On a typical day, I wake up just before 8am and the first thing I do is check the weather (don’t ask why, it’s a habit!) and then emails. I’m at my desk between 8.45 and 9.15am and continue with emails and preparing for meetings. I work with a lot of international people so sometimes meetings are at funny hours. I try to prioritise tasks each day and I have a white board for notes.
As my PhD is half ecology and half engineering, it can be a little tricky to flit between the two, so I tend to have pure engineering days and pure ecology days (or at least split by am/pm). I sometimes have to go into the lab to carry out building work on the drones, but have recently built a little workshop at home. I’ll have a short lunch break, maybe play some video games, and then back to work. I run or go to the yard to ride my loan horse in the afternoons (or sometimes do this before work). I am active on social media and will monitor science and engineering news on it throughout the day. I am on the PhD Social Support Committee as the Academic Development Coordinator, so I may have a bit of work to do for that too. I am nearly always in bed by 10pm!