• Question: do you travel alot to help you with your reasearch

    Asked by tomm to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by denhamal08, alexf.
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      Sally Barber answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I’ve been able to travel quite a bit to present my work at conferences. I’ve been to Athen, Madrid, New Orleans and Northern Ireland and to different cities around the England. I also did some work up in Glasgow for a couple of weeks collecting data on how health the arteries of a group of children were. I’m hoping to live in Canada for 6 months next year to learn from a group of dementia experts before I start a new project looking at how exericse can prevent dementia.

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      Peter Styring answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I travel a lot. Most of the time it’s great, but when it’s long haul with lots of changes it gets tiring. I work with Atomic Skis in Austria so get to travel out to the alps to work. The mountain is my laboratory! I went to Utah, in the States last year to a conference and managed to ski Solitude, Brighton Mountain and Deer Valley resorts!

    • Photo: Sian Lawson

      Sian Lawson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I mostly travel for conferences, which can take me anywhere – In the last few years I’ve been to Taiwan, Costa Rica, South Africa, and all over Europe and the USA.

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      Rebecca Randell answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Although I work at the University of Birmingham I get paid by a company in Holland therefore I have been there to have meetings- which isn’t that exciting but it is nice to get out of “sunny” Birmingham.

      I have travelled to help my colleagues with research. A woman in my department was giving questionnaires out to triathletes who were competing all over the world. Unfortunately for her (but lucky for me) she couldn’t go to Hawaii or Germany to collect data. They didn’t have to ask me twice to go and I spent a week in both countries sunbathing, sightseeing …… oh and collecting data for her.

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      Sally Fenton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I have not had the chance to travel yet….only to the other side of Birmingham and back! But once I start writing up the results from my research … I will have to travel around to let other scientists know what have found. I will get to do this at conferences (conferences are basically where a load of scientists get together who are interested about the same sort of thing and tell each other about their research). They are usually held in a nice location…sometimes as far as China!

      This would be something I would maybe be able to put the money towards so more people all over the world can find out about and benefit from my research 🙂

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