• Question: What is the best area of your job in your oppinion?

    Asked by anon-234315 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 9 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-233919, anon-234522, anon-234521, anon-234552, anon-233854.
    • Photo: Liam Wignall

      Liam Wignall answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      As a lecturer, I get to conduct research and do teaching. I think the teaching I do is my favourite – I’m teaching a lecture next week on what dating profiles look like and how people edit the information they put on them to look more appealing. I get to have some really interesting conversations with students about these topics – watching students learn and seeing them start to ask their own questions about a topic is very rewarding.

    • Photo: Jack Joyce

      Jack Joyce answered on 10 Nov 2019:

      For me, it’s research — it’s exciting to discover new things about the world that no one knows about! Discovering patterns of how people behave, or identifying the ‘invisible’ structures of talk is really difficult so when I find something new it’s really fulfilling, and it makes me feel like I’m contributing something to the world.

    • Photo: Debbie Kinsey

      Debbie Kinsey answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      It’s two things:
      1. Getting to talk to people about their experiences and thinking about how that might help other people
      2. Getting to do lots of different interesting things so no two days are the same – I work with people with dementia doing research, teach students, find out new things, meet new people – it’s great.

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