Author(s): Karin Bodewits
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 339
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Language: English
Date Published: 2017-07-10
Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 18.8mm
Publication City/Country: Cham, Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Illustrations: 20 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 339 p. 20 illus.

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...