“…Peer review has become incorporated into both secondary and tertiary science education programmes (Bower & Richards, 2006;Bulte, Westbroek, De Jong, & Pilot, 2006;Reynolds & Moskovitz, 2008;Santucci et al, 2008), postgraduate students are indoctrinated with a "publish or perish" mantra (Caon, 2008a(Caon, , 2008b and the formation of ostensibly collaborative, covalidating professional networks or conglomerates is both implicitly and explicitly espoused as more meaningful than small-scale, independent research (Australian_Research_Council, 2008;Carpenter et al, 2009;Feller & Cozzens, 2008;Santucci et al, 2008;Wilkinson, 2009). In this sense, the operational reality of science is not necessarily dissimilar to other fields of endeavour, but as long as there is apposition of perceived and proximal realities, there is little hope of lasting commitment to policies and practices capable of facilitating genuine creativity (Schmidt, 2010).…”