"Some notable differences between the research cultures of university disciplines, particularly between the culture of laboratory-based sciences and that of the humanities and social sciences. To a considerable extent they stem from the large capital investment in equipment and materials required in "
"During the intervening years their (research students) enthusiasm has been dampened by the demands of having to concentrate on a specific topic and conduct routine and repetitive tasks in an atmosphere where nobody seems either to understand or to care about their work. They come into the university"
"The necessity for personal academic initiative is the key cultural change that doctoral students will encounter compared with their undergraduate days. All new postgraduates have to be prepared to unlearn and rethink many of the doctrines which have have had to accept up to this point in their stude"