Question: What do you feel is the best part of your jobs and why did you feel passionate to become a psychologist and to follow this as your career path?

Maggi Laurie answered on 23 Nov 2020:

I’ve always been interested in people and how they think and learn, and do the things they do, which kind of naturally led me into studying the human mind and psychology. I wanted to become a psychologist because – like many others – I wanted to help people and especially those who are ‘vulnerable’, like those with mental health conditions or learning disabilities. I got into research whilst studying psychology and then discovered, like Madeleine, that I enjoyed the process of asking questions and coming up with ways to answer them using experiments and other methods. What I’d like to do next – hopefully – is combine these two paths and use my research skills in government or charity sectors, so that I can use my research knowledge and skills to directly have impact and support people – like gathering evidence for particular political decisions or finding out how best to support different individuals. I never really had a ‘career path’ so to speak. I just did things that I enjoyed and now I’ve ended up here!