• Question: What sort of environments do you work in?

    Asked by Emma to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 8 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by nilpach, Pras.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 8 Mar 2017:


      I work in an office (it’s quite nice) in big lecture theatres with lots of students, in vets practices and arenas and stables where I can test horse behaviour.

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 8 Mar 2017:


      I worked for the last 12 months at zoos around the UK and Ireland – either outside by the elephant paddocks or inside the barns. Now I am based in an office watching video footage. I occasionally do work in laboratories too.

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 8 Mar 2017:


      Where I work depends on what I’m doing. For my phd I ran my experiments at a marine research station on the west coast of the Sweden, at the entrance of Sweden’s only real fjord. Then I moved to Switzerland and started working with meerkats, which involved 18 months of field work in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Now, in Bristol, I’m working with fish in the lab so I get a room covered in tanks top to bottom all to myself. When I’m not running experiments I work at my desk in an office with 17 other people.

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 9 Mar 2017:


      I mainly study birds in farmland and woodland. But I also do some science with fish behaviour – I do this in our university’s aquarium

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 13 Mar 2017:


      The awesome tropical forest of Malaysia! Its simply beautiful.

      When I’m back in Oxford teaching and analysing my data, the charming old building of Oxford makes it a conducive environment to work in. Simply amazing!

      https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/files/oxford/styles/ow_large_feature/public/field/field_image_main/College-UG-index.jpg?itok=h2wqWff5

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