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What’s in a work space? Jimmy Bell and art, fencing and fat

A version of this article was first published in the Winter 2014 edition of Network. The post What’s in a work space? Jimmy Bell and art, fencing and fat appeared first on insight.

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Made to measure

The vibrating razor cutting a thin slice of mouse brain Carrying out pioneering research can require unusual custom-made kit. Katherine Nightingale speaks to some of the people who work in scientific...

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Working life: Susan Gathercole

Susan Gathercole Professor Susan Gathercole is the Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Here she tells us about her working life, from her roots in psychology to the...

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What’s in a work space? Ian Deary and his unique furnishings

Ian Deary and his standing desk Ian Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing-funded Centre for Cognitive Ageing and...

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Front line operations: MRC fieldworkers in The Gambia

Forming the front line of research operations, fieldworkers carry out a vital role in the work of the MRC’s unit in The Gambia. Ashwin Mehta, from the MRC resilience team, supports training in the...

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What’s in a work space? Lori Passmore and her images of science

Dr Lori Passmore is head of the Mechanisms of Macromolecular Machines group in the Structural Studies Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). She showed Isabel Baker around her shiny...

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Working life: Richard Coward

Dr Richard Coward is an MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and Head of Research for the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Here he tell us about his working life from spending time with...

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Working life: Carol Robinson

Professor Dame Carol Robinson is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Here she tells us about her working life, from becoming fascinated with mass spectrometry to the inspirational role...

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Working life: Stefan Neubauer

Cardiologist Professor Stefan Neubauer has invented a test for chronic liver disease which could cut diagnosis time from weeks to a single day. Here he tells us about his working life and what it’s...

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Opinion: Going public with your research

The Open Science movement encourages scientists to make their materials, data and publications freely available for the good of everyone. Professor Marcus Munafò of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology...

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