• Question: Is most of your work practical?

    Asked by anon-224916 to Paul, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019: last edited 14 Nov 2019 10:07 pm

      Very much so! The hospital lab work is very hands on technical stuff; lots of equipment and chemicals. The teaching side is slight.y different. Planning lectures requires a lot of careful thought, but nothing like putting a practical together!

    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      Absolutely. I am usually at the bedside setting up the machines or troubleshooting problems with the equipment. I do have a lot of paperwork and notes to write from the therapies and tests we do but I would definitely call this a practical job. I normally do about 25,000 steps a day!

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      No I would say about 40% ish of my time is spent analysing samples. Approximately 20% is spent evaluating the data and building statistical models and 40% on reading articles and writing. When I’m demonstrating in the lab though, it’s far more practical – probably about 70% of my work time with the remainder spent on marking the students’ reports. As an outreach demonstrator it’s more like 100% practical and is jolly good fun too!!

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