Question: what is your job? and what does it involve

Michael Loughlin answered on 14 Jun 2010:

Right I am a microbiology lecturer

There are a few different parts to my job. Firstly there is teaching.. iteach first second and third year stundets as well as those in Foundation and Masters degrees. So its a huge range of ability, age abd to be honest interest. There will be some people who really just want to get through Microbiology as fast as possible so they can focus on Pharmacy, just like i wanted to get through Plant Physiology in my first year so i could get to Micro.. Nothing wrong with that, we all have out own “thing” we like.
What i try and do is make it as interesting as possible at every level

So as well as teaching at univerity there is a fair amount of outreach, which is where I go and visit school and collges to talk about some part of microbiology, whether its how without micro-organisms there would be no chocolate ( TRUE) or without Tuberculosis it would be unlikely to be any Movie vampires like in Twilight ( they’d all be bald and look like rats) ( Very probably true)

Finally there is research which involves asking questions, designing experiements that will answer the questions fairly, and deciding when you get the results what they actually mean.

Oh and persuading people that they should pay for the experiments to be done, which is sometimes hard when you cannot promise what they will show