• Question: why are you devoted to science

    Asked by oj to Freddie, Jena, Kirsten, Kon, Zarah on 7 Nov 2016.
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      Kirsten Brandt answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I’m not quite sure exactly what you mean by ‘devoted’, I wouldn’t hurt other people to defend it! However of the various types of jobs I could choose to do, it is the role where I could make the biggest difference for others and myself, since it gives me opportunity make things happen that would not be done if I didn’t do them. If I did something else, was a teacher or a consultant or something like that, I could still do a lot of useful and interesting things. However these things would be similar to what other teachers or consultants were doing, and if I didn’t do them myself, another colleague would just do it instead.

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      Jennifer Bates answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      I’d say I use science to answer questions rather than being devoted to it. For me science is a tool that you can use and apply to think about some very tricky topics, and that means that you need a lot of them. And there are a vast array of things within science to apply: biology, chemistry, physics, botany, geology, computer modelling, mathematics…phew! I’m not really worried about which bit of science I need, more about why I am using that bit and what question I am asking. That is the bit I am devoted to, making sure the question I ask is right, that it is useful and that it is interesting, not just for me, but for everyone involved.

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