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Asked by C you nO 2 to Theo, Philip, Kerry, Ali, Alex on 13 Nov 2014.
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Alison Thomson answered on 13 Nov 2014:
I don’t make any profit at all! But if we do really good work, we’re more likely to get given more money to spend on doing more research, but we certainly don’t spend the money on ourselves!
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Theo Laftsoglou answered on 13 Nov 2014:
We really don’t get paid as much as we work! But, yet again, I think we are all doing it because we are very enthusiastic about science and because we enjoy finding this out. However, you can still do science and get paid well, for example in industry – in biology / chemistry is usually the big pharmaceuticals that pay better than working at Universities and you can still do research.
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Philip Ratcliffe answered on 13 Nov 2014:
If by profits you mean money, then the answer is no! The exclamation mark is because perhaps we ought to.
Then again the scientific publications I produce are the better if I put in more effort, of course. that means I publish more if I work harder and the reason I was given the job I have now was mainly based on my publications.
I am just finishing a text book (for university students) and got asked to do it (for money, of course) because somebody liked the look of my lecture notes and they too were the fruit of the effort I put into writing them. If the book’s a success that will also be because of the effort I put into writing it. But I won’t become rich at all!
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