• Question: How many people do you work with on a daily basis?

    Asked by spitfirekmj to Rik, Mohamed, Alex on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Rik Allen

      Rik Allen answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Hi,
      My immediate team is about 10 in this office – with another 5 that I have share some work with. Add in another team of 5 in Southampton, the customer that we work with closely, and the other 100 or so on site – there is no shortage of people to talk to.

    • Photo: Alex Shenfield

      Alex Shenfield answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      There are approximately 15 people I work reasonably closely with and I share an office with 4 others! However, the majority of what I do (lecture preparation, research, building stuff) I do on my own rather than in a team – though we do bounce ideas off each other.

      Academics are not very good at collaboration – if you try and get them to work together they tend to fight like cats and dogs!

      I also manage (and I use the term loosely …) a course team of approximately 20 other academics. What this means in practice though is that they do the fun stuff and I do the paperwork 🙁

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