The phrase "a network of academic" is not complete and requires additional context to be fully correct in written English.
You can use it when referring to a collective group of academic professionals or institutions that are interconnected in some way.
Example: "The conference aimed to establish a network of academic researchers focused on climate change."
Alternatives: "a community of scholars" or "an alliance of academics."
They have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a network of academic departments, thinktanks, journals and movements.
These have been distilled over the past three years by a network of academic and industry scientists, clinicians and regulators called COST Action BM1402: MouseAGE.
Reaching the top of the scientific hierarchy increasingly depends on a glittering media profile, publishing in "trophy journals" and cultivating a network of academic frenemies who are treated as close allies until they become obstacles in the path to academic glory.
The treatment of the young rapper has been seen as a test of Morocco's willingness to tolerate dissent and King Mohammed VI's promise of a peaceful revolution through constitutional reforms, Allison L. McManus wrote on Jadaliyya, a Web site produced by a network of academic writers associated with the Arab Studies Journal at Georgetown University in Washington.
Officially, a network of academic advisers who meet weekly with each student, resident deans who live in the dorms, and tutors and counselors keep a close eye on students who rack up absences, botch assignments or appear socially or emotionally adrift.
The Natural Experiments for Translation in Diabetes (NEXT-D) Study is a network of academic, community, industry, and policy partners, collaborating to advance the methods and practice of natural experimental research, with a shared aim of identifying and prioritizing the best policies to prevent and control diabetes.
Here in northeastern Thailand, at least 164 lower-level sympathizers are in prison, according to the People's Information Center, a network of academics sympathetic to the red shirts.
A network of academics from around the United States – including two Cornell wind energy experts – are proposing an 'energy-water corridor' along the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to Dr Linda Hartling at Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a network of academics and activists studying humiliation in an attempt to eradicate it, there are two types: injury to honour, and injury to dignity.
The group studied the problem with the assistance of J-PAL, a network of academics who use randomized evaluations to answer questions around poverty alleviation, and raised seed money from the Kingdom Foundation.
Whereas the site formerly touted technologies such as wind, solar and geothermal energy as a replacement for sources such as coal, oil and natural gas, the department's website now focuses on renewable energy's potential to create jobs, according to the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a network of academics and nonprofit groups that has been monitoring federal websites.
