• Question: What are you currently working on?

    Asked by anon-193419 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 11 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Carl Heron

      Carl Heron answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      One project that I have been supporting is the study of an elaborate costume from Tahiti. The costume was used by the chief mourner in rituals when a person died. The costume was brought back to England by Captain Cook in the late 18th century. It will go on display in an exhibition at the British Museum in a few weeks time. It is a remarkable costume made from many different materials – barkcloth, shell, wood, feathers and so on.

    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      I am working on 3 different respiratory clinical trials.
      1) A study for a new tablet for chronic cough
      2) A study for a new inhaler for asthma
      3) An observational study that looks how patients take current medications to treat their asthma or COPD

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      I work on lots of different projects at once, the 3 main ones are:
      1) a project trying to find out what outcomes (i.e. what to measure in clinical trials) are important to patients with Huntington’s disease
      2) a project aiming to find out what we should measure to make sure that patients understand they are taking part in a clinical trial (this is called consent)
      3) a project to find out how we can make sure that patients stay in clinical trials once they have signed up – this is important because if people sign up and then drop out, it can be very difficult to get data that is useful to answer our research questions.

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      I am currently looking at the all of the tracking data I have collected over the last 22 years. I am hoping to see how the seals that I have studied have changed their behaviour, in the face of climate change.
      We have already seen how warming temperatures have altered the genetics of these seals and how the numbers of pups being born on our study beach as gone down. I hope to study how the animals have changed the way they search for and hunt their food over the last few decades. This will help us predict what is likely to happen as temperatures continue to increase, and help us conserve them and other Antarctic wildlife

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