• Question: what will you do after your work is complete

    Asked by twuggerler to Claire, Greg, Jane, Jo, Nuruz, Vicki on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Vicki Onions answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      My work is on a 3 year contract – I have been given funding for 3 years to carry out a specific area of research. After this time i can either apply to get more funding for the same work or I can look around to see what other sceince research jobs are being advertsied and apply for them, just like a “proper” job!! I still have 2 years left on my contract so i’ll have to wait and see!

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      Nuruz Jaman answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      i may do voluntary work with schools and other educational institutions to get children and students interested in science and i would also like to travel the world

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      Jo Broadbent answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      HI there

      You know, there will probably always be disease and illness. So we will always need healthb services, and to know what the best new treatments are. A big part of my job is analysing how good new drugs and treatments are. So in some ways, my work will never b e complete.

      I think most scientists are just interested in knowing things. And whenever you find something out, it just opens up more questions. So scientists rarely complete anything!

      Jo

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      Greg FitzHarris answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      hi there…
      hard to answer that one. In a way, the answr is, realistically, that it never will be. Usually when you set out to do a bit of research, you (hopefully) answer the q you set out to… but more often than not you generate new questions along the way — for example, you spot something happening which you didt expect, realise its probably someting important, and so set out to try to work pout how it works. So, i suspect ill never runout of things to do.

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      Claire O'Donnell answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I’m moving on to look at how we can chage the way some operations are done so that fewer people die afterwards. Research evidence suggestst that for one big operation on the aorta (the main artery leading from the heart) having your operation in a hospital that does lots of cases like yours means that you’re more likely to do better. Currently there are some hospitals that do lots of these operations whilst others to relatively few. I’ll be workign with doctors and hospital managers to see how we can use these research findings to improve services for people. Here’s a link to a newspaper article that says more about it. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jun/13/specialist-surgery-increases-survival

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      Jane Cleal answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      That is the good thing about biology, when you find out one thing you can extend it to look at other related things. So I am looking at how placentas feed the baby, once I find this out I can then look at say how the placenta feeds the baby if the mum has diabetes or smokes.

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