• Question: What do you hope to achieve in the future as a result of your work?

    Asked by anon-283688 on 22 Mar 2021.
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      Lisa Orchard answered on 22 Mar 2021:

      Hi Abby. Great question! I hope to inform breastfeeding support pages about the most efficient way to use social media to provide support for breastfeeding families. I also hope I can have an impact on potential policy surrounding the regulation of infant feeding information online. 🙂

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      Harry Piper answered on 23 Mar 2021:

      This is a really fantastic questions, and as scientists we are always thinking about the impact of our work! I work in interpersonal threat and I do this with the support of North Wales Police. Ultimately, what we want to be able to do it create a tool to assess an individual’s level of threat detection – this could take the form with something like your theory driving test, where videos are shown to you and when you see a threat, you click the mouse, and it records your response! This isn’t the exact plan at the moment as we still have lots of work to do but it could also use pictures, sound clips, as well as a decision making section (e.g. if person x acts with behaviour y, what is the appropriate action to take! This tool would also help identify those in organisations such as the police, who might need further training in threat detection, and this would help them keep themselves and others safe!

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      anon answered on 23 Mar 2021:

      Hi Abby,
      I hope that by being able to see the brain differences in young people with schizophrenia and their healthy siblings, we can see exactly what the brain looks like at risk.
      Using this knowledge I hope that we can apply this to early intervention services in psychosis, so being able to see the signs before any symptoms occur far faster than we know already. Fingers crossed this will help a lot of young people and their families from a very troubling and severe mental illness.

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      Alex Baxendale answered on 23 Mar 2021:

      Hello! My ultimate goal is to be able to create an intervention (kind of like a treatment) for people to do better in areas of their life, at the moment my research has found that reading instructions out loud to yourself when performing math makes you work better, and if you have high math anxiety then reading out loud works even better for you than someone who is low in the anxiety. I would love to be able to use this research to help people feel better about math, and perform better so they can really live up to their potential! The goal is to make the world a better place, even if it’s just by a tiny amount!

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      Ellen Smith answered on 24 Mar 2021:

      Great question, I’m not really sure! My area of research is starting to shift now towards how food can change the composition of bacteria in our gut, which could impact our health and cognitive function via the ‘gut-brain axis’. It’s still a relatively new area, so I would love to help understand this link further and potentially be able to develop targeted dietary interventions based on this.

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