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Asked by anon-260560 on 12 Oct 2020.
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James Smallcombe answered on 12 Oct 2020:
Probably not as much as I should/would like. It depends what you mean by study. I spend more than half of my days studying science in one form or another, most of that is spent looking at my data and analysing it by writing computer programs and trying to understand what it tells me. I probably spend at most an hour a day studying work that has been done by other people, reading scientific papers or text books, listening to talks. Every day is different and I might have a day that is all reading.
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Allyson Lister answered on 13 Oct 2020:
Good question! My answer is similar to James’. Once you’re in a job, “studying” starts meaning something a little different. I spend about 80% of my time actually doing my work, and the rest of the time reading other people’s research, writing up my work, and having meetings. So I guess a good estimate of my “studying” time would be about 10%.
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Will Davison answered on 13 Oct 2020:
It definitely varies. Some days I’ll spend all day either running experiments or thinking about what my results mean or reading about other people experiments. Other days I’ll spend all day doing admin type jobs like ordering new chemicals or buying new bits of equipment for my experiments. So it really depends what I’m doing on a given day how much I’m spending “studying”.
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Sonia Rodriguez answered on 14 Oct 2020:
It changes from day to day, and also depending on the period. There are periods in which I have a lot of lab-based work and I only have time to “study” for one or two hours a week and periods in which I can spend the whole week reading about what other people has done and writing my own results or projects.
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