• Question: do you mostly work in a lab or other places?

    Asked by jessicamessica to Ailsa, Evan, James, Kath, Ryan on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by chloe99, deathrose, smurf69.
    • Photo: James Hargreaves

      James Hargreaves answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I work in a varied environment from the lab, to a kitchen to a food factory, it all depends at what stage i am at with my experiments or what i’m doing that day. My day is always different

    • Photo: Ailsa Powell

      Ailsa Powell answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I mostly work either in the lab or at my desk and computer just outside it. The amount of time at either place depends on what I’m doing – for example today I’d planned a light load of experiments so I can spend more time answering questions. Sometimes I have to go and do experiments somewhere else though – at machines called synchrotrons (http://www.diamond.ac.uk/) and sometimes I go and work in other people’s labs – I was working at a lab at the University of Toronto for a month earlier this year.

    • Photo: Kath O'Reilly

      Kath O'Reilly answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I work at my desk mostly. I get the odd ‘field trip’, I last went to Burkina Faso in West Africa. That was fun and there was no desk in sight!

    • Photo: Evan Keane

      Evan Keane answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I work at my desk in an office, or sometimes at a telescope either nearby or on far-flung places on Earth, and I quite often travel to conferences and meetings all around the world. I also get asked to give talks in various places so I do that too. So I work in many places, depending on what day it is! This week and next I am in my office so I can be on my computer to answer all your questions 🙂

    • Photo: Ryan Ladd

      Ryan Ladd answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Mostly I work in the lab or my office but whenever I need to build something I’ll go to the workshop. My lab is quite fun though, we have a private swimming pool for testing our submarines!

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