You Must Be Very Intelligent - ENG
The Phd Delusion
| ISBN: | 9783319593210 |
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| Formato: | Page Fidelity |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Editorial: | Springer Nature |
| Tema: | Ciencia |
| Subtema: | Ciencias de la Vida general |
| Año de publicación: | 2017-07-03 |
You Must be Very Intelligent is the author account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-exposé, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which underpins competition in twenty-first century academia. This witty, warts-and-all account of Bodewits´ years as a PhD student in the august University of Edinburgh is full of success and failure, passion and pathos, insight, farce and warm-hearted disillusionment. She describes a world of collaboration and backstabbing; nefarious financing and wasted genius; cosmopolitan dreamers and discoveries that might just change the world… Is this a smart people world or a drip can of weird species? Modern academia is certainly darker and stranger than one might suspect…  This book will put a wry, knowing smile on the faces of former researchers. And it is a cautionary parable for innocents who still believe that lofty academia is erected upon moral high ground…










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