On
Maternity Leave, doing motherly things
Fiona
Young
My
11 year old son selected to play basketball for the school.
So, today, I went to watch the tournament. His team won 4
out of 5 games - champions!
Presently on maternity leave. Before going to the basketball
tournament, I read
and commented on a literature review submitted by one of my
research students,
and I had a supervisory meeting with one of my PhD students.
Career path: BSc from Glasgow Uni, PGCE from Oxford Uni, emigrated
to South
Australia, worked as laboratory technician then as a research
assistant. Then
graduated with a PhD from Edinburgh Uni, followed by a part-time
post-doc research officer position at Adelaide Uni.
Took position as a lecturer in biotechnology at Flinders Uni
June 1999. Now running a research laboratory in collaboration
with another biotechnology lecturer, and I am supervising
one honours and two PhD students. Second son born Dec 2005.
I will return to work next month.
At high school, I was idealistic and wanted to help solve
worlds problems! Was
influenced by Ethiopian famine and Bob Geldof's 'BandAid'.
When I was 16, I wanted to see the end of famines so decided
to do marine science at uni with the aim of eventually assisting
development of fisheries and production of food.
I ended up in medical research collaborating with local water
industry to develop the means of detecting contaminants in
public water supplies.
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