Sentences with phrase «well outside of academia»

A young, vivacious woman, she was already living well outside of academia's ivory tower.

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They're good people who are bringing a lot of the conversations about egalitarianism to the people outside of academia.
This group was invited by the BES team to ensure that BES data represents and reaches a broad range of users outside of academia, as well as within.
The reality is that very few employers outside of academia will really care or know the difference between a perfect thesis and a good thesis.
Therefore, researchers in training need to consider and prepare for careers outside, as well as within, academia because «alternative» nonacademic careers actually represent the vast majority of career destinations for researchers nowadays.
Unfortunately, the job market outside of academia is tough as well, despite the roaring economy.
Devi recommended developing an individual career plan early on in your career and consulting with mentors who can tell you whether you're likely to achieve your academic goals or whether you would be better off pursuing a different line of research or a career outside of academia.
If a larger proportion of the graduate student population were supported on training grants, she said, NIH could better monitor students» training and ensure broader exposure to careers outside of academia — and better training in the skills needed to perform well in those careers.
This post is dedicated to my two amazing brothers, whose unique journey to finding their respective «its» have taken them around the world, on high sea adventures, to frozen landscapes and lush island paradises, inside and outside hallowed halls of academia and beyond; two great adventurers and great minds who continue to inspire me, and keep me always striving to be my best.
Many of the researchers seek to contribute to a better understanding of adventure games (and videogames in general) outside of academia.
So, in a real sense, academia is lagging in developing ideas and it may well be that the real thrust of ideas that eventually overturn the global warming & ^ % $ will come from outside academia (or at least in discussions outwith the usual journals of academia).
I can certainly understand your «feeling very well to be outside of academia and academic culture where all this would actually «matter.»
We don't need the academics «best», what we need is the standard of qualify, accountability and general professionalism you see in the world outside academia.
Ensuring good practice, transparency, real peer - review (as distinct from «pal review») and relentless criticism, and a disposition to revise previous conclusions (even conclusions oneself has reached in the past) in the light of new evidence, are necessary requirements for science to progress, and at the same time gain the trust of those outside the hallowed halls of Academia, or at least the most educated section of them.
I emerged with my B.A. (Bugger All) in hand, but more importantly, I emerged from the process with a heightened understanding of human nature, both from a theroretical perspective as well as from an experiential perspective regarding the «indoctrination», as I describe it, of students» brains by some profs. who were hell - bent on creating new disciples of their own personal theoretically defined world views (sans any offsetting real life experience outside of the hallowed halls of academia).
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