• Question: when you've done all your research what are you going to do with it and what do you hope to achieve

    Asked by sophie100 to Luna, David, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 19 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by bamawkwardturtlebabies3, stephmaskell4.
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      Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I hope that I’ll never be done with research. That’s what is cool about science: more questions come out all the time. However, I do hope to connect with county councils, schools, and government bodies about how to ensure that our children can develop into socially-productive human beings.

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      David Pyle answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      My research is all funded by government, charities and my university. As I finish projects, my colleagues and I write them up as scientific articles (papers) so that they can be published and made widely available. It is often only when you actually bring things together to write the papers that you can recognise the most important things that need to be done next. I have published quite a lot of papers so far, and I expect to keep following up new leads and writing new papers for the rest of my academic career. This work will add up to a better understanding of how volcanoes work, and the reduction of risk from future volcanic eruptions.

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      Melanie Stefan answered on 19 Mar 2011:

      I’ll never be done with all my research. A friend of mine once said that knowledge is like a circle. As its size increases, so does the size of its boundary, ie the more you know the more you become aware of what you don’t know. At some later point, I’d like to move on from learning and memory and study things like decision-making or maybe language. There’s lots more to do!

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