• Question: What do you do for work

    Asked by anon-208948 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 5 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I make surfaces covered with tiny spikes, where each spike is a thousand times smaller than a human hair. I then work with biologists and we put cells on them, and then try to see how they react. They don’t seem to mind, but they change into weird shapes. If we can understand how they do that, that knowledge might be useful in helping understand more generally how cells moves around the body (for example in cancer). And we can also use them to inject medicines into cells.

    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I do all sorts of things. Most of the time I’m working on my PhD (which means analysing data, writing papers, and presenting the results at conferences) but I also do a lot of other things as part of my work. For example, I help organise events (I’ve organised astronomy camps and I’m now organising a physics school in Palestine this summer). I also give talks across the country.

    • Photo: Gill Harrison

      Gill Harrison answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I am a sonographer, so scan patients using ultrasound to make a diagnosis. Mostly I teach ultrasound or work on projects to help increase the number of sonographer we can train in England and how best we can do that.

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