• Question: @all does the job require you to travel much or is it all at your base?

    Asked by anon-353088 on 6 Mar 2023.
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      Eileen Xu answered on 6 Mar 2023:

      Since I do research, I tend to work from home or at university day-to-day. There are options for travelling though if you want to, such as going to different cities for conferences or to visit other universities. I have a coworker who went to visit a university in Oslo, and I went to Paris last September for a conference!

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      Greta Defeyter answered on 6 Mar 2023:

      I travel a lot to London and all of my field work takes places across the UK and internationally. However, other colleagues work from their labs at the university, so it really depends on what your research topic is and how you choose to approach it.

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      Emily McDougal answered on 7 Mar 2023: last edited 7 Mar 2023 8:13 am

      It depends on the research topic, individual project, and the phase of the project! My research mostly involves collecting data with children and young people, which requires me to visit schools or sometimes people’s homes. Right now, I’m in the phase of the project where I’m analysing the data we collected, so I’m working from home and in my office at the University. I also get the opportunity to travel out of the UK for conferences, where I present the findings of my research to other researchers. I’ve been lucky enough to visit The Netherlands, Belgium, France and even Japan as part of my job!

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      Stephen Jackson answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      As an academic psychologist I get to travel a great deal (sometimes too much). As a result I have travelled wide and far and I have even lived abroad (in the USA and in South Korea) as part of my work as a Psychologist.

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      Katie Allen answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      I tend to work between home and University on a day to day basis. Since I’m involved in research there is the opportunity to go away to conferences in other cities/countries (I’m going to a conference in Loughborough in June, for example) or you can go and do a period of work at a different University too sometimes.

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      Joanne Cummings answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      I am primarily based in Glasgow where I work, sometimes I travel for conferences or work related meetings but this doesn’t happen too often, which suits my personal life.

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      Birsu Kandemirci answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      My day-to-day job is based at the university, and sometimes I work from home. However, my research focuses on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic elements, which means I get to travel to the country where I collect data from children. In addition to this, and as others have already said, there are conferences to attend which is a great way to visit a city/country and meet researchers there, or invited talks where I go to another university to talk about my research. I like that my work lets me travel occasionally 🙂

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      Hannah Fawcett answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      I’m based in Manchester on a day-to-day basis although I tend to work from home a couple of days a week. As my research is a team effort, we all collect data near to us so I don’t need to travel a lot for that. I do travel to conferences, events and workshops a few times a year though. This is usually one international conference (Italy, Belgium, Holland, Sweden etc.) and a couple of trips to London or Birmingham each year.

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      Imogen Green answered on 7 Mar 2023:

      I tend to work from home half of the week and at university half of the week, which is about half an hour from where I live. There is not that much travelling involved day-to-day but I will hopefully travel to some different places to go to conferences over the next few years.

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      Kirsten Russell answered on 8 Mar 2023:

      Most of my time is spent at the university in Glasgow. However, when I am collecting data for my research project, I am really lucky that I get to travel across Scotland to gather information and learn from people in different parts of the country. This has meant that I have seen parts of Scotland, that I had not had the chance to visit before, which is great. I also travel for conferences, and have been to the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA for research visits, to work with other researchers!

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