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Asked by anon-195785 on 14 Jan 2019.
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Anthony Redmond answered on 14 Jan 2019:
I guess you could call where I work a lab. It’s technically a computer lab, but really its just an office!
Up to last year, my time was split between time in the computer lab/office and traditional biology labs (usually to do things with shark blood or shark DNA), and a tiny bit in the aquarium. But I’m basically hopeless at the non-computer stuff, so now I am at the computer full time!
Oh, also I guess we all spend a certain amount of time in meetings, discussing things with others, teaching students, attending and giving presentations etc., But the above is where I spend my research time!
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Reka Nagy answered on 15 Jan 2019:
I never am, I can’t even say that I work in a ‘computer lab’ like Anthony – it’s really just a big office full of desks and computers.
I briefly worked in a lab (for 3 months at the end of my undergraduate degree) but I decided that I did not like it, so swapped over to computer-assisted research! -
Laura Nolan answered on 15 Jan 2019:
I do work in the lab a lot, most days I would say around 70% of the time. But I also work on the computer, meet with colleagues and students and attend seminars and conferences too.
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James Cole answered on 15 Jan 2019:
I don’t normally work in a lab. I have my office, the lecture rooms I deliver my teaching and I do fieldwork outside at various archaeological sites
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Emma Meaburn answered on 15 Jan 2019:
Whether or not you work in lab depends on what field of science you are in, and your level of experience. I am a behavior geneticist (i.e., I am interested in the genetic contributions to human actions, cognition and behavior) and spent most of my PhD training in the lab. I loved it! Now that I have an academic research position I am rarely in the lab – it is my students and post-docs who get to do all the fun stuff and I spend more of my time at the computer, teaching, or talking about research with colleagues and collaborators.
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Judith Sleeman answered on 15 Jan 2019:
Not as often as I would like! I used to work in the lab full time, but now my job is a mixture of research and teaching, plus all the administrative bits and pieces that go with running a research group and being a University lecturer. I haven’t done an actual experiment since before Christmas, but I am hoping to get into the lab for a bit next week.
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Omar Mahroo answered on 15 Jan 2019:
I am what’s known as a “clinician scientist”, which means I spend some of my time as a doctor seeing patients in the hospital, and some of my time as a scientist doing research. The research I do involves recording electrical responses from the retina, which is a structure at the back of the eye. We do this in a specialised lab. The patients I see make me think about research questions and the research I do helps me understand the diseases in my patients. So it’s really nice to have both bits to my job. Other bits of my week involve teaching and having meetings with other doctors and scientists.
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Heather Widdows answered on 17 Jan 2019:
I have never worked in a lab – as a philosopher none of my work is in a lab.
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