• Question: what is the hardest part of your job?

    Asked by Nikita Bradshaw to Sinead on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Scientific research is expensive and time consuming.

      The hardest part of my job as a researcher is finding money and the time to do the research I want to do. As scientists we need to apply for funding from the EU or other sources to do our research. It can take many days/weeks to prepare an application so it is really tough when that application is rejected.

      Then it’s back to the drawing board because you have to keep trying.

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