The phrase "academic roots" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the foundational educational background or influences that shape someone's academic pursuits or beliefs.
Example: "Her passion for literature can be traced back to her academic roots in English studies."
Alternatives: "educational background" or "scholarly origins."
"Movies and Money" leaps only sporadically from its academic roots, and rarely makes the movie business any more alive -- or zany -- than the insurance business.
I never took courses in what later became my fields of specialization, but my academic roots are clearly reflected in my approach to each of them.
Dagnan-Bouveret's academic roots are evident in a large painting he made while still a student, a classical-style mythological scene with a victorious nude, her lovely backside to the viewer, raising laurel leaves while a dead soldier and a bloody sword lie at her feet in the grass.
Whether you're having trouble parsing this or not, this piece by Dan Berrett on the academic roots of OWS's governing ideology is incredibly helpful.Mr Berrett focuses on the influence of David Graeber, "an ethnographer, anarchist, and reader in anthropology at the University of London's Goldsmiths campus".
Guardian Australia understands that there was a widespread belief within the publisher that the university's decision to take the publishing house back to its academic roots was deeply personal, with members of the board told that Myers had expressed anger at MUP's more recently published works, calling them "airport trash".
It's difficult to see her step down, but I respect her wishes to return to her academic roots and am happy she will continue her work at Stanford". Under Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's direction, a committee is being assembled to conduct an international search for a new laboratory director.
Tiber's academic solution to the very non-academic problem of getting more people access to adequate healthcare has its roots in lessons learned (and taught) some 1,600 miles north of Ponce, in the lecture halls of Touro Medical College in New York City.
Zoë positions herself at the intersection of grassroots and academic work, rooted in the commitment to helping social movements use research and documentation to fuel and strengthen their work.
They do not see a need to fight orientalism in their own academic paradigms, rooted in the privileged halls of Western academia, and crushing the hopes and dreams of a postcolonial people in a minority situation again and again.
Within days of Greece's election, an academic with Marxist roots, a shaved head, and a strong jaw had become one of the world's most recognizable politicians.
As a separate academic discipline, its roots are found in mining schools that needed to consider the milieu in which minerals are sold.
