• Question: What is your favourite part of doing your job?

    Asked by anon-278370 on 5 Feb 2021. This question was also asked by anon-279358, anon-280458, anon-280383, anon-280291, anon-284174.
    • Photo: Amal Lavender

      Amal Lavender answered on 5 Feb 2021:


      I love helping others, fixing problems and making a difference

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 5 Feb 2021:


      These days I really enjoy teaching, it feels a bit like performing on a stage – I always try to be as entertaining as possible (while explaining things well too) so that my students will say “that sounds fun, I’d really like to do that in the future.”

    • Photo: Katie West

      Katie West answered on 6 Feb 2021:


      I love getting to use a fancy microscope to take pretty pictures of cells that I’ve labeled with different colours.

    • Photo: Amelia Gilio

      Amelia Gilio answered on 6 Feb 2021:


      I like that every day is different, sometimes I will be growing pretty crystals and other days I will be using big machines to look at chemical reactions. It is good to know that every day we are working towards solving a problem!

    • Photo: Amina Hamoud

      Amina Hamoud answered on 8 Feb 2021:


      That not everyday is the same. Versatile in terms of tasks and things to do.

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 8 Feb 2021:


      I like the fact that it is different every day (even in lockdown I am working on lots of projects lots of different people. One day I will be teaching, the next writing, the next helping my students, the next attending meetings or a seminar….

    • Photo: Moya Macdonald

      Moya Macdonald answered on 10 Feb 2021:


      My favourite part is getting to travel to a new study site, and then trying to learn all about it by measuring the chemistry of water, air, soil or rocks and by taking samples of them to study in the lab. This part is really fun because you usually work in a team of at least 2 people, but often more, so you all get to know each other really well.

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