Question: What made you want to become a Research Assistant?

Stuart Mourton answered on 13 Jun 2011:

Hi, I am really enjoying my current role as i get to really focus on collecting data, analysing the results and planning where i think my area of investigation should go next! I’m sure your teachers would agree that teaching takes up a lot more time than it would seem to students, so at the moment it’s nice not to have to worry about planning lectures and marking coursework. However my RA post is for a fixed length of time, and when it finishes there is a good chance i will continue doing my research but also do some teaching at Uni level too.
Ever since i started my University course in Sports Science though i’ve know i wanted to either carry out research into sport and performance or teach it!