• Question: how did you get into science?

    Asked by anon-193322 to Jamal, Morwenna, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 8 Nov 2018.
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      Emma Crawford answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I’ve always been interested in maths and science for as long as I can remember! I was even part of maths club in primary school! I studied maths at uni because I liked it, and did a 12-month placement as part of my course. That is when I discovered the pharmaceutical industry and was really inspired that I could use my maths skills to help improve the lives of patients.

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      Carl Heron answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I always enjoyed science at school. I did Chemistry and Biology at A-level together with History. I then applied to do a degree in Archaeological Science where different science subjects come together to try to build a better understanding of people in the past.

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      Iain Staniland answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I can’t remember a time I was not into science, my dad was a scientist so I would watch TV programmes about science with him. I loved learning about the world around me, how things worked and particularly about animals. At school I found that my best subject was biology and that I enjoyed it. So it was natural for me to keep studying it.
      The great thing about science is it is such a huge subject area everyone should be able to find something that interests them within it, even if they don’t want to be a scientist as a job!

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      Heidi Gardner answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I was always interested in science, but I wasn’t always sure that I wanted to be a scientist – my favourite subject at school was Art and at one point I wanted to be a graphic designer or an illustrator! I decided that I’d study a science at university because I was still interested in science and thought it would be harder to do science as a hobby than art. Once I’d got to uni I realised that science is actually really creative too, so I decided I wanted to learn how to do scientific research. After my degree I did a PhD which is like a training degree to teach you how to do research, and my first science job is based in the same place where my PhD was based 🙂

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      Morwenna Bugg answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I enjoyed science at school, so I chose science a levels – Biology, Chemistry and Maths. Then I went to uni to study chemistry and after a year changed to study nutrition which is biology based

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