Matthew is a financial analyst for IBM, he discusses his role in this video. Matthew performs analysis on the cost and the revenue in the account on a month by month basis. After leaving boarding school, Matthew studied French and Spanish at university then gained a job in recruitment before moving into finance....

This film, from Brompton Bicycle, looks at how standard costing is used to keep track of where money is being spent during the production process. This is the ideal re-determined costs that the company ought to incur for an operation. The film...

Simon is an engineer on a mission to reduce the flood risk across the UK. His projects include a pathfinder event to see what did and didn't work in the flood defence market, that later developed into supplying a Water Gate Barrier to a community.

In this video from Osiris Educational Bill Rodgers discusses his...

Craig manufactures the components that go in Rolls-Royce’s powerful jet engines. He learned his trade on an apprenticeship, which he says was the ideal way to pick up the hands-on skills he uses in his job now.

This film, from Twig World, looks at how the oceans can be mapped. Charting the waters around the Scottish island of Orkney was a pivotal moment in maritime mapping. But a reliance on outdated maps places modern ships in danger. The key points made in the film are: •Before mapping of the sea floor began, hazards...

Tom Harts is a marine biologist at the Zoological Society of London. This Department for Education clip illustrates the importance of mathematics in biology and provides an insight into a zoological career. Tom describes how he collects data during field trips in Antarctica which he then analyses back in London. He...

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An animation shows a floating raft in a marine that...

Mark Richards is a scientist and a DJ (DJ Kemist). He was born in Nottingham in 1970 to parents who had emigrated from Jamaica and remembers successfully 'battling with the boffins' at his comprehensive school, often coming top in chemistry.

Following a degree in chemistry, he has worked (getting a PhD along...