• Question: why did u become a scientist ?

    Asked by anon-214198 to Robert, Imad, Hannah, Fern, Christian, carolwallace on 15 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Robert Ives

      Robert Ives answered on 15 Jun 2019:


      1) I like science and learning new things
      2) I was quite good at science at school
      3) I wanted to help people and animals to live happier and longer
      4) I wanted to discover something new
      5) I wanted to be on TV
      6) The money isn’t too bad

      That’s why I became a scientist. I still like science and learning new things, still want to help people and animals, still want to discover something new and still want to be on TV. And the money isn’t too bad!

    • Photo: Carol Wallace

      Carol Wallace answered on 17 Jun 2019:


      I think that I’m curious about the world, about our bodies and how they work and about the things that surround us.
      Science is the way to find answers and it gives you a grounding in asking more questions to prove that what you think is correct.
      I found science easy at school – yes/no answers – rather than the maybes of other subjects.
      It’s much easier to study something that you’re interested in as you get more and more interested the more you find out.

    • Photo: Fern Johnson

      Fern Johnson answered on 18 Jun 2019:


      I was always really interested in animals and nature and enjoyed science at school. I wanted to do medicine at university but changed my mind (I was worried about not getting in) and focused on Biology. Preparing for my application I really enjoyed reading about evolution and how animals and plants have changed over time. I got to learn lots of really interesting things at uni but none of it appealed to me enough to go into research. I did really enjoy bioinformatics, where you work with computers to solve biological problems. For a while I worked for a charity that helped people really ill with cancer and dementia, and I thought that I would like to help people that are ill. At this point I wasn’t really bothered about being a .scientist’, until I learned about the NHS clinical scientist training program, where you work as a scientist in the NHSt diagnose diseases. It’s the perfect job for me!

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