BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX All Professor Phil Dale wanted to do when he was growing up was to follow in his father's footsteps and become a farmer. But even as it has taken him far away from that dream, Dale's career has nonetheless brought him close to the heart of farming issues. Today, Dale is a group leader in the department of crop genetics at the John Innes Centre in Norwich and an honorary ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Can you have a career in money laundering and drug trafficking and still stay on the right side of the law? Yes, if your job is to the catch the bad guys! When Phillip Cheasley * (see photo at left) completed his 3-year degree in natural sciences at the University of Bath, UK, he didn?t really know what he wanted to do. After 6 months of temping and applying for a variet...
When you decide, as I did a couple of years into my PhD, that your future doesn't lie in the lab, getting to where you do want to be can seem hard. The secret is not to believe that you have to leap directly into your 'dream job'. You can find steppingstones that take you in the right direction. Having completed my doctorate last year, I've now been working in a completely different environment f...
