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Asked by bones to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: About.
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Jamie Pringle answered on 16 Mar 2011:
Hello again bones,
For me it is trying to juggle all my work committments. I do lectures and practicals for undergraduate students, talk at schools and local volunteer groups, help PhD students with their research and undergraduate student projects, do admin, write academic research papers on what we have found out, do field trips, do case work, advise on case work, write research grants to fund further research, etc etc.
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Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 16 Mar 2011:
hi bones
Sometimes balancing the workload with having a life can be a bit difficult. The job can be very busy at different times and keeping a balance is a challenge !
In relation to science and particularly forensic science, we have to be able to explain sometimes very complicated scientific information to a jury of ordinary people and to lawyers in such a way that it can be clearly understood.. that can be quite a challenge as well.
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Mark Hill answered on 17 Mar 2011:
Hi Bones,
Perhaps, on a more broad level, it is reconciling, comparing, witness statements and accounts with the physical evidence and results of my tests, calculations and examinations.
More so when I am in court. If there are several witnesses that say the collision occurred at a certain point in the road and I have identified a vehicle part that broke at impact and created a gouge in the road, at another place, then I must demonstrate how the witnesses are mistaken, because the physical evidence, when sound, must always overrule the opinion of witnesses, however sure they are of their opinion. Witness testimony is notoriously unreliable, because of the brains desire to fill in the gaps of an event that weren’t seen and such like.
I hope that this helps.
Mark.
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Katherine Davies answered on 17 Mar 2011:
Hi
The failed experiments. It gets down heartening when things are just not working the way they should, but you have to keep going and persevere. That is tough, when you can have months of no results! I tend to leave the experiment Im doing, and try something else, coming back to it later. Or speak to someone else about the problem, see if they have suggestions. The answers will be found in the end.
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