To ask about contemporary academic lingo bingo

[GodAgainstAll]

Just started my thesis having not read a book in over a decade…wrote the word ‘agency’ which was de rigueur when I did my masters a good 15 years ago and wondered if it’s now a bit passe? ‘foreground’ was another one. Deconstructing….etc. For those who have been in academia for a long time, what are the concepts/words that are getting bandied about (rightly or wrongly) now? I’m curious if times have changed.

Yep agree. Cut the buzz words and floury language. It's the quality of the content that matters.

@Crinkle77 but I think it’s all I have! As someone once said to me: ‘GodAgainstAll, you’re only successful because you use long words’. I fear she might have been onto something…

Speak to is absolute wank, isn’t it?

So depressing that these are the same as 13 years ago or more except the post Covid one obvs

I was recently told that intersectionality is now passe as it implies that sections exist in the first place...

Floury language is presumably what you use in a thesis about baking?

Disrupt.
And - two I would rather burn small holes in the paper than see, but it seems that even in very high-scoring work in some quarters they are acceptable -
'Takeaway', used as a noun to mean the lesson learned from a practice;
Webliography

I returned to academia after 20 years in the workplace and have an ongoing Word doc with a glossary of all the crazy jargon words I come across in my reading. I’m writing up at the moment and think I’ve used about three of them in my thesis so far. Fingers crossed I get away with it. I hate jargon!

Decarbonisation
BlueGreen infrastructure

from Architecture and Planning. You are welcome.

This thread is making me think we should completely stop funding higher education.

good luck with any new research or tech development etc, oxford and Cambridge are research universities etc, all that knowledge.

Many things are 'in conversation with' (?)
Also interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary / cross disciplinary can be a hot potato...
Iterative...

Let's not have any doctors because some academics are a bit waffley.

You have your co-created intersectional narratives, and I have mine. 😛

If you're not problematising norms in the co-construction of imaginaries, can you even claim to be 'doing interculturality'??

My own thesis is as agressively jargon-free as you can get in education/sociolinguistics, but that's probably because I'm hopelessly old fashioned and believe that cultures exist.

Surely it is all about lived experience? (I do think this is an important concept but it seems to have overtaken everything).

Your discipline must be one of a matching pair with mine if you use affect as a noun because we have effect as a verb!

I'm in a science and when I started back in the 90s everything was novel - now everything is privileged. Moiety remains popular, because nobody cam find a fancier way to say "bit".

'Ontological', 'the map is not the territory' and 'identity politics' were big favourites on my fine art degree 15 years ago. Not sure if they're still popular.

So glad I studied engineering

The "in conversation with", that s also from Grand Designs, no?
And I am getting my popcorn for the "intersectional" that s out because there never were sections 😁

Ha ha yes, total spelling fail there!

Nooooo I'm sure you have much more to give. I work in the academic skills team in a university and we always advise students to cut the flowery language!

Kevin McCloud has pretty much admitted that his little 'walk and talk' summation at the end of each episode is made up on the spot word salad bullshit. He is good at it.

Came back to the thread to say "lived experience". What utter nonsense, all experiences are "lived" surely?!

Paramount....

As in "patient safety is of paramount importance"...

State of the art....

Very important when asking for money to "establish a state of the art facility"