• Question: Who helped you become a scientist

    Asked by Moses498 on 18 Jan 2022.
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      Jonny Coates answered on 18 Jan 2022:

      My A-level biology teacher and my undergraduate lecturers were amazing and so supportive! But also my mum who I probably don’t credit enough.

      It can be a challenging career and you need a good support base! On-going this has been my friends who are also all scientists.

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      Valerie Vancollie answered on 18 Jan 2022:

      All of my teachers, both in secondary school and at uni. At uni the big person was the professor and PhD student in whose lab I worked to do my undergraduate thesis. They helped mentor me and allowed me to do my own research which has since been published in a larger paper.

      From there I was then able to go on and get a job in science.

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      Samuel Ellis answered on 18 Jan 2022:

      My family were always very supportive of my choices, even if it meant me being a student for some many years! And definitely some of my lecturers and advisers during uni played a big role in helping me realise I could stay in academia as a career

    • Photo: Chris Budd

      Chris Budd answered on 20 Jan 2022:

      It was a mixture of great teachers and my grandfather. Neither of my parents were scientists, but my teachers and granfather (was was a scientist) supported me a lot.

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      Melanie Krause answered on 21 Jan 2022:

      I actually didn’t have anyone in my school or family who encouraged me to become a scientist, but my family was in general supportive of me going to Uni and my father always hoped his children would do engineering or life sciences so its close enough 🙂

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