• Question: have you Won any awards for your work

    Asked by udtasteve to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Nothing major, at some meetings there are prizes for the best talk or the best poster presentation (this might be a prize such as £100) and I have won a few of these.

    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Not yet!

    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I won a prize for getting a senior scientist to start a web log (“blog”.) Blogging technology is interesting in science because it can be a useful way of communicating science with wider audiences. It can also be used as a laboratory notebook – logging experiments that you are doing.

      The difficult part is deciding which parts of your laboratory notebook to make public. Some people make their whole notebook public to anyone and everyone on the web (very brave) while traditionally most scientists are very secretive about their work until they publish the results in a recognised journal. They keep their notebooks very private, only sharing results with a small number of colleagues.

      My boss at the time was interested in the idea of using blogging to talk about his work – you can read his blog at http://blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk/

    • Photo: Deuan Jones

      Deuan Jones answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Well I’ve won a couple of prizes for presenting work – so the prize is kinda for a combination of how well you present the work and the work you’ve actually done. One of these was very unfair as I got the prize for a poster about my work and the prize was that I had to give a talk about it the next day at a conference!

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Not so far but it’s always nice to get recognition for what you do so hopefully I might do soon.

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