You can work successfully with a romantic partner. Meet the researchers who have cracked it.
Pollution researchers Steve and Deonie Allen often work together on one project for one salary, which they find gets the work done in the most effective way.Steve and Deonie ‘Dee’ Allen’s fates were sealed when their respective dogs, two kelpies, spotted each other from across a marina in Brisbane, Australia and became friends. The pair were living on boats three berths down from one another — and the rest, as they say, is history.
Romantic duos are by no means uncommon in science. A 2008 study by researchers at Stanford University in California suggests that around 40% of women and 34% of men in academia are in a partnership with fellow academics. Among scientists, 83% of women and 54% of men in academic couples are partnered with another scientistThere are clear benefits: a support system and a shared understanding of all work’s stresses, including the highs and lows of a career in science, are implicit.
Environmental scientists Justine Ammendolia and Jackie Saturno work together on a research project to monitor plastic waste in Halifax, Canada.The couple hatched a plan to monitor plastic waste in the area, turning it into research. “It began as a grass-roots, informal project, but we eventually picked up funding dollars,” says Ammendolia, a PhD student at Dalhousie University.
Getting to this secure point in their careers wasn’t easy, however. When applying for positions early on, Creed says, she was advised to keep quiet about the ‘two-body problem’ in interviews and wait until she had been offered a job to disclose that her partner is also an academic.
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