| 书目名称 | You Must Be Very Intelligent |
| 副标题 | The PhD Delusion |
| 编辑 | Karin Bodewits |
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| 概述 | The author lets the innocent reader peer inside the university cloisters (like Dorothy peering behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.).It is a humorous but tragic story of postgrad life that will rai |
| 描述 | .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 stillbelieve that lofty academia is erected upon moral high ground…. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 关键词 | Postgrad life; Research laboratory; Academia; University system; Disillusionment; PhD |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59321-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-59320-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-59321-0 |
| copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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