The phrase "academic with an" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type of academic or a characteristic related to an academic context.
Example: "She is an academic with an impressive publication record in her field."
Alternatives: "scholar with a" or "educator possessing an".
Warwick University is about to announce the first academic with an explicit brief to engage a wide audience with philosophy.
Olivia Grant, chairman of Newcastle University's governing body, said: "Chris Brink is an outstanding academic with an international reputation in higher education.
Crick is a talkative academic with an irritating laugh, and Watson is an arrogant and lonely young American on the make, happy to have escaped the Mid-West, not too happy about alien Europe.
On the advice of her husband David, an academic with an interest in cross-border health-care, she decided to see if her local health board would pay for her surgery at a Belgium hospital.
Forget used car salesmen, network political pundits or celebrities who endorse all-in-one incontinence/denture and hemorrhoid solutions; is there anyone who could possibly fall lower on the believability scale than a Palestinian academic with an Israeli passport who makes a living sitting in Paris sniping at Americans?
However, academics who publish journal papers from their monograph may spread their citations across more papers and hence reduce their h-index; that is, an academic with an h-index of 30 will increase that by publishing one paper that receives 32 citations, but not by publishing two papers that are cited 16 times each.
An outstanding academic with a gift for experimentation, he also worked with Donald Campbell's team on the Bluebird car and boat projects.
AN AFRICAN academic with a coiffed mane is sipping coffee in a Ghanaian airport when he spots a pulpy Nigerian film on an overhead screen.
An activist and academic with a PhD from Stanford University, Koo also offers commentary and analysis on South Korea for the New York Times and BBC Radio.
Mr Sudibyo is an academic with a clean slate but some questionable friends.
Eagleton, an academic with a colourful turn of phrase, went further than mere questioning.
