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,...

When Karin enters a high-ranked university to start her PhD she is brimming with hope and positively overflowing with grit determination to prove she is worthy. After all, she knows that only the extraordinarily learned and the astonishingly intelligent ever hold chairs and professorships... She knows researchers are idealists yearning to enrich the stock of human knowledge… She knows university is the apotheosis of civilised culture… She knows… very little…

This book is a self-management guide and personal workbook for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and principal investigators. It contains theories and exercises around time-, life-and career-management that has been specifically adapted to natural-and life scientists.The exercises will show you where your time goes and how to effectively find more time for the things you like to do. It will help you to carefully design your life, guided by your personal-, friends- and family missions....

In Deutschland schließen inzwischen ebenso viele Frauen wie Männer ein naturwissenschaftliches Studium ab. Welche Karrieremöglichkeiten stehen ihnen offen? Wie begegnen sie der sehr realen Gefahr der Altersarmut durch Stipendien und befristete Anstellung? Und wie schaffen sie es, Familie und Beruf miteinander zu vereinbaren? Karin Bodewits, Andrea Hauk und Philipp Gramlich zeigen in diesem etwas anderen Karriereführer, wie Naturwissenschaftlerinnen die Widrigkeiten des Berufseinstiegs meis...