Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Why ethics, why now?Academics, teachers in higher education and researchers in general, tend to view ourselves as having entered this profession out of love for our subject matter (in our case, languages and linguistics), and a passion for knowledge and for sharing that knowledge with others.Yet, academia has, a little too often in the past few years, been in the news for the wrong reasons.These reasons have included data fabrication, sham papers and peer-review fraud, issues of academic freedom and freedom of speech, transgressive behaviour and cancel culture (at the individual level) as well as academic boycotts (at the collective one), but also concerns for diversity and inclusion that have generated, among others, calls to "decolonize the curriculum" from different quarters.These issues affect not only individual career trajectories but also entire fields and their subject matters, and the perception of those fields by the public at large.Moreover, they have not been limited to specific fields or countries; rather, ethics concerns are shared by and affect academics across the globe. 1 The response has, in many cases, involved some kind of sanction or expanded guidelines, spelling out (once more) the standards to which the academic enterprise should be held.To some, this increased amount of regulatory oversight might feel like an ethics 'on overdrive'.Yet, this response is justified, once it is realized that what is at stake is not only an individual researcher's ability to continue carrying out
Source: Linguistics
Author: Marina Terkourafi
Institution: Leiden University
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408247555