• Question: how many years have you been in university to get this job

    Asked by 977parf49 to Mark on 22 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Mark Booth

      Mark Booth answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Hi 997

      I started University in 1987 when I went to Imperial College in London. I finished my undergraduate degree in 1990 and stayed there to do a PhD. I was there until the end of 1993 after which I started working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Tropical Research Institute in Basel (affiliated to Basel University). I then came back to the UK and worked at Cambridge University before moving to Durham University.

      So really I have never left University since I started my first degree.

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  • Photo: Claire

    Claire commented on :

    Hi 997,
    like Mark, I’ve been at a University ever since I left school; first off as a Biology undergraduate student specialising in Immunology at the University of Edinburgh, then a PhD student in Edinburgh and Zimbabwe, then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York and now in London…so so far I’ve been at University for 10 years! Even though I am not a student any more (& luckily don’t have to sit exams!), I am still learning new things all of the time.