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Asked by anon-255873 on 28 May 2020.
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Chloe Carter answered on 28 May 2020:
I do a bit of both. I work on my own doing my research in the lab and typing it up, however I am part of a bigger team. This team is made up of my supervisors and industry contacts and all the people in the office. In the office we bounce ideas off each other and ask for help with different issues, sometimes we help each other out on fieldwork. I like that my work involves both working on my own and being in a team.
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Luke Hillary answered on 28 May 2020: last edited 28 May 2020 6:28 pm
Before the lockdown, I was doing almost all the lab work and experiments for my PhD myself. I have my supervisors to advise and work with different people in my university and also in industry. Now that I’m working on a different project linked to coronavirus, I’m one cog in the machine. We all work together to achieve one goal because it’s much more work than one person could do.
Science can be a bit like athletics. Sometimes you’re alone in the 100m, sometimes your’e in a relay race. Either way, there’s still a big support team helping you.
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Steve Wroe answered on 28 May 2020:
I lived and worked in the Antarctic for over two years, where I worked ‘in the field’, that is to say, away from base for up to six weeks at a time. Imagine camping trips for six weeks away, with 9 husky dogs as your transport.
To answer your question, I provided raw data from tests in the field, with that data being sent back to Cambridge University where the data that I had collected was analysed by other scientists.
In the end, I never really got to see the results of my work. I was simply the field worker who carried out collecting data and samples to be analysed.
I hope this is of use
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Gareth Mason answered on 29 May 2020:
In my ‘normal’ day to day work it’s just me and my dog out in the forests or hills carrying out survey work, and that’s how I like it! I am part of a wider team of 5 but we cover a very large area of Scotland (6 council areas) and each work in our own ‘beat’. We do meet up to discuss important things, and if I need help I occasionally work with someone else but this doesn’t happen often.
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Sarah Marley answered on 29 May 2020:
I mostly work in a team – but there are lots of different types of teams! Sometimes I am in a team with other people I work with to do different research projects. Sometimes I team up with students to help them run their own research projects. And sometimes I get to work with my friends on projects we’ve created together – those are my favourite!
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Helen Roy answered on 29 May 2020:
I mostly work in very large teams with people from all around the world. It is very stimulating to exchange ideas with so many people. We all bring something a little different to the team and so are combined expertise means we can address some big questions in ecology. It is just wonderful to collaborate with so many amazing people – we have lots of fun too coming up with project plans and ways of sharing our excitement with other people. This short film highlights some of our teamwork on alien species https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKrn2L3xog
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Jessica Gomez-Banderas answered on 3 Jun 2020:
Mostly I work alone on a day to day basis but the lab I work in is one big team! Whenever there’s a problem I will get others to help me and will help others with their problems too. In research, we often collaborate with others on projects and in this case we need to work as a team. Doing a PhD is a mix of working independently and with other people!
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Emily Goddard answered on 3 Jun 2020: last edited 3 Jun 2020 12:00 pm
I do a mixture. I work on my own most of the time, but when my experiments work, I work with other scientists and engineers at Sunamp to scale them up. There’s also another girl in my PhD group who is funded by Sunamp, so although we have separate projects, we sometimes help each other with experiments. I also have my supervisor and others in my PhD group that I can talk to, and we all help each other if it’s an experiment or technique we’ve done before.
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anon answered on 5 Jun 2020:
I normally work in a team. Making sure that a building site doesn’t harm the environment needs lots of people to work together as there are so many things being built all at once!
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Emily Cheek answered on 8 Jun 2020:
I am part of a team of 17 people that work on air quality and public health, although we all have different backgrounds and specialities. I work with different members of the team on different projects, depending on whose expertise are required but I also do tasks by myself or feed into larger pieces of work that involve the whole team or wider department. We are a very close team who work extremely well together often to tight or unexpected deadlines.
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Natasha Scott answered on 24 Jun 2020:
Nearly all the fieldwork I do in as part of team, as this means that the workload is shared and one person isn’t stressed trying to carry out all the works.
In the office the work I will do will be part of a team effort but will be individual work. For example I will write a factual report for a job which my manager controls.
I prefer working as part of a team as it is much more social and allows you to get work done quicker and also to discuss results to get more view points.
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Steve T commented on :
Most of the time I work in a team, and I’m happiest when I am. Environmental problems can be very complicated and it’s hard for one person to be an expert in all aspects of the environment that you study. So, by having a team, where everyone has their own area of expertise, you can look at a problem a lot of different ways, and learn together.