![]() ![]() So, we are interested in sort of interfacing between science and engineering and so we do basic science understanding of how materials – mostly metals – perform. I bet! Tell me a little bit about what you and your team do. That is a big activity – a lot of people to look after. I have a team of – at the moment – there’s four postdoctoral researchers, there’s about eleven PhD students and there’s four Master’s students in my group at the moment. A few years ago, Ben started using Slack to communicate with his team, and he says that it’s changed the way that he now manages them. Now, over the years, his team has become quite substantial and so it’s become more and more difficult to keep up to date with every member. His research focuses on understanding materials for aerospace, oil and gas, and nuclear power applications. He’s a senior lecturer and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow based at Imperial College London. So, in this fifth episode of our technology series, I wanted to look a little more at how technologies are changing the way that labs are being run and teams are being managed, and I met with Ben Britton. But there is another way that technology is having an impact on research. ![]() Researchers across all fields – not just in science – are needing to develop this skill in order to delve deeper into their data and develop the tools they need to test their hypotheses. Now, the biggest one so far – in my opinion anyway – is the fact that coding has become ubiquitous. ![]() Throughout this series on technology and science, I’ve been finding people to talk about what technologies have changed the way science is being done. Hello, I’m Julie Gould and this is Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. ![]()
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