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My PhD is, working title, 
'Into Individual Differences

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and Responses to 
Homeostatic Challenges'.

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So I come from a
background of nutrition.

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And if you know anything
about nutrition,

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I guess most, even
everybody in the street

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will realise that it's complex.

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One thing works for one
person, but not for another.

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There's so many factors
that go into it.

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So, it just is interdisciplinary
by its nature.

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So, without too much
trouble, I have

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to collaborate with
other people because I'm

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having to delve in and
use some sports science

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paradigms to test things out.

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I'm having to go,

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I'm interested in
how cognition plays

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a role, so I have to go and speak
to the psychology technician.

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And it's just impossible for me
to become a super expert in all

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of these different things.

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So, then the beauty
of it is then, so I

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do my research, and my
review of the literature

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as best I can, but then I rely
on a team of amazing people

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from different parts
in the university.

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When I've worked on very
big, international projects,

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with several universities
contributing or carrying

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out certain bits of the analysis, or
different arms of the trial,

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it will be the
chief investigator,

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or the principal
investigator who

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will be storing that
information centrally,

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and then you get
dished out your access

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to your little
piece of the puzzle

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that you're working
on, as part of a PhD

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or a master student or a
post-doc or research assistant,

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part of a big team.

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So then, it's really
important to, although you

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feel very pressured in terms
of trying to get the work done,

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you have to take a
step back, and think

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about how it's
getting stored and how

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it's going to be shared.

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And that if you don't
follow things, and introduce

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some idiosyncrasies
into that datasheet,

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it's just a nightmare for
somebody at the other end

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to make sense of.

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I had to complete an NHS
ethics application, which

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is a very involved task.

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And so, right from the
outset, something very simple

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was in terms of who do I
need to get ethics from,

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and how are those two
processes mapping up?

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So the university said, hey,
you don't need our ethics,

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you'll get NHS ethics.

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NHS ethics said, you have
to get university ethics

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before you can get our ethics.

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So that was one example.

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And that required me,
sometimes verbatim,

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to basically
communicate, and pass

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on that information between
the different offices.