![]() ![]() The sense of being cut off from the community of those who continue to glide through the system, and yet at the same time having exposure to them on a regular basis, nicely rubs salt in Nell’s emotional wounds. For anyone who has experienced a masters or PhD there is much to resonate with the experience, even though Nell’s world in this case is exaggerated to the extreme. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Dinerstein Knight nicely captures the despair of a young woman, who having invested so much of her time an effort into something which could be the making of her career, finds it unjustly taken away overnight. But this hasn’t stopped her going ahead with the research that was started in the first place by Nell’s late compatriot, and the reason why Nell and her group were expelled from university. Nell Barber has her PhD in Biological Science terminated partway through (a constant breath-holding fear of any PhD student) through no fault of her own, which results in her removal from the university. ![]()
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