• Question: Do you carry on your work when you are not in the lab?

    Asked by max219 to Adrian, Iroise, Joe, Rachel, Ria on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Joe Bathelt

      Joe Bathelt answered on 11 Nov 2016:


      I spent most of my time on a computer analysing data or writing reports. The time spent for running experiments in the brain scanner or a testing lab is only a small fraction of my time. I often continue working outside of office hours at home to catch up on reading or write computer code for experiments or analyses.

    • Photo: Iroise Dumontheil

      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 11 Nov 2016:


      I don’t really work in a lab per se, I work in an office, and when I am testing I do that in schools, or testing rooms, or at the neuroimaging centre. So I mostly work from my office, but I also sometimes spend the day working at home (like today) and sometimes work at the weekend. Most of my work is done on a computer so it’s easy to do it anywhere.

    • Photo: Ria Vaportzis

      Ria Vaportzis answered on 11 Nov 2016:


      I work in an office really, not a lab. I used to work a lot of hours out of the office, but not anymore. My job requires me to work on a computer quite a lot, although there are other aspects of it, such us testing participant or trying to find them to take part in my studies.

    • Photo: Rachel Harris

      Rachel Harris answered on 12 Nov 2016:


      I work in the lab during my week days. How long I spend in the lab depends on the type of experiments I’m running and how many I’m trying to do at once! I can spend between 1 hour and 7 hours in the lab each day.

      When I’m not in the lab I work in the office on my computer. I’ll often be reading about new research in my area and writing about my work.

      Sometimes I might need to do so writing or reading at home if I haven’t had time at work, but I try not to because I like to do other things!

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