• Question: what do you do for a living?/what is your Job???

    Asked by m0ntburg to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by jakeronson, 9willj.
    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      First of all I’m a paediatrician (children’s doctor) in the hospital. However I’m doing less of that at the moment to spend more time doing research lookinginto how we can stop bacteria causing infections. Over recent years bacteria have resistant to many of the antibiotics we have – so we need to find new ones!

    • Photo: Antonia Hamilton

      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I’m a lecturer in Psychology. So I spend half my time teaching undergraduates about psychology and half my time doing scientific research.

    • Photo: Hugh Roderick

      Hugh Roderick answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I’m a research fellow, I work in a lab at a university on a project that is using genetic modification to create plantain (a type of banana) plants that are resistant to attack by little worms called nematodes. The project involves working with other scientists in Uganda so I get to travel out to Uganda to do lab and field work as well.

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