• Question: How likely are you to achieve the aim of your work.

    Asked by Jamal to Jack, Gem, Jermaine, Michelle, Steve on 17 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Jermaine Ravalier

      Jermaine Ravalier answered on 17 Jun 2017:

      I think I speak for most psychologists in that we will probably never reach an ultimate aim (e.g. to cure a disease or mental illness), so we continually work toward it as hard as we can.

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      Jack barton answered on 18 Jun 2017:

      I think Jermaine summed it up perfectly. Any good piece of research will raise many new questions!

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      Steven Brown answered on 18 Jun 2017:

      An excellent question. I ask myself the same question every day – “How do I know if I have or will achieve my goals?”

      Unless you have a specific goal, you never know how you are doing. I work closely with people at work to help me create small, realistic goals.

      My current project sort of has to work! We are partnered with the NHS to deliver a product, on time. So it will work. Most jobs work like this – where you simply have to deliver, but in academic research often you have some luxury time to get distracted and come up with new ideas and sort of see what happens. This is less common nowadays.

    • Photo: Michelle Jamieson

      Michelle Jamieson answered on 18 Jun 2017:

      I’d want to say likely, but as long as questions are kept being asked, and people are working towards a common goal, that’s a good start.

    • Photo: Gemma Taylor

      Gemma Taylor answered on 21 Jun 2017:

      It depends on two factors – hard work on my part, and random influence. I would say 95% my hard work, and 5% random influences. So I’m sure that I can achieve the aims of my work 🙂

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