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Asked by chloe99 to Kath, James, Ailsa, Evan, Ryan on 18 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by rosieapple, 08reyre.
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Kath O'Reilly answered on 12 Jun 2011:
I work in a team. I have my boss, who is a lecturer at Imperial, and two other researchers also working on polio. I also work a lot with people at the World Health Organisation, they work in ‘the field’, so they look for cases of disease and treat them, and vaccinate the local population. There are hundreds of doctors working in the field.
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James Hargreaves answered on 12 Jun 2011:
Like Kath, I also work in a team. In my department there is 3 of us, but in the whole building in all departments there are over 200 people. Its very strange going for your break and sitting next to strangers!!
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Ryan Ladd answered on 18 Jun 2011:
On some parts I will work alone but I often help other people in my lab with their projects or preparing a presentation, for example. There are four of us who regularly work together on things and several other people who work in the lab long term.
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Ailsa Powell answered on 18 Jun 2011:
I do work in a team, but also on my own. I’m part of a lab group, so like Kath I have a boss who is university lecturer and then there are other reseachers who work for the same boss, but I am the only person in this group working on Malaria. The other people I work with on my Malaria project are at different universities; so I work with a team at Imperial College in London (where Kath works), a team at the Sanger Insitute in Cambridge and a group at the University of Toronto in Canada. I have to travel quite far to go to meetings sometimes 🙂
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Evan Keane answered on 20 Jun 2011:
Almost everyone in science works in a team. Things get done quicker that way! Although everyone on the team might have their own tasks to do which they work on on their own.
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rwn1 commented on :
If I become a scientist I hope I’m incharge of the team.
Ailsa commented on :
I think that’s what we would all like 🙂
Aren’t too many of those jobs available though.