• Question: Would you be more interested in creating your own research and study projects or working for a particular team and contributing towards their efforts?

    Asked by anon-196023 to Sebastian, Paddy, Lee, Jennifer, Fiona, Eleanor on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sebastian Cosgrove

      Sebastian Cosgrove answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Science is very collaborative. Many people contribute to a lot of different projects at all kinds of stages of different stages. My work involves chemists, biologists, chemical engineers and even material scientists. Some of the work we will work on is something that I will have proposed, and it is gratifying when your ideas are successful, but more often than not the work you do comes from a collective group of ideas and inputs from lots of colleagues.

    • Photo: Fiona Scott

      Fiona Scott answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      The project I am working on is largely my own but I was given a brief to start with. I was told the enzyme I need to target and a few ideas for molecules to start with. Since then it has been up to me to decide what molecules I make in what order and how I want to progress the project. Like Sebastian has said, my project also involves other people.

      Personally I do not want to stay in academic research long term because I’d like to live closer to my family but I am very interested in working in medical communications, helping other researchers translate their work from lots of big scientific words into appropriate language for different groups of people (doctors, general audience, pharmaceutical clients) to understand.

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