Unwritten Expectations
Mentoring: you need several mentors, and none of them has to be your supervisor
Expecting one person to cover research, career, teaching, and wellbeing sets everyone up to fail.
Unwritten Expectations
Norms nobody states out loud in international academic settings, made explicit.
Unwritten Expectations
Unwritten Expectations
Building a network from nothing: usefulness travels further than introductions
Researchers without an inherited network can build one, but it starts from giving rather than asking.
Unwritten Expectations
Integrity expectations: most breaches come from process, not from intent
Very few integrity cases begin with someone deciding to cheat.
Unwritten Expectations
Authorship norms: they differ by field and by country, so agree explicitly
Two people can both act in good faith and still disagree about who should be an author.
Unwritten Expectations
Unwritten rules: the things nobody tells you because everyone assumes you know
The hardest part of joining a new academic system is the expectations that are never stated.
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