• Question: what interested you to do science?

    Asked by Molly on 14 Jul 2023. This question was also asked by NatashaP, NargessW, date490fan.
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      Sophie Shaw answered on 14 Jul 2023:

      I sort of accidentally ended up being a scientist. I applied to do medicine at university and didn’t get in, but was instead offered to do a degree in Molecular Biology. During that degree, I did a summer placement in a lab to get some money and loved it and that’s how I ended up pursuing it as a career.

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      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 14 Jul 2023:

      I was always motivated from a young age to discover new things. As a young person I learned how various Nobel prize winners had to endure difficult circumstances and that is something that motivated me. I wanted to make a difference in the 🌍 My curiosity led me to where I am and hopefully I will discover many more things in the years to come😊

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      Hannah Scholes answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      I always loved sciences at school – I liked trying to work out how and why things worked. The thing that really got me interested was a man at a school science fair who did an experiment which ended up with exploding custard!

      In terms of my job now, I sort of fell into it by accident. The research and development lab I was working in closed (we didn’t do anything wrong, the company just decided to change direction), and the NHS was hiring just as I needed a job. It was never really my intention to become a Biomedical Scientist, but I love it now! 🙂

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      Cheryl Williams answered on 17 Jul 2023:

      My teachers were very keen and enthusiastic, and they saw something in me. They gave me a little push to take triple science at GCSE. I’m glad and grateful they took the time to believe in me.

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      Simon Anderson answered on 19 Jul 2023:

      Science was always one of my favourite subject at school, I really enjoyed finding out how things worked and was always really interested in human biology. Like many others ended up in my current role by accident but this was in part because there weren’t schemes like this where you could get, even just a little, sense of the variety of roles out there.

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      Kip Heath answered on 20 Jul 2023:

      I’ve always been interested in science. So haven’t really considered anything else.

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      Clare Morrow answered on 24 Jul 2023:

      I loved science at school and had two really good chemistry teachers

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