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Carboneras was good, Assynt was more horizontal rain though!
For the final year mapping project, I took Jon Turner's set piece of the Gallego gorge in the Spanish Pyrenees, which was 2 months of Trekking round hot hillsides, white water rafting as we got to know a rafting club in the gorge, and a trip to Pamplona being chased by angry cows.
For the final year mapping project, I took Jon Turner's set piece of the Gallego gorge in the Spanish Pyrenees, which was 2 months of Trekking round hot hillsides, white water rafting as we got to know a rafting club in the gorge, and a trip to Pamplona being chased by angry cows.
XJSsometimeSoon said:
rhinochopig said:
hairykrishna said:
XJSsometimeSoon said:
TheEnd said:
BSc in Geology from Birmingham, but I haven't done much with it apart from spend more time than normal looking for fossils.
Small world, I did my degree at Birmingham and doing my PhD there too.Off topic, how long has there been a Science section? I have completely missed this one.
I have a mate who works there running one of the courses. They say that general morale is terrible for staff at the moment; really really terrible. I guess it depends on the dept you'd be working in but worth checking out before you commit to a PD.
Great Uni to study at.
Summer time sat outside the SU bar.It's a great uni but there seems to be an increasing resentment of the central structure and admin. There's a bit of a sense that they're pissing money away while groups throughout the university are struggling to find enough funding to keep even basic stuff going. Not sure it's much better anywhere else though to be honest.
hairykrishna said:
It's a great uni but there seems to be an increasing resentment of the central structure and admin. There's a bit of a sense that they're pissing money away while groups throughout the university are struggling to find enough funding to keep even basic stuff going. Not sure it's much better anywhere else though to be honest.
Brum is one of the poorer places to be staff at the moment from I here. My O/H has close links with one of the NE Universities (she was staff at one point when we first moved up here and now accepts doctoral students) and things are definitely better there than at Brum, for the very reasons you mention. ... Same in Sussex, which was another well regarded university for science; morale is rock bottom and the cuts in research funding means It's not what it was a few years ago. This is the same university that wanted to close It's Chemistry department to save money. Having just opened a new medical school and having courses that chemistry is pretty much hands on.... Many wondered at the 'logic' of some of the bean counters.
I wonder sometimes how much more we can devalue education in this country.
I wonder sometimes how much more we can devalue education in this country.
llewop said:
BSc Chemistry, for many years was a Health Physicist (still am I suppose) now a Radiation Protection Adviser.
Most of what I do I don't think of as being 'science' but my brother once introduced me to some of his friends as 'my brother; the boffin'
You got off lightly, when I worked in Counting, a good few years ago now, I had bother trying to explain what I do to relations at family functions, cue lots of blank looks, then one Uncle pipes up "Oh! Like Homer Simpson?". Most of what I do I don't think of as being 'science' but my brother once introduced me to some of his friends as 'my brother; the boffin'
RizzoTheRat said:
Used to be a research scientist for the government (combustion research for jet engines after a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Loughborough) but had a change of trade some years back and am now an operational analyst which is still a bit sciencey but not a true scientist.
Cool another loughborough bod. Been there since 2004, MEng mech and now PhD ( after working for a year). Bout ready to leave like, had enough of this little town. But 2 more years to go!!Use Psychology said:
I know we have many interested and very knowledgeable members here, but just out curiosity, I wondered if in amongst all of the IT bods, accountants and lawyers, there are any scientists with PH membership? Please feel free to introduce yourself... my name is mike and i'm a chemist.
Oi, Computer Science. 
Hi All, I'm a Chemist/Geologist, graduated from Keele in 1991, then went into secondary science teaching. Some of the experiments we can do are good fun, but the health and safety police have taken most of the really good stuff!
Still, it just makes things a bit more challenging to motivate/enthuse the little darlings with the content we have left!
Still, it just makes things a bit more challenging to motivate/enthuse the little darlings with the content we have left!
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