• Question: Is your work repetitive or do you find it differs everyday/month/year?

    Asked by anon-223296 to Valerio, Sreejita, Sam, Kate, Anastasia, Adam on 19 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Sreejita Ghosh

      Sreejita Ghosh answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      My work is using maths to make repetitive things be done by the computers so that I can finish my work fast and do fun stuff the rest of the day. I work on a particular problem for a week or two and during those two weeks it’s like solving a sudoku, – so a puzzle solving, not repetitive at all. Then I make a “pipeline” to remove all the “repetitive” parts in a chain of codes which can run smoothly without my interference.

    • Photo: Kate Winfield

      Kate Winfield answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      For me every day is different there is always a new project/data to get stuck into.

    • Photo: Sam Lawrence

      Sam Lawrence answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      Great question. There is definitely a routine, a lot of people have research projects which last a few months and then they move on to a similar but different problem. I work from home and work at the University so that keeps things fresh, also there’s a lot of opportunity to travel for conferences, meetings etc. so that helps too.

    • Photo: Anastasia Aliferi

      Anastasia Aliferi answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      In the last 3 years that I’ve been working on my doctorate I haven’t felt that my work was repetitive at all! However, this year I’m writing my thesis, which is basically a big book on everything I’ve done so far, and that is starting to feel a lot like a routine. On the bright side, I get to be on this event and talk to you and all the other students which is definitely something different 🙂

    • Photo: Adam Wootton

      Adam Wootton answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      It depends on the time of year. We spend 24 weeks of the year teaching, and you do tend to get into a rhythm, but that’s a good thing! During the rest of the year, almost anything could be happening, and you get the opportunity to try all sorts of new things. You get to research whatever you want, do all sorts of wacky new experiments ready for teaching and go to conferences all over the world!

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