• Question: Does your work involve regularly working in a team?

    Asked by elmo97 to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Andrew Maynard answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi elmo97,

      You must be heading for being the most prolific question-asker 🙂

      Yes, I work with teams all the time. Often, I collaborate with scientists who are experts in areas where I’m not so knowledgeable – so we end up complementing each other.

      Science and technology are so complex these days, that few people can know enough to do well on their own. Plus, all the exciting stuff happens when you are exposed to new ideas from different people!

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      Marianne Baker answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Every day 🙂

      Our lab has about 10 people in it at the moment, though as students graduate, people go off to have babies, new people start… it’s quite a dynamic environment (changes a lot).

      I like working with other people, it’s better than being by myself, though sometimes I do that too.

      It’s one of my favourite things about labs actually, especially this one, as it’s quite open-plan and all the different groups can see each other.

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      anon answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      We have a team in my lab of about 6 individuals and although it’s often difficult to see eye to eye with everyone it definitely is a positive thing overall.

      This is a key question for working in the hospital because there are so many people that have to work together to sort patients out. They call this multi-disciplinary team-working. In the lab you usually just have different ages of scientist in the hospital you have: nurses, physios, occupational therapists, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, radiographers, chiropodists, psychologists, doctors (various), scientists (biochemists, pathologists and haematologists). Team-working is a very important skill and I would say it is essential in medicine and highly desirable in science…(You have to be an incredible genius to do it all yourself!)

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      anon answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi elmo97 – you are busy! Yes, I do work as part of a bigger team which includes safety officers and auditors because I work for the Chief Environmental and Safety Officer for the Royal Navy. Ultimately, I work for an even bigger team, the Royal Navy and we all support the operational requirements we have overseas.:)

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