move away from the traditional 40/40/20 workforce model and embrace flexibility, the sector's employer association has argued. The 40/40/20 model typically allocates 40 per cent of academic staff’s workload to research, 40 per cent to teaching and 20 ...

Prefixes in English often come in complementary pairs, such as ante-/post- (antemeridian/postmeridian), in-/out- (inside/outside), et cetera. A less well-known pairing is trans- (‘across’, ‘beyond’) and cis- (‘on this side of’), as in transmontane/cismontane – referring to something situated either beyond ...

Academics worldwide have kept it real on social media this week – venting the field's underbelly in a Twitter tirade. #realacademicbios has put a new spin on the abridged CVs of the sector's workers. The hashtag is resonating with academics and making ...