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Asurvey of more than 4,000 researchers revealed a widespread culture of hostility in the workplace. Forty-three percent of participants said they had experienced bullying or harassment, and 61 percent claimed they had witnessed such behavior in their work environments. Only 37 percent of respondents said they would feel comfortable speaking out about discrimination in the workplace without fear of negative personal consequences.
“Some of these results are frankly shocking,” Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, says in remarks to The Guardian. “There have been enormous scientific advances in the past 40 years and I think we’ve been seduced by that. We’ve been willing to sacrifice everything to achieve them, without asking at what cost.”
The questionnaire was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, which itself faced accusations of bullying and discrimination at the Wellcome’s Sanger Institute in Cambridge, The Guardian notes. The goal of the survey ...
