FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brenda Wingfield <Brenda.Wingfield@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM Subject: How hard conservation biologists work To: Dranca Onigbinde <Dranca.Onigbinde@xxxxxxxx> Cc: cjhenleysmith@xxxxxxxxx Dear Dranca, Please send to the faculty board. Regards Brenda Dear Colleagues, I attach an interesting paper about the inferred work habits of conservation biologists shared with me by Andrew McKechnie. For me the papers highlights a number of issues. One is that the internet allows us to analyze the behaviour of people [in this case scientists] in ways that was not possible ten years ago. The other is that South Africans are not working as many hours as the Chinese but that many, many, biologists around the world do work long hours and this trend is increasing annually. This is probably the case in many other fields of academia. Whether this is healthy or not is another question worthy of much debate. I do think that these long work hours are a reality that all academics in the faculty need to recognize. I tend to do my administration during traditional working hours and my research after hours as this is in many ways my "hobby". Regards Brenda
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