• Question: When you get your PhD, what do you plan to do?

    Asked by rorybaxter to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 7 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 7 Mar 2014:

      Erm, does this mean I have to do another one? Lol, never say never I guess 🙂

      In terms of future plans, I’d like to continue the work I do, perhaps taking on more teaching responsibility again.

    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      I want to work in science communication, talking to people about science and organising fun science events. Ideally I’d lik climbing tooe to have enough time to keep teaching climbing too. I love the diversity of things that I do and I can always change my mind and try something completely new. That thought used to scare me, but now I find it exciting.

    • Photo: Nicola Rogers

      Nicola Rogers answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      I have just started a new job as a Research Scientist in a medical school. This is very exciting; I am working in a group where we are trying to image lungs by MRI, by creating gases that we can detect in the lungs by MRI. I hope to stay in this new research group for a few years, learning some very different techniques from my PhD, and one day I hope to run my own research group in a University, with PhD students working for me

    • Photo: Kieren Bradley

      Kieren Bradley answered on 9 Mar 2014:

      Say things like “trust me, I’m a doctor”.
      In terms of a job, I think I will probably end up as a researcher at a high tech materials company. somewhere like BP making solar cells or Samsung making electrically conductive glass. It wIll all depend.on who gives me a job really.

    • Photo: Roy Adkin

      Roy Adkin answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Hi Rory,
      My plan is to continue learning by researching more into organic chemistry in meteorites but I also want to lecture at a University.
      I would like to be a TV or radio science presenter and deliver Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution (that’s the big dream!!). I just want to continue making as many people excited about science as I am!
      I hope that answers your question 🙂

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