The phrase "academic on a" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe a specific type of academic role or context, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "She is an academic on a research grant focused on climate change."
Alternatives: "academic in a" or "academic at a".
"No one sees the barn," says Murray, an academic on a day trip.
Reza's Lebanese father Skandar Shahid is an academic on a year's Harvard fellowship.
Ucbasaran has been the lead academic on a paper, currently being peer reviewed, entitled Leading Entrepreneurial Teams: Insights from Jazz.
But as an academic on a casual contract, his only safety net had been a little saving and a lot of ambition – and now the couple's finances went "from the comfortable to the calamitous".
It could be exhausting working undercover for periods of time, always trying to keep up a cover of being a tourist or an academic on a working holiday but Sue always strode on undeterred, she was determined to give voice to the voiceless and to expose the wrongdoings of autocrats and the corrupt.
Unfortunately, a more academic, poet-on-a-theme tone undermines Murray's less successful outings.
He is an academic hanger-on, a biographer with "a book on the low end of the best-seller list".
* Our universities have ceased to be first class, because few outstanding young people want to be academics on a professorial salary far below that of an MP.
Thein Lwin, an education spokesman for the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party in Myanmar, is working with nongovernmental organizations and academics on a proposal for a new national education policy.
The result offers an intriguing companion piece to "Some Americans Abroad," Mr. Nelson's New York and London play from several decades ago that anatomizes a group of American academics on a theater tour of London.
Palestinians seeking to increase pressure on Israel dislike Johnson's hostility to the Boycott Disinvestment and Sanctions movement, which he described as consisting of "corduroy-jacketed lefty academics" on a visit to the region while mayor of London.
