• Question: Do you prefer the outstanding outdoors or incredible indoors to do your studies

    Asked by etakaneres to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 14 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Nick Groves-Kirkby

      Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Incredible indoors for me!

      I love the outdoors, and I do a lot of sports and things out there. But when it comes to work I like to be warm, with coffee and my headphones.

      I did a lot of outdoors work in my biology degree, including catching and measuring badgers! I’m happy to not do that any more though.

    • Photo: Carla Turner

      Carla Turner answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Most of my work is in the incredible indoors, but I do enjoy doing field trips in the outstanding outdoors!

    • Photo: Werner Muller

      Werner Muller answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I like outdoors to relax in order to go back indoors with fresh energy.

    • Photo: Vicky Forster

      Vicky Forster answered on 17 Nov 2013:

      Unfortunately all of my work has to be done inside. Mostly because the human cells I grow for my experiments have to be grown in a completely germ-free environment – so we use special cabinets to grow these in. They wouldn’t work very well outside! Also I use quite a lot of dangerous chemicals, and we have to dispose of these in special ways to make sure that they don’t cause harm to the environment, so working outside – I couldn’t make sure that this would happen.

    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 18 Nov 2013:

      Outstanding outdoors, but unfortunately all of my work is done inside the lab 🙁 I do get the chance to go out and about on trips with colleagues in the graduate school though, doing things like powerboat driving, scuba diving and white water rafting!

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