You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion

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.

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…

• | Author: Karin Bodewits
• | Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2017
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9783319593203
• | ISBN-10: 331959320X