• Question: How many scientist do you work with

    Asked by anon-200274 to Rosemary, Oliver, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: David Walker-Sünderhauf

      David Walker-Sünderhauf answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I have two supervisors, who are more-or-less involved in my project, and two additional collaborators who help me with some experiments and ideas.
      Additionally, I’m part of a larger lab group – we have weekly meetings where we all update each other on what we are working on and exchange ideas. There are 15 of us in this lab group. In the lab I use, there are also 2 other lab groups (of similar size) – so I do know and chat to these other scientists as well!

    • Photo: Jordan Kirby

      Jordan Kirby answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      In my local group there are 5 of us in total, but in our building there is about 40 of us in total 🙂

    • Photo: Rosemary Josekutty Thomas

      Rosemary Josekutty Thomas answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I have two supervisors like David. We have a lot of scientists in your department and I think it’s more than 40 🙂

    • Photo: Oliver Gordon

      Oliver Gordon answered on 10 Mar 2019: last edited 10 Mar 2019 5:45 pm

      Lets see…. I have 1 supervisor (and technically a 2nd co-supervisor like the others, but you don’t normally see a whole lot of them). I then have 6 other people in my research group. These are the people I work with the most.
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      There’s about another 10 in my office who research different things to me but we always throw ideas around with, too. I also work with 2 or 3 of the other scientists in the building on non-science things, and another 4-5 who also supervise the undergraduates. By the time you include the senior academics, lecturers and PhDs and postdoctoral researchers I’d say there’s definitely more than 40-50 in my department I know in some way!

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