You Must Be Very Intelligent The PhD Delusion [Paperback]

You Must be Very Intelligent is the authors account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-expos?, 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 peoples 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&

Dedication.- Foreword.- Prologue.- Part I: Before.- Part II: Year 1.- Part III: Year 2.- Epilogue.

A new novel about academic life is not a ringing endorsement, to say the least. But it will make you laugh. And thats the point. (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, February, 2018)