• Question: what got you into working with science

    Asked by rawr to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 13 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sian Harding

      Sian Harding answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      Probably reading a Childrens encyclopedia lying around in my grandfathers shop, especially the biology bits

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      Steven Kiddle answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      I finished university and had no idea what to do. I looked at all the jobs that were available and science was the only one that didn’t sound boring to me

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      I probably would have ended up working in science anyway because I’ve always been interested in the environment. However after my O’levels (or GCEs) I did a field trip to a really remote part of Zimbabwe with scientists from the Natural History Museum of Bulawayo. We were trapping and preserving as many animals as possible for the Museum collections. I really didn’t like killing all the animals and kept asking the scientists why it was so important to kill them. They explained that it was really important for them to study where animals are distributed, why they occur there and what their characteristics are so that they can make decisions on how to conserve them. One scientist (you can read more about him at http://www.biodiversityleadershipawards.org/cott1.htm) was really inspiring in making me wonder how all these organisms have evolved, how they co-exist together and how we can conserve them. I really became interested in these questions and wanted the skills to do similar work. Its just that I got distracted by plants along the way…

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      Louise Johnson answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      I was enjoying my genetics degree, so I started thinking about doing a PhD. I looked around, found some projects I liked the look of and was accepted for one of them 🙂 It was an interesting project and the rest of the lab were a great bunch, so I decided I wanted to stay in science as long as I could!

    • Photo: Michaela Livingstone

      Michaela Livingstone answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      Well technically I’m not working yet, I’m still doing my PhD, but I got to that my doing a degree in genetics and I got in to doing that degree because I chose the subjects I needed to do that degree, and I chose that subjects because I’d read a comic book guide to genetics that got me really interested in science. Or are you asking about specifics, what subjects I chose and that sort of thing?

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