The phrase "academic at a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing someone's role or position in an academic setting, but it needs additional information to be clear.
Example: "She is an academic at a prestigious university."
Alternatives: "scholar at a" or "professor at a".
Instead enter Coleman Silk, a 72-year-old Jewish academic at a fictitious college in Massachusetts.
"Chinese leaders face a huge headache right now," said one Chinese academic at a government research institute in Beijing.
They quote a Chinese academic at a government research institute in Beijing who says, "Chinese leaders face a huge headache right now.
The "assessor" used the name and former address of a top academic at a leading British university in his dealings with potential students.
"They have to deal with Wang before the congress, so this shows they're dealing with these issues," said a senior academic at a party policy group.
I recently heard an academic at a conference describing such theatre as a kind of plundering, in which the place is used as a resource for a spectacle.
He out-earned me – a highly paid (by measly British standards) academic at an elite university – twice over at his peak.
It was understood that Ye was speaking in his capacity as an academic at an aerospace engineering forum at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rather than unveiling official policy.
GSR was a company led by a seemingly reputable academic at an internationally renowned institution who made explicit contractual commitments to us regarding the its legal authority to license data to SCL Elections.
The catalyst for the story, in the script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is Omar Razaghi (played by Omar Metwally), an academic at an American college who apparently needs to publish or perish.
Angel is an academic at Warwick University, a researcher in the history of female sexual problems.
