Managing Research Environments: Heterarchies in Academia. A Response to Cumming
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In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 31, No. 12, 01.12.2016, p. 900-902.
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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 -