February 15, 2013, by Graham Kendall

Academia is a very well kept secret

Jeannie Holstein, from NUBS in the UK, was recently featured in The Guardian. The piece starts …

“Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to experience that moment when you know the decision you have made was the right one. It came with the realisation that I was being paid, not very much admittedly, but nonetheless funded, to sit down every day, to read, think and write, and occasionally talk, freely – and about something I was interested in.” [more]

… and provides an interesting insight as to why she decided to undertake a PhD.

 

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