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Supervisor bullying in academia is alive and well, writes Timothy Ijoyemi (2021) in Times Higher Education. “The arrangements that trap PhD students in toxic relationships with abusive supervisors mus...

How to bully-proof higher education organizations – article digest. Zoé Ziani (2022) sheds light on why higher education is fertile ground for bullying behavior – and offers several suggestions for ho...

The case for policy reform in Canadian higher education to curtail supervisor bullying of students and postdoctoral researchers is easy to make. Reform itself is easy to implement.

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Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

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Looking for guidance on how to recruit an external examiner for your doctoral thesis? You've come to the right place. We will cover here how to choose a PhD external examiner.

So you want to recruit interview participants for your master's or doctoral thesis as part of data collection. You've come to the right place.

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The Dialectics of Empowerment and Exploitation of Using Social Media – A Review Article by Baha Abu-Shaqra, University of Ottawa, Canada OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in C…

The case for policy reform in Canadian higher education to curtail supervisor bullying of students and postdoctoral researchers is easy to make. Reform itself is easy to implement. The point of ref…

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Jacques Frémont, recteur de l’Université d’Ottawa, a refusé de s’engager à mener une enquête interne approfondie ou d’envisager des réformes politiques à la suite d’un…

How to choose a PhD external examiner: the steps. What you need to know. What to expect. Tried and true tips and templates. I obtained my PhD in Digital Transformation and Innovation in April 2020 …

DTI uOttawa – What you need to know. What they don’t tell you. An objective review of the University of Ottawa’s Doctorate in Philosophy Digital Transformation and Innovation Program…

Last updated: September 2026 How would a commercial corporation, such as a Canadian university, with about $.14 Billion in annual revenue (2023-2024) harass critics and whistleblowers? In short, by…

The First Annual University of Ottawa Supervisor Bullying ESG Business Risk Assessment Briefing (Release date: Feb. 17, 2023): An open letter to the University of Ottawa Board of Governors. Chair, …

uOttawa engineering – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa – is trying to hide a scandalous culture of supervisor bullying. T…

Standing up to a persecutor is tough, particularly if they are your supervisor. But you can take steps to report abuse and protect yourself.

Karl Weick developed the knowledge management theory of organizing in the 1960s, presented here with emphasis on its empirical application in organizational case studies exploring sensemaking throu…

Zoé Ziani (2022) sheds light on why higher education is fertile ground for bullying behavior – and offers several suggestions for how to bully-proof higher education organizations. You may als…

The arrangements that trap PhD students in toxic relationships with abusive supervisors must be reformed – here’s how, says Timothy Ijoyemi

Use this framework to perform a technoethical assessment and a systematic literature review for an emerging technology based on Mario Bunge’s technoethics to inform ethical decision making an…

The technoethics of Mario Bunge is explained here. In his 1975 foundational essay Towards a Technoethics, Mario Bunge presents a technoethical pragmatic value theory discussed here as an ethical de…

The mercenary spyware industry develops and sells advanced tools that can covertly gain complete access to a cellphone’s microphone, camera, messages, photos and historical data – all without its user...

Canada is a society where all people are equal and where they share some fundamental values based upon freedom. The search for this Canadian identity, as much as my philosophical views, had led me to ...

In this day and age, privacy laws are not worth the paper they're printed on. Neither Big Tech nor the deep state respect your privacy.

TNR undermines national security, state sovereignty, the safety and human rights of victims, and principles of international law. It has a chilling effect in our countries.

A brief description of the various literature review types, including critical, systematic, mapping, scoping, and umbrella reviews, with open access examples. Literature review Critical review Syst…

How to write the case study methodology chapter of your MA/PhD thesis. The following discussion explains the case study methodology – more specifically, the qualitative exploratory case study…

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This post covers the background needed to understand the key cybersecurity compliance frameworks and industry standards recommended or required for organizations to implement to protect critic…

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Navigating the world of information technology can often feel like exploring a vast, complex city without a map. This post is designed to be your guide, providing a clear and structured overview of…

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My uOttawa PhD thesis, titled Technoethics and sensemaking: Risk assessment and knowledge management of ethical hacking in a sociotechnical society, completed in 2020 …

Do you want to know how to apply the scientific method in research? This discussion of the scientific method in research covers the philosophical foundations and historical roots of the scientific …

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This discussion of Canada’s cybersecurity threat landscape is taken from a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020, pp. 1-16) completed at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), F…

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The University of Ottawa has updated its academic regulations pertaining to master’s and doctoral theses (Academic Regulation II-7 Theses) and it’s bad news for current and prospective …

Last updated: September 2026 How would a commercial corporation, such as a Canadian university, with about $.14 Billion in annual revenue (2023-2024) harass critics and whistleblowers? In short, by…