• Question: How did you get into your job

    Asked by blenky to Carla, Madgie, Nick, Vicky, Werner on 14 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Werner Muller

      Werner Muller answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I started as a research assistance as a student and then got more and more involved with my job.

    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I did a research project in the final year of my undergraduate course on something similar to what I am studying now and was invited to interview for my current position.

    • Photo: Nick Groves-Kirkby

      Nick Groves-Kirkby answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I took a roundabout route.

      I went to university to study biology, and ended up working as an editor at a medical journal (a magazine that publishes articles about medicine for doctors and scientists). After four years there I decided to do something different, and started applying for PhD courses. I was lucky enough that a charity called the Wellcome Trust was willing to pay for me to go back to university and train as a research scientist!

    • Photo: Carla Turner

      Carla Turner answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      I did Biology as my undergraduate degree and really enjoyed working in a lab, so I got some extra experience. After that I applied for a PhD research position in Sheffield and my supervisor was kind enough to give it!

    • Photo: Vicky Forster

      Vicky Forster answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      Hey Blenky,

      I did a project for my undergraduate dissertation in a cancer research lab, and decided I would really like to do more research, so I applied for a PhD at a different university, and was offered the position! I did my PhD, which was very hard, but really enjoyable and I learned a lot. I finished that last summer and have been working ever since as a cancer research scientist.

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