• Question: are you background workers or is your job to conduct experiments and do practical work?

    Asked by madski to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 22 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hi, I pretty much stopped doing lab work about 12 months ago although I do sometimes wander in to the lab to do small experiments. Although now I just get in the way because I don’t know where anything is kept anymore or what the “system” is (eg. for replacing empty pipette tip boxes, people get very upset if you don’t replace empty tip boxes). I mostly plan experiments with students and help them to analyse their data. That’s what I did ALL day yesterday so didn’t get to answer as many I’m a Scientist questions as I planned to.

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      For most of the work I do, I’m the boss and there are researchers and/or PhD students who do experiments. But I do lots of experiments myself too.

    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      I do some of the experiments and practical work myself as well as the stuff sitting at my computer reading and writing documents.

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      I have doctoral students and research assistants who do a lot of the time consuming experimental work on my behalf, but I do still spend a proportion of my time doing practical experiments myself.

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