What is it like around you where you work?

Question: What is it like around you where you work?
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Asked by anon-185897 to Verity, Trystan, Raquel, Danny, Catherine, Andy on 10 Nov 2018.
- Raquel Medialdea Carrera answered on 10 Nov 2018:
  
  I tend to work in different places and I travel quite a bit, so it is always different! At the moment I am working in Malta, in a lovely place with beautiful views of the sea. In my office, there are another 10 others including nurses, doctors, biologists and technicians.
  I also work at the University frequently. The University is lovely with really lovely buildings. 🙂
- Danny Ward answered on 11 Nov 2018:
  
  I work in Norwich at the Norwich Research Park and the University of East Anglia. I work in a lab group of around 10 people. Our group is part of a department of around 150 people. Our entire site consists of many hundreds/thousands of scientists and technical staff.
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  Its a nice working environment. People are friends, knowledgeable and are always happy to help with questions you may have. Much of the work is independently driven. By that I mean, I get to decide what experiments I do in a day. I have a boss, my research supervisor but their role is not to give orders but more as someone to go to for advice with your research.
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  Norwich itself is a lovely city to live and work in. It has a lot of things going on, its very historical and nice to look at and its not too expensive like some parts of the country. I consider myself to be very luck to be here!
- Verity Hill answered on 11 Nov 2018:
  
  I live and work in Edinburgh in Scotland!
  
  I work in the university, in the zoology department. It’s a beautiful old building with animals carved into the outside of the building in stone. It has quite a grand entrance with a big staircase with animals carved into the bannisters, and photographs and pictures of people that have been professors there. My office is big with high ceilings and huge windows. I share it with two other PhD students and a post-doc (which is the job you do after you finish your PhD), and we chat and help each other a lot! We also have a coffee room just next door where every morning at 10.30 pretty much the whole department has coffee, and sits and chats about random things. I love it!
  
  Edinburgh is a great city, it’s friendly, not too big, and with loads going on. I love living there a lot – I far prefer it to London! The only drawback is that the days are shorter than in the south of England in the winter, but then they are a lot longer in the summer, so it balances out!
- Trystan Leng answered on 12 Nov 2018:
  
  I work in the ‘maths for real-world systems’ centre for doctoral training at Warwick University. Here, many PhD students are trained, all working on different researchers trying to apply maths to the real world. Some examples are traffic control, neuroscience, crowd movement, evolution, and infectious diseases to name only a few! Because of this it is a really interesting and vibrant place to work.

Question: What is it like around you where you work?

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