• Question: what are the limitations to your work? i.e is funding, equipment and resources a major issue?

    Asked by dennyburling to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Funding funding funding. Ever questing for more funding. Its an especially big problem at the moment with the world wide recession. At the moment we (the collaboration im a part of) are applying for on the order of a million euros to build our next experiment.

    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Always funding…need funding for equipment and resources…one of the limitations to my work at the moment is not having access to a biosafety level 3 laboratory to be able to safely carry out research with more dangerous viruses like Japanese encephalitis virus or West Nile virus.

    • Photo: Simon Park

      Simon Park answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Getting the money to do research. Very difficult these days.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Time! It can difficult to fit in everything you want to do. I’m lucky that my project is well funded, at least just now, but I know funding is almost always the thing holding back so much research.

    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Money in the NHS is very tight at the moment so it’s difficult to bring in new tests and analysers into the lab. You need to to justify exactly why you need the money and we’re forever writing business cases. Management are much stricter on what we can spend money on now.

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