• Question: What's your favourite part of your job

    Asked by Callum a to Miranda, Daniel, Freya, James, Usman on 17 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by MHI.
    • Photo: Miranda Jackson

      Miranda Jackson answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      I enjoy research, but I also enjoy teaching. I guess my favourite part of my job is to do both, when I can work together with students on my research.

    • Photo: James Gilbert

      James Gilbert answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      For me it’s the creative aspect. I do more practical research, so it’s about solving physical problems to do with small mechanisms, electronics and optics. Me and my research group are always interested in ways to make better equipment for observing the light from stars and galaxies, so whenever I make a prototype system that meets that goal, I get a massive buzz.

      So in a nutshell I’d say inventing something completely new and useful 🙂

    • Photo: Usman Bashir

      Usman Bashir answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      The thrill of stumbling upon a new idea which provides answers to my questions. For example, in one of my projects, we are using texture of cancer images to predict its nature. I was not happy with the theory we were working with until just today, I read another theory which seems to make more sense. I just had a discussion with our mathematician and he think he can create a mathematical model based on this latest theory. So off to the workbench to see if it works better than our previous model! Some day, we will find the perfect model which describes cancer behaviour and that will revolutionize cancer treatment.

    • Photo: Freya Wilson

      Freya Wilson answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      For me my favourite bit is probably doing practical experiments- especially the bit where you finally get some results and as the results are coming in you start to see something that confirms what you were looking for- that’s an amazing feeling

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