• Question: what was your biggest challenge your discovery ?

    Asked by anon-224960 to Katy, Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie on 14 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-224981.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Overcoming the boredom of watching a laser scanning my samples during my PhD

    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      Aiming towards a discovery can be very challenging! Lots of issues that you don’t expect can crop up; you can’t get funding, it can take a loooooong time to start a project, samples might not be right, your equipment can break, you might lose your data on the computer, you might get negative results! But all of these things teach you resilience (which is vital for being a scientist) and are also learning opportunities to prepare you for your next project.

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 25 Nov 2019:

      My biggest challenge at the moment is getting my work done with all my other commitments and with my children being off school poorly! As Natalie quite rightly says, it certainly teaches you to be resilient and not give up!

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