• Question: what/who was inspiration for you wanting to have a career in science?

    Asked by anon-208715 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 1 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-208920, anon-208921, anon-208367, anon-210550, anon-210524, anon-208951, anon-208649, anon-208660, anon-208292, anon-208301, anon-210301, anon-210339, anon-210361, anon-210329, anon-210347, anon-210330.
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      Gill Harrison answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      I don’t really think of myself as a scientist as such. I started out in health care thinking I was a health care professional. It’s only as time has gone by I realise that using the technology to make a diagnosis is very much science. So I guess my motivation was more about wanting to help diagnose people, to get them the best / correct treatment.

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      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      This may sound pretty lame but I really loved (and still love) sci-fi as a kid. Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, you name it! I wanted to be one of the scientists on board, exploring and trying to understand new worlds or exotic parts of the Universe that no one has ever seen before. 🚀👽👾🛸👩‍🚀🖖

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      Titus Mutwiri answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      My first time mentor after my middle level college became my inspiration to joining science a bit more deeply. I was assigned activities to collect water samples from river with the purpose of looking for tiny parasites in water that could cause human and animal diseases. The whole process was intriguing and the experiments fascinated me a lot.

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      Stuart Higgins answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I enjoyed science lessons at school, had some really enthusiastic science teachers who made the subject interesting and encouraged me. I love learning new things and you get to do that all the time in science.

      During university I realised that being a scientist gave you lots of other opportunities too – like travelling around the world to go to scientific conferences, etc, plus meeting interesting people – so it was the kind of life I wanted too.

      I’ve always wanted to try lots of difference careers, science is just the one that stuck/I’ve managed to persuade people to employ me to do.

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