• Question: Do you spend your money on new instruments for your investigations?

    Asked by kerar1 to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: James M Monk

      James M Monk answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      No, I don’t usually spend my own money on funding the parts – that money comes from things like research councils and universities – experimental apparatus can be extremely expensive and I couldn’t afford it!

      I do sometimes buy things like a hard disk (for storing data), laptop etc, but I would probably have that even if I was not doing research.

    • Photo: Ceri Brenner

      Ceri Brenner answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I’m the same as James.
      We have funding from the research councils (that comes from UK goverment originally) that is allocated to research scientists who have written a proposal and had it accepted. In the proposal they have to state how the money is going to be spent and it’s normal to budget a certain amount on equipment that we’ll need to carry out the experiments and analysis. So no, fortunately I never need to spend my own money.

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