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Philippa Kerr

Philippa Kerr is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the psychology department at Stellenbosch University. The views in this article do not necessarily reflect the position of Stellenbosch University or the National Research Foundation (NRF) which funds her fellowship

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Postdoctoral fellowships and the economics of promises

by Philippa Kerr 24 November 202026 November 2020

The endless rhetoric about this being a career development opportunity sounds empty at best, deliberately misleading at worst

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