The phrase "academic backing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to support or evidence from academic sources or research to validate a claim or argument.
Example: "The proposal was strengthened by the academic backing provided by several peer-reviewed studies."
Alternatives: "scholarly support" or "research foundation".
We just say that it works". Claxton thinks he knows why teachers are so enthusiastic about an approach that has little academic backing.
Armenia has the only fully accredited American university in the former Soviet Union -- the American University of Armenia, which has the academic backing of the University of California system; the most sophisticated high-tech base in the region; and for good or ill, the highest growth in commercial and residential real estate.
Today, with his practical knowledge from the polytechnic and the academic backing of his degree, Kevin ranks high on employers' lists.
Two new companies, both with heavyweight academic backing, are betting on it and have started or are planning to start performing telomere tests for the general public this year.
They don't have the academic backing that BLM does.
We no longer have the time to engage in frivolous academic back and forth.
However, in Barnard's novel, set in a remote Australian university, the academic back-stabbing was literal, not figurative.
Maybe that's the real story here: the debate was not an old-fashioned, academic back-and-forth about the etymology of a well-used word going back centuries; it was a lively and immediate exchange about a current piece of hip hop slang.
People who didn't go there may beg to differ, but this week Harvard proved that it is undoubtedly a world-beater in one discipline: academic back-stabbing.On February 21st Harvard's president, Larry Summers, announced that he is stepping down after just five years in his job, making him the shortest-serving president since Cornelius Felton, who died after two years in office in 1862.
Ogoshi and her supporters acknowledge that men in junior positions face much of the same arbitrary treatment and academic back-stabbing.
Other British academics backing the plan come from Sheffield, Warwick, London, Stirling, Essex, Manchester and de Montfort, and economic thinkers from 35 nations are represented in the list of signatories.
