Q Careers
Ten young New Zealand scientists show how their passion and commitment for their work will contribute to New Zealand's sustainable future.
Q Careers takes you to the depths of the ocean seabed, to the lab, and to the bitter cold Antarctic. We visit crime investigations, active volcanoes, and marae.
Find out how science is part of everyday life and how you too could have a career as a scientist and help to shape the future.
Free to educational institutions.
Forensic Scientistsx
RACHEL PARKINSON – Microbial Forensics Scientist, ESR
Rachel is involved in world leading research using dead pigs and studying the bacteria beneath them as a clue to understanding how long something has been dead for. She loves her pigs and gives them all names…Esmeralda, Genevieve… She is doing a PhD and will finish it at The Body Farm in the U.S., where real human bodies that have been donated to science are used to determine time of death through research.
SONYA FRY — Forensic Technician, ESR
Sonya got the opportunity to visit a forensic lab when she was a teenager and that got her hooked for life! She studied specialist subjects in criminology, biology, and microbiology – subjects that would help her get the job she wanted. When jobs came up in the specialist ESR unit, she applied until she got an interview. “I wouldn’t leave until they gave me the job!” She travels to crime scenes and takes all the evidence, from hairs to "probable blood" samples. Her work takes her all over the country and now she has gone overseas to pursue her study and sporting interests.
Rachel is involved in world leading research using dead pigs and studying the bacteria beneath them as a clue to understanding how long something has been dead for. She loves her pigs and gives them all names…Esmeralda, Genevieve… She is doing a PhD and will finish it at The Body Farm in the U.S., where real human bodies that have been donated to science are used to determine time of death through research.
SONYA FRY — Forensic Technician, ESR
Sonya got the opportunity to visit a forensic lab when she was a teenager and that got her hooked for life! She studied specialist subjects in criminology, biology, and microbiology – subjects that would help her get the job she wanted. When jobs came up in the specialist ESR unit, she applied until she got an interview. “I wouldn’t leave until they gave me the job!” She travels to crime scenes and takes all the evidence, from hairs to "probable blood" samples. Her work takes her all over the country and now she has gone overseas to pursue her study and sporting interests.