TY - JOUR

T1 - Managing Research Environments

T2 - Heterarchies in Academia. A Response to Cumming

AU - Fischer, Joern

PY - 2016/12/1

Y1 - 2016/12/1

N2 - The first stereotypical academic environment – the ‘guru model’ – is strongly hierarchical but not highly networked. This environment is one of strong silos, such as relatively isolated laboratory groups. Each such lab group is headed by a professor (the ‘guru’) and responds to a dean or head of department. In this environment, hierarchy is also pronounced within lab groups. Postdocs occupy places between professors and PhD students, acting as intermediaries, or perhaps de facto supervising PhD students (very possibly without receiving official credit for it). In this environment many individuals work on different projects. Exchange among them is not strictly necessary and remains limited–that is, even within the lab, there is no strong culture of lateral collaboration (e.g., among PhD students or among postdocs). The overall environment is competitive and, arguably, some very successful professors have organized their labs in this way.

AB - The first stereotypical academic environment – the ‘guru model’ – is strongly hierarchical but not highly networked. This environment is one of strong silos, such as relatively isolated laboratory groups. Each such lab group is headed by a professor (the ‘guru’) and responds to a dean or head of department. In this environment, hierarchy is also pronounced within lab groups. Postdocs occupy places between professors and PhD students, acting as intermediaries, or perhaps de facto supervising PhD students (very possibly without receiving official credit for it). In this environment many individuals work on different projects. Exchange among them is not strictly necessary and remains limited–that is, even within the lab, there is no strong culture of lateral collaboration (e.g., among PhD students or among postdocs). The overall environment is competitive and, arguably, some very successful professors have organized their labs in this way.

KW - Ecosystems Research

KW - Environmental Sciences & Ecology

KW - Evolutionary Biology

KW - Genetics & Heredity

KW - Ecology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84997207676&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.010

DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.09.010

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

C2 - 27771143

AN - SCOPUS:84997207676

VL - 31

SP - 900

EP - 902

JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

SN - 0169-5347

IS - 12

ER -