These external experts from the worlds of academia, the media, data protection, civil society and the tech sector are serving as independent advisers to Google.
With a total of 75% saying they wanted to remain in higher education, it's no surprise competition for academic jobs is tough – but is leaving academia the only solution?
This is how I have earned and now own my place in academia, regardless – or in spite of – my "feminine" appearance.
The media, one of the key channels for communicating with people outside academia, has a reputation for skewing or clumsily confusing scientific reports.
While academia can be on occasion adversarial, it is more commonly competitive and political.
Due to a lack of available research, it is unclear whether bullying is getting worse in academia, although Jamie Lester, author of the book Workplace bullying in higher education feels it is on the rise.
She achieved all of this despite problems accessing academia: she was told not to pursue science at Vassar College by her high school teacher, and, when applying for a graduate degree, that "Princeton does not accept women" in its astronomy programme.
For this reason it has been suggested that academic institutions benchmark the nature and prevalence of bullying behaviours, while providing education and guidelines designed to reinstate the more collegial culture that academia may have lost.
Between them, Whitehall, academia and NGOs have churned out enough surveys on social welfare claimants to fill a wing of the Bodleian library.
Reich famously declined to continue in academia, preferring to support himself via a series of blue-collar jobs.
A gracefully mounted but safe-playing account of Dylan Thomas's 1950 tour of American academia, it nurtures personable performances from Celyn Jones (as Dylan) and Elijah Wood (as his stuffy Ivy League minder) without accumulating much friction between them.
