• Question: do you have any other scientists as friends?

    Asked by kecfkg to Helen, Jenni, Mark, Martin, Stu on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by jea1253.
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      Jenni Tilley answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      yes, lots. All my housemates are scientists, my boyfriend is a chemist and I have a group of scientists friends at work too. I know lots of non-scientists too though. The benefit of going to Oxford and being a member of a ‘college’ not just a department is that you know lots of people who do lots of things.

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      Mark Burnley answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Yes, my wife is a scientist and so are plenty of my friends. I have plenty of friends who are not scientists though!

    • Photo: Helen O'Connor

      Helen O'Connor answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I have several friends who are sport psychologists, and other types of psychologists – but most of my friends do other jobs. For some reason I know about 10 stand up comediens.

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      Stuart Mourton answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      My friends have a huge range of jobs, some are sports scientists, a few are marine biologists, and then i’ve got an electrician, photographer, policemen, teacher and chef amoungst my other close friends so it’s a big mix!

    • Photo: Martin Lindley

      Martin Lindley answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I have friends from all walks of life but I do have a lot of friends who are scientists.

      My scientist friends are from all over the world, Spain, Austrialia, South Africa, America etc being a scientist allows me to travel to conference around the world and you get to meet people doing similar work in different countries and somtimes you become very good friends.

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