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by Karin Bodewits

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Published: 2016

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You Must be Very Intelligent is the author's account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-exposĂ©, 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...

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