Karin Bodewits: You Must Be Very Intelligent
You Must Be Very Intelligent
Buch
- The PhD Delusion
- Springer International Publishing AG, 07/2017
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783319593203
- Bestellnummer: 6866100
- Umfang: 356 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 17001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
- Gewicht: 553 g
- Maße: 236 x 159 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.7.2017
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
You Must be Very Intelligent is the author s 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 s 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