Together we can make a difference!

Let’s form a
Positive Academia
Collective Transformation

As Management academics, we could play a critical role in tackling the existential threats that our societies are facing by using our expertise in organizing resources and people to get things done. Instead, we seem to be stuck in an endless cycle of self-critique on the state of our academic discipline. 

With Positive Academia, we disrupt this vicious cycle by laying the foundation for an academic heterotopia through a concrete, comprehensive, and coherent re-imagination of our academic values and interactions. Discarding the convenient falsehood that as academics we are merely unwilling victims of neoliberalism and all-powerful managers; we instead embrace the inconvenient truth that we have co-created the current state of academia. 

We therefore urge all of us to take back freedom and invest our individual and collective efforts into crafting a more positive academia by joining our PACT (Positive Academia Collective Transformation).

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Every Little Action Counts in Academia

Academia does not transform overnight – it changes through the steady ripple effects of everyday choices. Every Little Action Counts in Academia is a year-long guide to meaningful micro-action that help cultivate a more positive academic landscape. Designed for educators, researchers, professional staff, and students alike, this practical booklet offers 52 weekly actions grounded in care, collaboration, and inclusion. Whether it is mentoring a colleague, citing inclusively, challenging exclusionary norms, or simply checking in with a peer, each action is a small, reflective and powerful step toward a kinder and more equitable academic world.

The Fables of the Academic Zoo

In universities across the world, academic culture is often experienced as competitive, exhausting, and isolating. Yet these patterns rarely appear as ‘problems.’ They feel natural and inevitable – just the way higher education works. The de-legitimation of dominant practices, norms, and values begins with storytelling and care. In the Academic Zoo, the lions dominate conversations, race to publish, the peacocks perform brilliance, and the ants carry invisible labor. Everyone is trying to succeed – yet together they reproduce a culture of pressure, hierarchy, and quiet exclusion.

Week 3: Identify who does invisible labor

Over the past two weeks, we’ve reflected on whose voices are heard and whose work is praised. This week, we turn to something often unseen—but deeply felt: invisible labor. Who keeps academia running in the background? Who takes notes, organizes meetings, or follows...

Visiting the Academic Zoo at KEDGE Business School: Cultivating Care in Doctoral Life Through Positive Academia

Telling the story of Christa’s visit to KEDGE in Marseille.Before anything else, I want to begin with gratitude. This experience at KEDGE Business School would not have been possible without the generosity, openness, and support of several wonderful people who helped...

Week 2: Identify what scholarly work is praised (or not)

Last week, we started by noticing whose voices are heard in our meetings.This week, we focus on something equally powerful—whose scholarly work gets recognized. What do we praise in academia? Which papers are described as “top”, “rigorous”, or “important”? Which...

Week 1: Whose Voice Is the Loudest?

Change begins with awareness. This week marks the start of our latest Positive Academia campaign—focusing on identifying the habits and patterns that quietly shape our everyday academic interactions. In meetings, whose voice is the loudest? Not just in volume—but in...

AoM 2025 – Copenhagen – Positive Academia was there

After actively building Positive Academia since 2022, we have officially founded the Community Interest Company in 2024 and successfully published, in online first, our manifesto ‘Let’s form a PACT – reimagining our academic values and interaction’ in the Management...

Particulate Matter

This research essay was written by the Green Team and presents a brief but accurate summary of our findings to aid in engagement and give practical advice on how to monitor and combat the effects of harmful environmental qualities such as particulate matter and CO2....

Study Tour 2026 – La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (1)

Although it was only a short trip, it was one of the most interesting and valuable experiences of my life - my first trip abroad without family. And this time, my destination was Australia, a vast country with many new things I had never known before. I had heard that...

Philosophical symbolic language versus Natural languages

In my symbolic system, every symbol (except one that is neutral) has an ethical meaning, directly or indirectly related to the rejection of violence. In English (or another language), if we consider the sentence “Non-violence is crucial”, the single letters included...

Changing Together – Campaign Introduction

Academia does not change by responsibilising individuals, pressuring them to work harder, become more resilient, or learn to cope better under pressure. We firmly believe in a Positive Academia Collective Transformation, in which change occurs through everyday ways of...