• Question: How long have you been a biologist?

    Asked by anon-193081 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 5 Nov 2018.
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      Iain Staniland answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      I have worked as a biologist at the British Antarctic Survey for almost 22 years now (time flies when you are having fun). But I guess I was a biologist even before someone paid me to do it as I was doing biology at school and simply carried on through university, my PhD and now my paid job.

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      Emma Crawford answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      I’ve never actually been a biologist! I haven’t studied biology since my GCSES 11 years ago! However I have been working as a statistician in drug development for the last 4 years since completing my masters degree in medical statistics.

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      Carl Heron answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I’m really a chemist…..or rather an archaeologist for uses chemistry to find out things about the past. I was hopeless at biology at school and just scraped a pass at A-level. Since then I have become more and more interested in biology. I love reading about evolution and I’m very interested in Charles Darwin and the approaches he took before coming up with his theory of natural selection.

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I studied Biology at GCSE and A level, and then did lots of Biology modules at university, but I don’t think I’d ever describe myself as a Biologist – there is so much about the subject that I don’t know!

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