Samuel Riley
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
WORDS BY MAXIM BUCKLEY One thing that honours has taught me is that science is a field full of weird and wonderful things. I completed my undergrad with the medical faculty and then decided that my honours would best be completed with the science faculty. Don’t ask me why. The medical faculty is fairly focused: science for the betterment of human health. In a sense the science faculty has a similar idea, but it’s far broader. I met Sam at a faculty tea and cake day, in between stuffing our faces with free pastries, tarts, and doughnuts, we discussed our projects. Sam’s project really blew me away because he was the first person, I’d met who wasn’t directly working on a pathogen of some description, which in retrospect is quite funny because that seems to be a good portion of the building. 22
Sam is from England’s Midlands and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent. After completing his undergrad at nearby University of Nottingham, Sam decided to complete a PhD, specifically a joint PhD with the University of Adelaide. So, while Sam is still a student at Nottingham, he has spent a good portion of his PhD at Adelaide, two and a half years in fact. “In retrospect I’m glad. I was originally going to do another year in the UK but with the pandemic and what my project is on, staying her just made sense”. These programs are available to University of Adelaide students too and Sam highly recommends anyone considering a PhD consider one of these programs. “So essentially the project is based on global food security. Global populations are getting larger, so we need more protein to feed the world. Animal protein isn’t
