Psychology researcher studies air quality in Irish pubs around the world.
I can just see that grant application process
“Hello, NSERC? I want money to spend the year at Irish pubs. Why? Umm, ah, to… study… air quality. That’s right, air quality. Certainly not to get drunk off my ass. Nosiree.”
DAMN! I would have gotten a lot more done over my sabbatical if I’d had a hard-core academic task like this one!
Air quality. I have to remember that.
My honours research project was a bio-climatic, bio-physical resource assessment of the Niagara Peninsula with a view to growing grapes. The field work was murder, but I forced myself in the name of geographic research. (Link to some of the results.)