• Question: what is your greatest achievment

    Asked by RD to Cedric, Carrie, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 6 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by cmbride12.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Getting my PhD – I had a really hard time personally the final 18 months I was studying and my PhD was something positive I could focus on. I could have given up because it was a lot of hard work but I loved every single moment of it and when I got it, it meant even more to me because of that.

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Swimming the length of lake Windermere. It was my longest swim to date at 10.6 miles and it took me 9.5hrs. I could barely turn my arms over my head at the end. I was last but one but I had finished. Pretty much everyone had packed up and gone home, but I have never been prouder of anything! It showed me that if I could do that I could do anything 😀

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Interesting question! Haven’t thought of it much. But I would say communicating science via fun methods, like educational videos and free games.

      Here’s some of videos and games:

      Video on understanding the clouded leopard habitat use in Peninsular Malaysia:

      Video on how the immune system can evade inhibition:

      Printable RoundTable for Sustainable Palm Oil game:
      http://www.rspo.org/smallholders/rspo-smallholders-boardgame

      Printable Eco-divo game:
      https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eco-divo-a-card-game-build-a-food-web-using-uk-species-learn-about-ecosystems-and-biodiversity-11307445

      A two-part video on same-sex behaviour in animals and humans

      Winner of Dance you PhD 2013 by Science:
      http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2013/11/dance-your-ph.d.-and-winner-%E2%80%A6

      Winner of Evolution 2012 Video Contest by NESCent (National Evolution Synthesis Center): https://vimeo.com/44808911

      Winner of Dance your PhD 2012 (Biology category) by Science: http://vimeo.com/30211782

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      Getting better A-level results than I expected – I could hardly believe it. This meant I got into my first choice university. If I hadn’t, who knows what I might be doing now.

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      This is probably the hardest question I’ve been asked in a long time. Understanding who I am and what make me me, is probably my greatest achievement. I’ve learnt to accept myself with all my qualities and faults. I am who I am, I can only be me, and I only want to be me. 🙂 This doesn’t mean I don’t work on my “lesser” qualities. I do, every day. The difference is that now I set personal standards, not standards based on how I perceive other people’s qualities or standards.

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