• Question: What is your aspiration to achieve in your career life and why?

    Asked by anon-283929 on 4 Mar 2021. This question was also asked by anon-285441.
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      anon answered on 4 Mar 2021: last edited 4 Mar 2021 7:13 pm

      Hi Phoebe,
      Great question and would love to hear the other scientists ideas too.
      There is a study that suggests that happiness doesn’t change or improve with money after around a salary of £40,000 a year. So for me following the science I am not money orientated for achieving happiness! My real achievement aspiration would be to publish in the journal ‘nature’. It would be that my research matters and has made a big enough impact in the world in a positive way to be published in such a high journal. Though winning the Nobel prize for science achievements would be pretty cool too!

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      Christina Brown answered on 4 Mar 2021:

      I would love to be a lecturer in a university and run my own lab. It would mean I get to work on what I am truly interested in and help others achieve their goals in doing Masters and PhDs. It’s tough to get into, and it’s tougher to keep the job so I’m not 100% fussed if it doesn’t happen. I would also be really happy in a job that was less demanding but also important, so I could enjoy weekends and have some hobbies.

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      Lisa Orchard answered on 4 Mar 2021:

      I would love to win a grant for my research. Breastfeeding is so important, yet it is extremely underfunded. I would love to be awarded money to help research the best ways to help breastfeeding families and try and improve UK breastfeeding rates, which are among the lowest in the world.

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      Alex Baxendale answered on 5 Mar 2021:

      I really want to get a job in a University teaching Psychology and doing my research, I want to be able to spread my passion for learning to others, whilst making important discoveries in my area – do something that benefits everyone! I would be very happy if in 100 years time even just a tiny bit of the work I do has helped to lead the way to finding something important!

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      Harry Piper answered on 5 Mar 2021:

      This is really interesting! For me, I’d like to run a lab in a university, teaching and doing my own research! It’s great to see the current students being so inspired and I love the master’s students I co-supervise at the moment!

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      Dennis Relojo-Howell answered on 5 Mar 2021: last edited 5 Mar 2021 10:34 am

      I’m driven by making psychology more accessible to the wider public. I draw inspirations from the creators of Psychology Today, Psych Central, etc. – These are the most visited psychology websites, to date. Creating a platform like those would be my simple contribution to the field of psychology. If I manage to get at least one million monthly readers on my website, I’ll die a fulfilled psychologist.

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      Ellen Smith answered on 5 Mar 2021:

      I’d love to carry on with similar research that I’m doing now and work with industrial contacts to bring in funding for the research. At the moment I really want to publish my PhD research in a good scientific journal, that would be a really good early career achievement! But I think most of all I just want to enjoy what I’m doing and be happy in my career.

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