• Question: where do you work

    Asked by ben123 to Amar, Ana, Andrea, Leah, Matt on 11 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Anastasia Wass

      Anastasia Wass answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      I work at the University of Reading in the laboratories they have. Our labs open plan with some little rooms for special equipment. I really enjoy this as it means there’s always people around to teach you new skills, it also means I can help teach undergraduates and pass on some of the skills I’ve learnt!

    • Photo: Andrea Hanvey

      Andrea Hanvey answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      I work in a histopathology laboratory at Hereford County Hospital you can see some pictures of my lab on my profile picture

    • Photo: Amar Joshi

      Amar Joshi answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      My job is at the University of Leicester in the Department of Biochemistry. I have an office where I have my computer and paperwork and I have a space in the lab where I do my labwork. Like Anastasia, there are loads of other rooms which have machines that I use.

      One of the best places I work is at Diamond Light Source. It is a doughnut shaped building near Didcot in Oxfordshire. I get you use a really powerful X-ray beam to collect data from my samples. It is really good fun but it counts as work too!

      I also have to go to meetings with my team – also counts as work. Travelling takes 2 hours and is boring.

    • Photo: Leah Fitzsimmons

      Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      I work as a PhD Student in the Cancer Studies department of the University of Birmingham. I also did my undergraduate degree in Birmingham in the Biosciences Department, so I’ve been here for over 8 years!

      The department I work in has been around since long before I was born and has experts in all kinds of cancer working in it.

    • Photo: Matthew Lam

      Matthew Lam answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      I work for a charity could Breakthrough Breast Cancer and we fund research into breast cancer. My office is in Holborn in Central London and our main research laboratories are located at the Institute of Cancer Research in Fulham – right near the Natural History Museum.

      Previously I worked in labs at Aston University in Birmingham.

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