Topic: Ethics

Unconscious Bias training: Performativity or pushing the margins?

Tania Das Gupta

Faculty play an important role in developing and implementing anti-racism and equity policies and practices at universities. What lessons can be learned […]

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Universal design for universal access

Erika Katzman

What does it mean to truly access an academic space? According to disabled activists and disability studies scholars, universities have a long […]

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Academic freedom can’t be separated from responsibility

More discussion is needed about how power shapes access to learning and speaking in a university environment. (Shutterstock) Academic freedom has become […]

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Banning non-disclosure agreements isn’t enough to stop unethical workplace leader behaviour

Ending workplace sexual harassment means going beyond holding perpetrators to account to address a ‘network of complicity’ that enables unethical conduct. (Shutterstock) […]

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The climate crisis gives science a new role. Here’s how research ethics must change too

Claudio Furlan/AP/AAP Young people across the world have taken to the streets again, demanding decision-makers at COP26 listen to the science. But […]

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Read the student survey responses shared by academics and you’ll see why Professor Hambling is justified in burning hers

Eliza Morse/Netflix If you’ve watched the Netflix sitcom The Chair you’ll remember the scene in which Professor Joan Hambling burns her student […]

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Data science education lacks a much-needed focus on ethics

Undergraduate students need to learn the responsible use of data science as well as the nuts and bolts. Hill Street Studios/Stone via […]

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When the Government comes for you, you better have academic freedom

Marc Spooner, University of Regina

Every so often, academic freedom makes the news. When this happens, it is usually because a violation so egregious took place that […]

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Navigating the pandemic: Living alone but needing to stick together

Jeff Bale

Whether living alone or caring for others, navigating this pandemic while maintaining a healthy work-life balance has been particularly challenging. Overcoming these […]

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Academic freedom entails both individual and social responsibility

Stuart Chambers, University of Ottawa

Periodically, professors drop their commitment to objective truth to pursue political agendas. When this occurs, they become prisoners of their own ideologies. […]

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