• Question: do you like talking to people about your work?

    Asked by laurenmcarthur to Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I do! Very very much so!!

      Obviously – I don’t get as much opportunity to compared to somone like Paige who does more with science communication rather than an in-the-lab science. I do like to make good use of the little time I get for communication, I do lots of workshops with schools like yours, but it’s not my everyday job! Being in the lab, doing research and getting results is the main part of my job – it takes up probably 90% of my time at work (if not more)!!

      I love sharing my work with other scientists – to get the opinions and generate new idea – as much I like sharing my work with people whom don’t necessarily come into contact with research scientists every day! I feel like it makes people a bit more aware of what is going on to answer the big questions about health, life, death and the universe!

    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      I love talking to people about my work! That is indeed what I do.. I write about the work of scientists, both my own work and the work of other researchers! I wrote this story recently about hurricane research at LSU: http://www.lsu.edu/departments/gold/2012/06/storm_surge_research.shtml

      I love writing about science! That is in fact my job. 🙂

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      Yes, I used to think that once I told people I was a scientist they would think I was boring and walk away. However, most people are really interested in what I do and being a physicist I get loads of people asking me about space and CERN (which I know very little about). I also enjoy talking to other scientist about their work and seeing if we have any problems in common.

Comments

  • Photo: SJ

    SJ commented on :

    Hey also – thank you for naming me as a favourite scientist! Hehe I feel honoured. 🙂

  • Photo: Andrew

    Andrew commented on :

    Yes I too like talking about science. I do about six outreach events per year because one of the great things about science is communicating your results as widely as possible. One of my outreach events is called Chemistry and Physics, More magic than Harry Potter but I always stress the main difference between a magic show and science is that in science we want everyone to know how stuff works.