• Question: How long do you think your research is going to take? Do you think you will keep researching deeper and deeper into it?

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      Asked by mfinn to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 13 Mar 2014.
      • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

        Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 13 Mar 2014:

        I am doing a PhD so I have a fixed term of funding – 3 years. Part of the challenge of my work is to tie up a whole research project in that time. Of course others may continue working from what I started later on but they will be looking at the things I didn’t have time to explore!

      • Photo: Nicola Rogers

        Nicola Rogers answered on 13 Mar 2014:

        Research is never finished – there are always more things that you can investigate – and you can never try every possible combination of interactions. My PhD was also funded for 3 years, so I had to decide how much I wanted to branch out, and where to start drawing a close so that I had a set of complete studies by the end of three years. Now I am researching something different and currently I have 6 months to research as much as I can before my funding runs out again.

      • Photo: Kate Nicholson

        Kate Nicholson answered on 13 Mar 2014:

        I’m half way through a 3 year contract, but I am hoping to get funding for myself to do something different (continuing the work with the ancient manuscripts) because it has inspired me and I can see that there is so much to do in that area because we are only just starting out. I can only hope there is enough to keep me going for the rest of my career.

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