The phrase "academic imagination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the creative and innovative thinking that occurs within an academic context, often related to research or scholarly work.
Example: "The conference aimed to explore the role of academic imagination in developing new theories and methodologies."
Alternatives: "scholarly creativity" or "intellectual innovation".
Hameed added how she was proud to have had a diverse variety of models, designers, and committee members who worked to show Cambridge is not only about academic prowess, but imagination, creativity, and fun.
In the public imagination, academics were secure in their jobs and free to punish conservative students and brainwash good kids into hating America.
Even academic historians use their imaginations to fill in the gaps and to colour in the outlines that have been left to us by those whose prejudices and selections have effectively created a schematic of what the past is.
And Claire Foster-Gilbert, a former advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of the Ethics Academy, had a blunter take: "Could we devise a model of society that did not depend on us becoming ill with our fatness?" These models exist already - in books, academic papers and the imaginations of many planning to take the road to Rio.
The transforming imagination indirectly influenced academic performance.
Studies of minutiae are cited as reasons why the academic fails to capture the imagination of the general reader.
The idea is to capture the imagination of less academic students so they stay on as learners beyond GCSE.
Research, imagination, reflection and academic freedom are giving way to a generation that tries to measure and evaluate what it cannot understand.
He also caught the imagination of many academic critics who were chafing at a modern political world increasingly caught up in image making and the various other manipulations of the powerful new media of television and electronic communication.
