Building Utopia, Part 2: Individualism, Ambition and Goal Misalignment.

Andre Marques-Smith, PhD
5 min readOct 10, 2020

A series of 6 blogposts where I offer my personal perspective on problems with academic culture from the point of view of a former early career researcher. I make suggestions on how to start combating these problems, based on my professional experience of 12 years in British academia, which included positions at Oxford, King’s College and University College London between 2008 and 2020.

Other Parts in this Series: Part 0 | Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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