Georgina Glover

"Investigator - my day to day work follows a very clear and logical process in order to test hypotheses via novel experimental methodologies. Working successfully in scientific research includes collaboration, for example, writing journal articles for scientific journals. My research group has daily discussions over lunch about our work, encouraging each other and feeding other peoples’ ideas to allow them to fulfil their full potential. Having completed a BSc in STEM, I had to memorise and remember lots of facts and now use this knowledge to piece together original research in to my area of expertise. However, a wider understanding is also necessary when pitching my work to scientific journals and speaking about my work to colleagues during cross/multi-disciplinary talks/seminars. Coordinator - In order to complete my PhD research successfully I have to ensure I am very organised and pay great attention to detail. However, I also have to coordinate my work alongside undergraduate/master student who I help to co-supervise. I meet/communicate with them regularly about how their work is going and suggest ways that they could proceed or perhaps improve their experimental work. This work also includes having to coordinate them so they are able to finish their final year projects before their deadline and obtain good results. Manager - I often manage my research group in terms of rotas for making communal chemical/drug stocks and communication with technical services, to allow the smooth running of our laboratory work. I am a notorious list making and planner - this enables me to efficiently complete all of my research alongside teaching and maintaining my social life."

"I am a PhD researcher/candidate in Biomedical Physics, which broadly involves me thinking of questions in my field of expertise that haven’t been answered by science yet. I do experiments to find answers to these questions and then write about it. This role usually only lasts 4 years and within that time I will hopefully have discovered new information that humankind doesn’t yet know of and have this work published in scientific journals. The experimental work in the laboratory is what I love the most, especially the moment when you finally get an experiment to produce results or discover something completely unexpected. It's very exciting! After completing my PhD I'll be able to apply to jobs all over the world. Post doctoral positions are normally the next step inside of Academia and from there I can progress up to becoming a Principle Investigator of a research group, a lecturer at a University and perhaps one day, a Professor."

"My parents inspired me to work as hard as I could, never give up and always strive to be better and learn more: every day this mantra is in the back of my mind. I have no doubt that they inspired my work ethic and my passion for knowledge. I was also lucky enough to have some amazing teachers whilst at high school, including some phenomenal women in STEM who showed me that women can go and study a STEM subject and I wouldn't be the only girl in the room if I did."

"There are many facets to this role however here are the main ones: planning experimental work - carrying out experimental work in a laboratory - analysing all of the data collected from experiments, synthesising data into figures (graphs/tables/etc), reading primary literature about my area of research, writing reports about literature I have read/my own research (this also includes writing my own journal papers), co-supervising undergraduate students in the laboratory for their final year projects, teaching other undergraduates students in the module based laboratory sessions, marking undergraduate assignments and attending meetings regarding my research."

"Secondary education (GCSE/O-Levels) GCSEs: All core subjects A-A* Welsh A German A History A* Music A* Religious Education A Post secondary education (College, A-levels, NVQ3 or equivalent) * AS level: Maths -C A level: Geology - A, Biology - B, Chemistry - CUndergraduate degree (BSc, BA, etc.) BSc Biological Sciences (Molecular and Cellular Biology) - 2:1Learning and Teaching in Higher Education levels 1&2 Online courses in programming and modelling."