I have no issues with working class English academics and sadly the bias against them is very powerful. I am not convinced what is keeping them out is my aversion to an environment with unlimited alcoholic beverages though.
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Equality of treatment amongst / between people regardless of perceived 'rank'. PhD students will talk to professors very informally, relaxed, without titles etc. much as they would to another PhD student
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Ah, I would call that no hierarchy but yeah, got you. So, we must be in very different fields as that is certainly not the case in my field.
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Ecology - and every other discipline with 'fieldwork' and few connections to industry tends to be at the extreme end of it - no enforcement of corporate paradigms through industry transfers and living with your boss camping in tents for weeks really breaks down boundaries hah
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But even in those fields it's much more profound in the UK than elsewhere (US, Germany)
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Here in austria I can talk casually with professors but I wouldn’t say I’m friends with the majority of my colleagues, which is very different to the UK or NZ
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