• Question: if you were to choose a different job in science, what would it be?

    Asked by izzylutkins to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 9 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by codiem.
    • Photo: Grant Campbell

      Grant Campbell answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      @izzylutkins. I am a lecturer at a top university, mostly lecturing engineering (but certainly with some science in there), and I would not choose any other job – I love being involved in educating people at this very high level and in stretching my own knowledge and understanding through the combination of research and teaching.

    • Photo: Julie Bland

      Julie Bland answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Hi Izzy,
      I think I would swap with my sister, who is a biologist trying to save endangered species. She get to travel around the world and study wild animal in their natural habitat.
      The job I wouldn’t like to do is one where you spend your days in the lab or office doing similar things.

    • Photo: Nik Watson

      Nik Watson answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      Chemistry really fasinates me so I wouldnt mind having a go at that, or astro pyhsics (looking at stars etc)
      Or building robots that would be fune too

    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      I’d love to get involved with biofuel research – for a while I ran my cars on veg oil which made them smell like a chip shop!

      At one point I wanted to work in the Antarctic looking for new bacterial species.

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