• Question: How will your current research help people/change things in the world?

    Asked by philippajane to Stu, Helen, Jenni, Mark, Martin on 22 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by elizabethrw, heartofnewcastle, luluforbie.
    • Photo: Mark Burnley

      Mark Burnley answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      My work will help in this way: http://ias.im/48.74

    • Photo: Stuart Mourton

      Stuart Mourton answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      I’m helping people with learning disabilities in their learning of new and complex skills. The aim is to make it easier for them to learn the skills required to have a job and take part in as much physical activity and sport as possible to imrpove their quality of life. I am also working on decision making in sport, and trying to find ways of better training sportsmen and women to perfrom to the best of their ability in fast passed and complex situations.

    • Photo: Helen O'Connor

      Helen O'Connor answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      I hope that my research into why athletes take performance enhancing drugs (and why some don’t) will help us find ways to encourage new young athletes NOT to take performance enhancers during their athletic career. Many forms of doping are pretty dangerous, so this could protect the health, and sometimes the lives, of our future athletes.

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