• Question: how many years did you spend at uni? and did you ever not want to be a food scientist?

    Asked by 12ccollins to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 12 Mar 2013.
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      Grant Campbell answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      I spent 3 years doing my undergraduate degree and 3.5 doing my PhD. After a while in various other jobs I became a lecturer in 1995, so have been back in university since then.

      Although I continue to enjoy being involved with food science, yes, sometimes I think if I had my time again I’d do something different.

    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      I spent 3 years at uni and 3 years doing a PhD (and rather too many years writing it up!). I never wanted to be a food scientist! My first research job was loosely based on improving washing powders. But many of the skills and techniques I learned there I have used throughout my career.

Comments

  • Photo: 12ccollins

    12ccollins commented on :

    like what

    • Photo: Grant

      Grant commented on :

      As I get older I find history to be more and more interesting, so if I had my time again I might choose that. But more likely I’d choose physics – because it’s the most fundamental of the sciences, a good grounding in physics can take you into many other areas of science. Although as I’ve written in another answer, reading Bill Bryson’s book “A short history of nearly everything” made me realise what an interesting and widely relevant subject geology is.