• Question: do u work in a lab

    Asked by anon-230008 to Sarah, Alex, Anisha, Elena, Hira, Isaac on 15 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Hira Virdee

      Hira Virdee answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I work in a lab sometimes – but it’s a very small part of the job. Lots of my work is in offices, or from home.

    • Photo: Sarah Knight

      Sarah Knight answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      Yes, in two ways! First of all, I’m part of a group of 6 people working on very similar topics (a professor, 3 postdocs, 1 PhD and 1 research assistant). We call ourselves a “lab” — it’s not a physical location, but a term to refer to our group: we’re “the speech lab”. Also, I often work in an actual lab, although it’s probably not like the kind of lab you have at school 🙂 It has lots of equipment for recording and playing sound, and a little booth which cuts out lots of external sound so that people can listen to sound in a quiet place.

    • Photo: Alex Leide

      Alex Leide answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I spend about half my time in the lab and half in the office reading and writing about science. I think there are some photos of my labs in my profile. Some have electron microscopes in them for looking at tiny details of the materials, others have machines for testing material strengths, and others where we can make new materials

    • Photo: Anisha Wijeyesekera

      Anisha Wijeyesekera answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      Yes! My work includes working in the lab running experiments, as well as analysing data on the computer

    • Photo: Elena Maters

      Elena Maters answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      Yes, I do a lot of my work in a lab. Most of the experiments involve testing things about volcanic ash, like at what temperature ash causes water droplets to freeze, or how much toxic gas like sulphur dioxide can be stuck onto ash surfaces. It’s a lot of fun getting to decide what I’m interested in knowing and then designing experiments to try to find the answer!

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