Some 2025 posts...

Academic bullying is hidden in plain sight

... And, above all, there is no mention of emails, emails, emails: hundreds, thousands of them, full of unnecessary or impossible jobs – emails telling you off for not doing said unnecessary or impossible jobs – emails undermining you in front of others – emails magnifying minor failures – or emails damning with faint or ambivalent praise. Those emails sent on Monday mornings, to upset you at the start of the week – emails sent on Friday afternoons, so you dwell on them all weekend. Emails, emails, emails incessantly scything to and fro above you, like a razor-sharp pendulum, looming closer and closer…


https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/01/academic-bullying-is-hidden-in-plain.html


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Workplace Bullying Among Higher Education Faculty: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature - Part 2
...The structural characteristics of higher education institutions make university settings susceptible to abuses of power that produce ongoing, and frequently escalating, perceptions of injustice... Faculty self-governance processes that include the nomination and election of a Chair from within a department create situations in which department leaders have limited management experience or training and have instead spent their careers in competitive isolation as they confront the challenges of publication, teaching, service, tenure, and promotion...


https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/02/workplace-bullying-among-higher_27.html

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The Peter and Dilbert Principles applied to academe


…individuals can be placed in managerial positions for which they are not competent. Thus, Peter (1969) and Peter and Hull (2011) refer to the Peter Principle, which asserts that within a firm's hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence, an outcome of this process… 

https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-peter-and-dilbert-principles.html

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The effects of long-term workplace bullying on academics
...Psychological and Emotional Effects: Workplace bullying can lead to increased stress, mental distress, sleep disturbances, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and even work-related suicide. Victims may experience a loss of self-esteem and feelings of isolation, powerlessness, confusion, and helplessness...

 https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-effects-of-long-term-workplace.html

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“My Core Is Cracked”—Bullying in Higher Education as a Traumatic Process
The higher prevalence in universities can be understood in terms of well-established institutional factors that predispose specific organizations to bullying and coalesce in HEIs. Large organizations, hierarchical organizations and public sector organizations are vulnerable to a higher prevalence of bullying...

https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/06/my-core-is-crackedbullying-in-higher.html

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Academic bullies leave no trace.
Academic bullying has recently received much greater attention from stakeholders and decision-makers in the scientific community through news coverage, actions taken against culpable lab leaders, and serious corrective measures taken by large institutions. Though some reports claim higher rates of bullying in academic than in non-academic settings, one suspects there would have been an even larger gap between the two settings if all incidents had been reported. 

https://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2025/10/academic-bullies-leave-no-trace.html