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Asked by BIG L to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 10 Nov 2014.
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Laura Schofield answered on 10 Nov 2014:
The beauty of doing a PhD is that no one has ever done the work before! We all work on completely different things but all use spectroscopy to see what molecules we have. Personally, I break big molecules into smaller ones in high temperature and high pressure water but use spectroscopy to see what molecules I have made.
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Matthew Camilleri answered on 10 Nov 2014:
Science is a vast subject, and this allows for thousands of people to be doing science at the same time while doing completely different things.
It must be noted that the same problem can be tackled by a group of different people that would approach it differently and come up with different solutions, making their work completely different.
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Rebecca Ingle answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I think the more you study science and the more advanced you become, it can be a little difficult to mix different fields together (unless you’re working in an area where two fields naturally cross) as you need so much very specialised knowledge. However, I do a mixture of computational and experimental work which are very different, and even work on a few different kinds of laser experiments but it all fall under looking at how molecules fall apart when you shine laser light on them.
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Andrew McKinley answered on 11 Nov 2014:
I suspect that if you put the five of us in a room, we would quickly establish a project that we could all work on together, but we would each be bringing a bit of our own specialism to the table.
There are different fields in science, and to be honest, every scientist occupies their own space in a given field. Nobody will be doing exactly the same work, because research dictates that we should be doing ‘new work, supported by previous findings of our own past work and that of others’.
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