Rudolph Desmond Parkinson

Abused Academics: International Handbook for University Dwellers Rudolph Desmond Parkinson

Academic authors, peer-reviewers, and editors are free labour; publishers sell the result of this free labour back to academics through subscriptions or open access fee ... PhD candidate is a research fellow who gets paid half or one-third of a research fellow's salary and has no career prospect ... Instead of promotion on the academic ladder, get a job with a higher salary ... Don't waste years on a PhD; get a PhD by publications ... Applying for a job? Ignore Job Title and Loyalty to University; stick to higher salary; applying for jobs is your only full-time job ... It is the number of your citations that shows your value, not your mind ... Nationality is not a protected characteristic; accordingly, a foreign academic is a moving discrimination target ... International students are treated as cash cows or academic tourists ... Dr at the beginning of your name is better than PhD at its end ... Postdocs work twice other jobs time-wise but paid for half of it ... Admin jobs have no clear job descriptions and are subject to abuse, extra work, and blames.