When I studied for my BA at Stockholm Uni, my main teachers were Anders, Göran, Gert, Mats and Bosse.
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When I studied for my BA at Stockholm Uni, my main teachers were Anders, Göran, Gert, Mats and Bosse. All except one had something in common, and I don't mean the fact that they were all men with Swedish names.
All except Göran were teaching at the uni department that had issued their PhD diplomas.
This illustrates a general fact about #academia in the Nordic countries, something that I wish I'd spotted and understood before I started my own PhD.
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When I studied for my BA at Stockholm Uni, my main teachers were Anders, Göran, Gert, Mats and Bosse. All except one had something in common, and I don't mean the fact that they were all men with Swedish names.
All except Göran were teaching at the uni department that had issued their PhD diplomas.
This illustrates a general fact about #academia in the Nordic countries, something that I wish I'd spotted and understood before I started my own PhD.
@mrundkvist It depends on the university, I think - in Denmark, Copenhagen is a lot more nepotistic than e.g. Aarhus University.
My linguistics department had an Australian professor, two Dutch lecturers, and a Danish lecturer who was from the department. Later on a couple of Americans were added.
Our classes were also a lot more outwards-facing, with plenty of international theories we worked with. Whenever I meet a linguist from CPH they worked with "in-house" theories for e.g. phonetics, pragmatics, syntactic theory, etc.
I've always been a little confused as to how they collaborated with people from other universities when they used their own weird version of the international phonetic alphabet modified to look more like Danish orthography but then of course being useless for people trained in classical IPA.
