• Question: do you get many opportunities a scientist e.g. places to go and sites to see and opportunities to experience ???

    Asked by imagineozzi to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 11 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Anna Middleton answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Hi @imagineozzi I get to travel alot with my job. I’ve just come back from the US and am going to Australia and Milan later this year. I go to conferences to present my work and talk to other scientists and do teaching. It’s really exciting.

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      Chris Cole answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Yes, you do get to travel a bit. If you have found some important results you want to present them at a conference. Conferences are held all over the world. I have been to China, Singapore, USA, France, Germany, Austria, Canada and maybe some other places I can’t remember.

      Also depending on the area of expertise you can go on trips in order to do your experiments. For example, if you study amazonian fruit bats then you need to go to Brazil in order to study them.

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      Iain Moal answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I travel quite a bit for conferences. Last year I went to Germany, Poland, Sweden and Holland. It was fun and I got to meet a lot of people.

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      Nick Goldman answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Part of the advantage of being a scientist nowadays is sharing information and knowledge with people all over the world. Most of us have opportunities to do this built into our jobs. I had a big year last year, and went to the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic, USA (east coast and west coast), Slovenia and Austria.

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      Jane Charlesworth answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      It depends. At the moment, I’m working really hard on a project, so not so much. But last year I got to go to the US for a conference. During my PhD I went to Poland for a conference, which was really cool. My parents are both scientists as well, and they’re rather famous in their field, so get invited all over the world-they just got back from helping teach a course at a university in India, which I am totally jealous of! My work is just in front of a computer, but I do know other people who work on exotic beasties or tropical diseases and they get to travel a lot more. That can come with risks, though– a student at my old university got eaten by a lion doing research in Africa!

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