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I’m a lecturer in environmental chemistry which means I teach people about the pollution they might face every day like fumes from cars or noise from machinery or land which is polluted with chemicals.

Tuesday is my busiest day of the week.  In the morning I arrive in my office at 7.15 and I check my e-mails, I then go for a coffee to make sure I am awake before I start teaching.

My first class is at 11am but before I go in I have to make sure that I have marked all the tests the students have done and I mark their coursework.  In the class they sit and ask me any questions they want about the work I asked them to complete before they turned up.

After the class I have a big lunch as I then have a four hour lab session with other students – they get to do experiments which involve big flames (which change colour depending on the chemicals present) and liquids that change colour as they add more chemicals.