• Question: do you think your work will ever take you anywhere other than the your home country?

    Asked by bboyd945 to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 1 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Alistair McConnell

      Alistair McConnell answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      This was actually a reason I went into my current job! I have worked in Natal in Brazil as part of my PhD, presented my work in New York in USA, Segovia in Spain and Florence in Italy. There are conferences all around the world for robotics that I can present work at and dependant on what project I do I could spend a year in one country and then back in the UK. The options are huge.

    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 2 Mar 2019:

      I really hope so! There are lots of reasons to travel out of the UK when you’re a researcher: sometimes it’s for conferences to present your work to other people and hear about their work. It might be because other people on your team work in another part of the world. Also, your project may involve people in other countries. Right now I’m working with the military to improve prosthetic limbs, but one day I’d like to help children in countries across the world who need prosthetic limbs who can’t get them because they can’t afford them. Lots of opportunities and reasons to travel abroad in research. Maybe one day I’ll live abroad because I work at a university across the world.

    • Photo: Mark Bentley

      Mark Bentley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      It does.

      Sweden 3 times last year, Denmark last week, also Vienna and Germany.

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      For me, it’s very funny because I’m already outside of my home country 🙂 but I do travel for conferences or project meetings to other countries. But you can always choose to go to another country and work somewhere else if you like a bit of adventure like me. There are loads of opportunities around the world.

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