It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing ¡°special relationship¡± (News, 3 October). THE¡¯s coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another important feature of transatlantic collaborations.
Lifelong friendships (and sometimes romance) can develop from ¡°joint projects¡±. Academic life is not just about economic benefits or research excellence framework status: strictly speaking, it can also create a special kind of samba.
Woody Caan
Practitioner member of the Academy of Social Sciences
Duxford
Cambridgeshire
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