• Question: What are your aspirations for the future?

    Asked by Lucy Sharrock to Tom, Jennifer, Jen, Imogen, Hephzi on 6 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Hephzi Tagoe

      Hephzi Tagoe answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      Ultimately, I’m aiming to run a science organisation focussed on engaging the public with science through community activities and getting pupils interested in science from an early age in Ghana.
      Whiles that gets off the ground, I love teaching, going into schools, writing and being in the lab so the plan is to stay in research and get a lecturing job at a University and continue to be a STEM Ambassador working with schools and organisng science events.

    • Photo: Imogen Napper

      Imogen Napper answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      Have you ever been the beach and seen litter? Or have you ever seen litter on the street?

      I would love to carry on researching as a marine scientist, to carry on studying about how we are polluting the ocean and the environment, so my research can help make it a cleaner, safer place in the future!

      We all love being by the sea, and learning about all the animals in it, so lets make sure we look after it 🙂 .

    • Photo: Thomas Barrett

      Thomas Barrett answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I would love to be a University lecturer. It combines research with being able to teach. So I can still discover things but I also get to pass on my knowledge.

      My dad teaches at a University and he would come home at tell me how every so often one of his students would come up to him after class and say something like “Hey I understand what you’re talking about but what happens when X” and Dad would say he had never thought of it like that before. So he was always learning from his students as well as them learning from him.

      I never want to stop learning. If I can pass my knowledge on at the same time even better! 😛

      I would however love to be an astronaut. It’s basically doing my job now……but in SPACE 😀

    • Photo: Jennifer Rudd

      Jennifer Rudd answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      That’s a question I’m trying to answer for myself now! I’ve done my PhD and a post-doc (the job after a PhD) and so now I want to take a little bit of time off (thank goodness for a husband who earns money!) and decide whether I want to be a university lecturer or a school teacher, or somebody who works in outreach. I know I never want to lose my science though.

    • Photo: Jen Machin

      Jen Machin answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I’d like to carry on working in research, but I’d also like being a lecturer because I really enjoy teaching 🙂 My main hope at the moment is to have at least one paper published in a scientific journal before I finish my PhD – that would be very exciting!

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