• Question: Where do you do most of your work? (i.e. at home, an office, in the lab)

    Asked by natalie8 to Hermine, Katy, Laura, Nathalie, Paula on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Paula Salgado

      Paula Salgado answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi Natalie

      It really depends at what stage in the project I am. When we first have to produce protein and get crystals, I spend a lot of the time in the lab, setting up experiments. After I collect data, I spent most of the time at the computer, analysing the data, writing the scientific paper with our conclusions – that’s what I’m doing now! 😉 At that stage, we sometimes work from home – I do that when I have to write a report or a paper or prepare a talk. I need a bit of quiet to be able to concentrate and at work, there’s always people around, asking help and advise, so it’s hard to focus,

      Very mixed, as you see 😉

    • Photo: Nathalie Pettorelli

      Nathalie Pettorelli answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi Natalie,

      I do most of my work in an office – try not to work from home, to make sure I have a life outside work; and I don’t do lab work – I’m a danger in labs 🙂

    • Photo: Laura Dixon

      Laura Dixon answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      My research actually takes place on a farm where I work, so I spend alot of time on the farm when I’m doing a project, other than that I do the rest of my work in an office on a computer 🙂

    • Photo: Hermine Schnetler

      Hermine Schnetler answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Office.

    • Photo: Katy Mee

      Katy Mee answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I do pretty much all of my work in the office, except when i go on fieldwork but that’s not very often. My opffice is huge open plan with about 30 people in it, althought here’s only ever about 15 people in at any one time. I wouldn’t like to work in my own office or at home because i’m too sociable and need to talk with people!!

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