Inside a fledgling research group
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your lab partners…
If an academic research group is a family, an academic’s bookshelf is the family album. Walk into any office and you’ll be confronted with shelves of leather bound theses, each smartly embossed with a gold lettering – a physical timeline of a research group’s story. Not every member of the research family is recorded: the work of postdocs, technicians and undergraduate project students may slip in and out between these tomes. But each of us occupies our own position, and our experiences are uniquely shaped by it.