Questions tagged [abuse]
Cruel and/or violent mistreatment of a person or animal in researches or academic places.
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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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Is there anything you can do when a professor discusses some of your personal concerns with other professors potentially mockingly?
I am an undergraduate student. Recently, my interest about a particular (difficult) field – somewhere between physics and maths – arose, a field that is only briefly mentioned in some lectures. For ...
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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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How can I deal with a lecturer ridiculing me in front of class for making a mistake?
I have been working in research in computer science for 3 months in the Czech Republic, and have recently changed fields to major in mathematics, also in the Czech Republic. I'm stuck with bunch of ...
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How to create an environment in which students can report teacher-student sexual harassment?
I teach physics at a community college in California. A series of female students have told me about sexual harassment by the same tenured male math instructor. Two such incidents went like this.
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Anonymous Student Feedback: Moving forward from abusive comments
As a relatively new lecturer, I'm always looking for ways to improve my teaching. After doing a bit of research around how different lecturers etc approach student feedback, a number had stated that ...
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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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Can abuse break a genius?
This question is motivated by the movie Whiplash which justifies the abusive behavior of a teacher by the future success of the student. The idea is that if a student fails to become fanatically ...
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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 ...
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