Senior Research Associate
University of Dundee
"We need people coming into the unit and feeling they're achieving something when they leave the unit."
Career Path
Learn more about careers in ImagingI started my career as a technician for 19 years, and then I did a work-based masters degree that allowed me to go above the glass ceiling on the technical scale and I then became an experimental officer.
Recognition
Learn more about Recognition of Imaging ScienceI think once you are off the technical scale and you are more on the academic research scales then I think it's essential that you have publications. You're not going to progress otherwise as this is an academic institution and that's how they and/or you are measured.
Team Science
Learn the benefits of Team ScienceWe were the Department of Metallurgy, and we just dealt with metallurgists and maybe a few ceramicists. Gradually our remit has expanded. So now our customer base - the people that use the unit - come from across the university not just the physical sciences but also some of the biological sciences as well. So very much interdisciplinary.
Funding
Learn more about Funding in Imaging ScienceWithout the finance and the technology, you're not going to have any publications.