num_pages: 353
description: You Must be Very Intelligent is the author's account of studying for a PhD in a modern successful university. Part-memoir and part-expose 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...
language: English
title: You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion
publisher: Springer