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Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education

Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education

by Glen Wright (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

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Synopsis

If you think the groves of academe are all stuffiness, elbow patches and greying old men... think again. Academia Obscura is an irreverent glimpse inside the ivory tower, exposing the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of university life. Take a trip through the spectrum of academic oddities and unearth the Easter eggs buried in peer reviewed papers, the weird and wonderful world of scholarly social media, and rats in underpants. Procrastinating PhD student Glen Wright invites you to peruse his cabinet of curiosities and discover what academics get up to when no one's looking. Welcome to the hidden silly side of higher education.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Unbound
Published: 21 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 1783523417
ISBN 13: 9781783523412
Book Overview: A humorous journey into the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of academia, from the man behind the Academia Obscura Twitter account

Author Bio
Glen Wright is an academic. Sort of. Actually, he started his PhD in 2012 and is yet to finish. In the meantime, he started Academia Obscura, a blog about the lighter side of academic life. Born in the Black Country, Glen now lives in Paris, where he works for a non-governmental organisation trying to the save the ocean. Neither is as glamorous as it sounds. Glen finds writing about himself in the third person extremely uncomfortable, but is equally uncomfortable breaking with convention in his first book.