• Question: do you work alone or with other people

    Asked by yays520putz on 21 Mar 2025. This question was also asked by wear520byes, Jonah.
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      Andreea Claudia Toma answered on 21 Mar 2025:

      I have the pleasure of working alongside a fantastic team of five, where we all put our skills as lab technicians and scientists to the test. Together, we ensure that our epoxy resins meet the high-quality standards our company is known for.

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      Zoe Vance answered on 21 Mar 2025:

      I work within a group of other scientists – ten of us including our supervisor – and also with other groups that we collaborate with on big projects. This is fairly common in research because one group is unlikely to be able to do everything necessary on a project. I can write software and do data analysis but because I only do computational work I rely on other people to provide me the data from experiments.

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      Rachael Eggleston answered on 21 Mar 2025:

      It’s a mix! I’d say I work mostly with other people. I work under/with my supervisors, who are scientists who have done science for much longer than I have and are teaching me how to do good science. I have a lab group who have the same supervisors as me, studying similar things I am, to learn from too. I also have other PhD students around me, who may be doing different work than I am but can teach me about their research topics and what tools and techniques they use! But a lot of the *actual* work I do is best done by one person- like coding or lab work- even though I ask other people for advice/help.

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      Martin McCoustra answered on 26 Mar 2025:

      I have a small research group up here in Edinburgh but I also collaborate with people all over the world. Modern science is not an individual pursuit as it once was but is often the result of extended and extensive collaborations.

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      Sophie Pain answered on 28 Mar 2025:

      I work as part of a team of 9 people. I do most of my experiments by myself, but by working with other people we can get more results more quickly and discuss things together. I also talk to other scientists all over the world to try and design new experiments!

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      Caroline Roche answered on 24 Apr 2025:

      A mix of both – I’m part of a larger team but depending on the size of the project I am on, I could be the only software person or I could be working with lots of different people working on different parts of the software.

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      Sharron Kenny answered on 14 May 2025:

      In my Laboratory the X-ray flouresance spectroscophy lab i am the person in charge (PIC) i work along side my line manager and a Young scientist who i supervise so i am kind of in the middle of the hiarachy in that i oversee the day to day lab operations but i report in to my line manager on a monthly basis and see him daily as we also share an office.

      But i also work as a much larger team of 10 as my lab is included in the analytical and charactorisation team/coridoor and we have monthly team meetings as well as monthly team breakfasts. so while i can work in the lab alone all day some days i do still regularly see people 🙂

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