• Question: what kind of jobs do you have to do?

    Asked by 243dagg23 to Vaanu, Tomas, Sylvain, Sarah, James, Dawn on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Plan work, Lead teams, negotiate with clients, make design decisions, review others’ work, come up wity strategies to solve problems, research theories that are relevant to my projects, keep up to date with innovations in my field, ask experts for their help

    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I have to do a lot of planning, reading, writing, coding, and lab experiments – and a lot of thinking! I also talk to as many people as I can, you never know who could give you an amazing idea. The idea of engineering organs was thought up by two scientists who met at a party!

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Most of the time I code to develop software tools. IT is mostly a simulation work. Apart from that, I have to submit reports, attend seminars and lectures. I often present my work, give a talk about my research and publish work in conferences and journals. I occasionally do a few outreach activities as well (optional)

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Probably spend about 80% of my time running experiments.
      The rest of the time I’ll write reports about what I’ve found, attend meetings with my research group, order equipment or chemicals, or read about the latest research in my area.

      A few times a year I’ll travel to research conferences around the UK/abroad & speak to other engineers & scientists about our work, or give a talk to an audience about my work. Or I might travel to get training somewhere- I was trained at a hospital in Nottingham on how to analyse cells. I love travelling because you get to meet all kinds of people! 🙂

      & like Dawn said- lots of thinking!

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