Continuing with our Young Stroke Professional series we have tip 5, a short but important insight for those embarking on a career in stroke research delivered by Professor Bo Wu, Professor of neurology at the West China hospital, Sichuan University on
5. Academic protection and institutional commitment
The early days:
Academic protection is essential to the
mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, researchers
should have freedom and right to choose the research field and communicate these ideas
with others.
Faculty members must be free to seek the truth based on
observation, experiment, analysis, interpretation, and publication.
As a
faculty member of professional institutions, when you express your personal
view, you should be free from institutional censorship or discipline.
As
research and educational institution affiliates, you should be guaranteed
academic freedom because the public may judge your profession and your
institution by your utterances.
You should be careful to be:
- accurate,
- exercise appropriate restraint,
- show respect for the different opinions of others, and
- make every effort to indicate that your views do not necessarily represent your institution.
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