• Question: how long have you researched this for

    Asked by 775epdj46 to Kevin, Liz, Beccy, Rosie on 9 Jun 2017.
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      anon answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      After finishing my PhD (in 1992), I went to Edinburgh and worked as a lecturer in a maths/stats department (University of Edinburgh) for three years. I taught undergraduates, studied the spread of HIV/AIDS in Scotland and decided I wanted to move to an epidemiology group (rather than being the only one studying disease spread in a maths/stats department).

      In 1995 I joined my current Infectious Disease Epidemiology group – originally we were in Oxford (1995-2000) and since 2000 we’ve been at Imperial College London. I’ve studied mad cow disease (BSE), foot and mouth disease, SARS, influenza, Ebola, MERS, bovine TB, dengue, rabies… Each disease and setting (where and who is infected) poses new challenges for us to understand.

    • Photo: Kevin Pollock

      Kevin Pollock answered on 9 Jun 2017:

      I have worked in infectious diseases for 17 years.

    • Photo: Rosie Fok

      Rosie Fok answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      I started medical school in 1997, so this year is twenty years. Wow, that makes me feel old!

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      Rebecca Corkill answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      Well I am only 25, so my science career is relatively new. I started university 7 years ago (still have 2 more left before I complete my PhD).

      If you think about the part of epidemiology that deals with possible control of diseases (plant diseases in my case) than I have been doing research for 1 year and 8 months.

      On another note this is what I looked like when I was close to that age (1 year and 8 months). I am the one in the middle/ the only baby.

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      Liz Buckingham-Jeffery answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      I haven’t been doing this kind of work for that long. I’m only 27, and have been doing my research on norovirus since October 2013. So for just over 3 and a half years.

      I actually won’t be working on this norovirus project for much longer, probably only the next few months. Then I’ll be moving on to work on using maths and statistics to understand how to treat cancer.

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