• Question: what made you become a scientist

    Asked by jamieleigh leathem to Stephanie, LauraAnne, Katy, Helen, Emilia, Dan, Andrew on 4 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 264sprg52, ???, stewart22, 345sprg32, Diana.
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      Stephanie Millward answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      I did well at school and find science very interesting!

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      LauraAnne Furlong answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      I asked my family the question ‘why??’ a lot when I was younger, and asked about how and why things worked and behaved as they did, I always wanted to find things out. They encouraged me to find things out myself, so this was one thing that made me think about being a scientist.

      When I was about 13 or 14 a female Professor of Biochemistry came to visit our school for a talk, and this showed me how varied a career in science could be, and the difference it could make to people’s lives. Her job sounded so interesting, and that was another thing that encouraged me!

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      Dan Gordon answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      I was always fascinated by the way ‘things’ worked. I liked to ask the questions of why? The older I got the more I started to make sense in my mind of science and why it is important. I enjoyed it at school and then had the opportunity to study it at University. At the same time my athletics coach was starting to use some basic sports science in our training which introduced me to the idea that science could cross into sport.
      I would also add though that everyone is a scientist in some shape or form. From your parents who might cook a meal and dabble with different ingredients, to a gardener who tries out a new packet of seeds to the decorator who uses a different brush to pain the walls. In all of these examples we see what science is. We have an idea, we run an experiment and then we look at the results of our experiment against what we though might happen (our idea). So we all use science and we are all scientist in our own little way.

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      Katy Griggs answered on 5 Nov 2016:

      I always enjoyed Human biology and PE at school. Whilst studying GCSES i looked into lots of different jobs that i could do as a career using this subject areas. Sport Science always appealed to me.

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      Emilia McAllister-Jepps answered on 6 Nov 2016:

      I became interested in sports science when I became an athlete. But I did always like Chemistry at school!

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