From the archive: Critical friends and their benefits

Friendship is a valuable antidote to an increasingly competitive academia

Some things don’t change. “The world of academia is competitive and sometimes brutal” began the strapline when this article was first published in December 2018. In the article, Tseen Khoo’s prescription against that ongoing state of affairs was to find—and keep—a few critical friends, and she goes on to explain how to do that.