Having the time of your life or on how to create a good research environment

In this short analysis Sabine Müller, which is currently "Adviser for Education and Participation in the Digital World" at Wikimedia Germany, gives an insight into the hierarchic system of german academia and why this could be a problem for the wellbeing of young academics and PhD. candidates. She compares her experiences in the U.K. at Oxford University with the approach in german academia and point out the differences in research cultures between both systems.