• Question: what are you hoping to achieve?

    Asked by anon-215813 to Laura, Kathryn, Ian, Chris, Bogdana, Alex on 10 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Ian Cookson

      Ian Cookson answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I’m quite idealistic. I hope my research can be used to influence transport policy and peoples decision making meaning we rely less on cars and more on sustainable transport solutions.

    • Photo: Kathryn Atherton

      Kathryn Atherton answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I want to help build a society in which the wealth of your parents doesn’t have such a strong influence on your chances in life.

    • Photo: Alex Lloyd

      Alex Lloyd answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      In short term, I hope to contribute to our understanding of when and why teenagers take risks using a bunch of different research techniques. If we can understand this, then we can help steer people away from negative types of risk taking and onto more positive types of risk taking.

      In the long term, I would like to work with the government and the youth justice system to change how we work with young offenders. I think to reduce youth crime, we should focus on psychological factors that can lead teenagers to commit crimes in the first place.

    • Photo: Laura Fisk

      Laura Fisk answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      In my teeny tiny way, I want to help make the world a better place!

    • Photo: Chris Fullwood

      Chris Fullwood answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      I’d like for my research to make a real difference to people’s lives. Some of the work I have been doing has been exploring some of the factors that might prevent people with learning disabilities from accessing and using the Internet. I’d like to hope that through publishing this research we can raise awareness around some of the barriers and that this might impact on government policy decisions to make things easier for them

    • Photo: Bogdana Huma

      Bogdana Huma answered on 13 Jun 2019:

      In the long term, I’m hoping my research will give us a better idea of why and how we are persuaded (especially in sales interactions) with the ultimate aim of figuring out how to resist these influence attempts.

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