• Question: What do you enjoy and what do you not enjoy about your work?

    Asked by 522eura36 to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 12 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by decmat, charlotte N-S.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I enjoy using the microscope and doing experiments in the lab, but I really don’t enjoy when my experiments don’t work!

      Thanks for the question!

    • Photo: Kerry O'Shea

      Kerry O'Shea answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I love doing experiments as it feels like you are achieving something. There is a lot of (slightly boring) paperwork to do for my project, which I don’t enjoy as much, but is important.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I enjoy the challenge, which may be to solve a problem, or even to find the problem; and it can also be to teach, to try to help young students come to grips with the difficult problems of physics such as quantum mechanics or relativity …
      The part I don’t like is the bureaucratic part, where I have to decide things like if we’re going to have an extra day’s holiday at Easter or if some other faculty can start a new degree course. Worst of all I hate exams! I absolutely detest having to tell students that they really haven’t done their homework well enough. I hate having to say Tom is better than Harry and that Dick might be better off doing something else. But we have to do it.

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