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When everyone knows but no one speaks: The silence that sustains Academic Bullying
If postgraduate students quietly warn one another about certain supervisors, if early-career academics discreetly advise colleagues to avoid particular professors, if administrative staff witness repeated episodes of intimidation, and if university leaders have heard the same stories for years, can anyone honestly claim that academic bullying is a hidden problem?
A department in which everyone knows but no one speaks gradually becomes a department in which intimidation is accepted as part of academic culture.
It is this culture of silence, more than the actions of the bully alone, that has allowed academic bullying to persist across generations.
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