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You Must Be Very Intelligent The PhD Delusion

Biography / Memoir
By: Karin Bodewits(Author)
339 pages, 20 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
You Must Be Very Intelligent
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About this book

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…

You Must Be Very Intelligent 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…

Contents

Dedication
Foreword
Prologue

Part I: Before
Part II: Year 1
Part III: Year 2
Part IV: Year 3

Epilogue

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Biography / Memoir
By: Karin Bodewits(Author)
339 pages, 20 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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