Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that graduate students feel increasing pressure to be academically productive in measurable ways, notably through peer-reviewed publication. Many suggest that the drive for measurable productivity responds to changing structural constraints. In these reflections, we indicate that an unsupportive culture of graduate study is also shaped by our everyday actions. Our practices maintain and exacerbate the competition through which the drive to demonstrate propensity for academic productivity has arisen, and it is therefore at the level of practices that this culture might be changed. Through intra- and inter-university communication, we might alter the expectations within which we work, and foment a collective movement against the drive to compete with our peers and for mutually supportive graduate study.
Recommended Citation
Crane, Nicholas Jon and Pearson, Zoe
(2011)
"Can we Get A Pub From This? Reflections on Competition and the Pressure to Publish While in Graduate School,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 52:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol52/iss2/5