• Question: Are you popular with your science around your area?

    Asked by codfish to Clare, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 19 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Our project has had quite a lot of interest (the company we have made to help us make these samples won a prize for best new bio-tech company), but we work in a building where almost everyone else is looking at metals and nuclear materials, so they think our experiments are a bit spooky!

    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Well, I work at the zoo and we get about 400000 visitors come through our bit of the zoo each year. All of the visitors can see all of the research that we do and we will often go into the visitor area so they can ask us questions about what we’re doing and chat to us.

      I hope that makes us popular! I certainly love answering their questions, telling them about my research and chatting with them.

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 20 Mar 2014:

      I think so, I am a bit of a character and the local schools seem to like me because I’m so keen on talking to classes and having work experience people in the lab. I don’t do it to be popular though, I do it because I think as scientists it’s exactly the sort of thing we should be doing.

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