I don't remember wearing a lab coat for GCSE science. In fact, we can't
have done, because there was an incident with someone melting their
blazer to their arm during a confrontation with a bunsen burner... When
I started A level biology and chemistry, I did feel proud to finally be
allowed to wear a lab coat.
Personalisation of lab coats only happened during my undergrad years.
They were coloured in, drawn on, transformed into mock football strip
and became the bearers of poetry. I did feel a bit of a fraud though.
I only really felt comfortable and 'real' when I was doing my PhD. At
this point it was lab benches which were personalised, not the lab
coats. It was also during my PhD that I got to wear a blue 'tissue
culture' type labcoat for demonstrating to undergrads, which I felt even
more grown up in.
Does anyone else find that, when working with visitors (both young and
old) to labs, they are often most excited by wearing lab coats, rather
than the visit/workshop itself? Maybe it's a uniform thing ...
Annabel
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Annabel Cook BSc (Hons)
Science Engagement and Communications Officer
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Roosevelt Drive
Oxford
OX3 7BN
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Tel: 01865 287649
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