Questions tagged [abuse]
Cruel and/or violent mistreatment of a person or animal in researches or academic places.
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Is this psychological abuse? Should I switch supervisors?
I am in the third year of my four year PhD, which is funded by the department. My supervisor a week and a half ago called a meeting with me, after an email complaining about sending off an updated ...
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Advisor doesn't let me graduate and prevents me from working
Posting for my friend
Brief background:
I am in the middle of my 4th year PhD at a US university. I opened up a new direction for the lab, which led me to 2 impactful publications and 1 manuscript ...
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Advisor manipulated/threatened me into sharing my first authorship
My last Phd work was submitted to a high impact journal (IF >35). The manuscript came back for revision with 2 positive comments and 1 no-suggestion on my last day in his lab. Given its positive ...
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How prevalent are abusive advisors?
I have read lots of posts here about abusive advisors, and I have heard about and even experienced some similar experiences in my own academic life.
Is there any data available for how prevalent this ...
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Abusive supervisor & academic career
I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics in the UK, and now start my 4th and hopefully final year of the program.
I currently consider changing my supervisor (SV hereafter) because of an ongoing conflict. ...
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Pre-tenure faculty - should I ignore all possible troubles to get tenured?
I'm a tenure-track assistant professor who started in this fall. I heard that I should not get involved in any issues or conflicts to get tenured. However, I am unsure about this situation.
I was in ...
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Need help — Principal investigator with abusive behavior
I am doing a postdoc with a principal investigator (PI) at an American university. Research is going great, with three publications in one year.
But the PI has serious issues. I would say he is a ...
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Should I hide certain education history on my CV/resume? [duplicate]
Apologize in advance if it is not suitable for this site. I consider asking this in workplace exchange, but I think people on this site are more familiar with similar situation. For obvious reasons I ...
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How to respond to potential power abuse from project supervisor?
Over the space of a now concluding 20 week long project, my appointed supervisor has made a number of questionable decisions that appear to have negatively affected my work and solidified her grip ...
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How to support students whom other faculty abuse?
Some of the students in my class take a class with another member of faculty. That other, tenured, member of faculty has taken to abusing individual students in front of the whole class. This abuse ...
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Attending a conference that my abusive ex-supervisor is also attending, how I should react?
I am going to attend a conference as I have been selected to a voluntary position and it is mandatory to meet up with the organizers. At this conference, my abusive ex-supervisor is chairing sessions ...
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Am I being exploited by my supervisor?
It has been 4.5 years since I joined as a PhD student.
My supervisor asks me to draft almost all of his important emails. He will begin by briefing me the issue, and ask me to draft the email in a ...
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Lecturer yelled at me after class and refused to answer my question [closed]
During one of my lectures today, I had a question with something he did and raised my hand to ask the question. The lecturer didn’t see me, so my classmate asked me what my question was so I whispered ...
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How is student feedback dealt with for poorly teaching faculty?
I teach at a teaching university. Research is not a priority. I'm new to the university and am teaching full-time. I believe I've developed a rapport with the current cohort of senior students.
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exam/teaching culture, possible abusive supervisor, research gatekeeping
Apologies for the length, I don't know how to make this shorter. I also don't know where else to turn for advice. :(
I've recently started an MA in what promises to be a brand new humanities ...
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How to deal with an abusively condescending professor?
I am a beginning graduate student in Mathematics. I have a professor who always brings up the fact that my GPA is not great in my undergraduate degree even though my performance is above the norm in ...
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Professor's weird behavior
I have just started a thesis-based masters degree.
My supervisor has asked me to help with another student's project. So I am working with another student of my supervisor. We work together and ...
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What to do when you hear many bad stories about your supervisor on the first day of your PhD?
Today was the first day of my PhD. It's a very prestigious institution and I was extremely excited to start. However, it seems there is a general feeling of discontentment with people in the group and ...
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Can I use the term 'abuse' if someone submits five papers to a conference?
During my career as a researcher, I have attended many high-quality conferences in my research field and presented papers. In general there are some rules about the number of papers accepted which ...
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Should I let my former undergraduate advisor know that my PhD advisor was abusive?
18 months into my PhD (after I had passed my quals), my advisor became so emotionally abusive and bullying that I had to take a semester off (I was already dealing with diagnosed depression). While I ...
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How to stop sexual harassment by teacher? [closed]
I'm a student in India. My music teacher was kicked out of the school about 1 month ago due to sexual misconduct.
Today, he messaged me on Instagram with a fake ID and started talking nastily to me ...
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How should I handle an abusive research mentor as an undergrad?
The professor I do research with often puts me down for making mistakes and frequently calls me an idiot. I don't know the appropriate way to respond. I cannot just leave, since I still want to go to ...
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What should I do about a professor who got in my face and yelled at me?
I'm a lab assistant at my university and one day some of my coworkers who are underclassmen asked me about my experience with a professor I had taken a couple classes with. I told them that every ...
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Should I resign if my research advisor verbally abuses me?
Summary: Supervisor is verbally abusive on a regular basis. He may be trying to sabotage me by delaying the annual report on which my funding depends. Should I quit or stick it out?
Details:
I ...
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Dealing with unsupportive committee / adviser after completion of Ph.D.?
I finished a humanities Ph.D. about a year and a half ago, with an exceptionally unsupportive committee and dysfunctional department. I've had some short-term contract/freelance work since, but my ...
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Graduate Program Director Congratulating Me on Failing Comprehensive
This was a few years ago now. My PhD program had two exams. The first I passed with high marks the second I failed.
I did not really know who to talk with about this. It is common in my program for ...
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What can I do if a student in my lab threatens to tell lies about me, and my advisor doesn't want to fire her?
I'm doing my Masters right now and I am a new lab member (I've been there for just 4 months). A undergrad student didn't like it when I told her to follow biosafety rules when handling dangerous ...
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What should I do when I would like to move to a new lab because my current PI is abusive? [closed]
I started to work in a Lab as a Researcher 4 months ago, with the prospect of being a PhD student. This Lab carries out research topics I am interested and passionate about but when I started there ...
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How to deal with an abusive advisor?
I am a graduate student in mathematics. I've been having a difficult relationship with my advisor, and I need some help on the matter.
Some background
When I just started my graduate studies, my ...
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Lecturer ridiculing me in front of class for making a mistake
The situation is, that I have a B.S. from computer science and I was awarded for my final thesis. Because of this I was offered a position in research, where I'm working for the 3rd month now.
My ...
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Anonymous Student Feedback: Moving forward from abusive comments
I'm looking for some guidance from some senior/experienced academics situated in the teaching space.
As a relatively new lecturer (though I have some experience in lecturing in the past) I'm always ...
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Is there a lack of oversight of how professors interact with students?
Why does there seem to be a lack of oversight when it comes to how professors interact with students?
For example, consider the following questions:
How to deal with an advisor who wants a "...
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Trauma affected my grades while in undergrad, how will it affect me getting into graduate school?
I was traumatized by an abusive relationship. While in the relationship, my grades were affected. Out of the relationship, I chose to stay in school and struggle with my studies instead of medically ...
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How will expulsion for physical abuse and sexual misconduct affect a student's future educational career?
I recently had a university student (my ex) expelled from my undergrad university when he was found responsible for physical abuse and sexual misconduct. How would this expulsion affect his future ...
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Unable to defend and graduate because of advisers fickle mentality
I am an international student at a US university and I have a fantastic, caring and supportive adviser who I find fosters a happy work environment for all his students to grow in.
Here's the drawback ...
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What to do if one has had an unsuccessful PhD (because of others' fault)?
I was talking to a friend of mine, and he just feel in a deep depression due to finishing his PhD.
He will be defending in the coming weeks, and there is a high likelihood he will pass.
In his ...
