• Question: how did you get into this specific science

    Asked by squimmy to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 15 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Sian Thomas

      Sian Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      By fortuitous accident!
      I started out as a biochemist. Then did food science and moved out of academic research and into the biotech industry.
      Then into government in food science for policy. When I had my children there was too much travel so science governance was a better option. This took me into social science – they needed someone who understood the governance.

      In government social science is one of the analytics professions (economics, operational research, statistics and social research) – my next stop was head of analytics in a temporary capacity. And finally to the head of Information Management! My current favorite is data science – which is in my remit with data policy and information governance.

    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      I actually had a pretty straightforward path from school. I studied neuroscience at university, did my PhD in neuroscience, and now I am doing a postdoc in neuroscience. I just happened to be lucky, starting with something that I really enjoy learning about!

    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 18 Jun 2016:

      I started learning a little genetics at school for A level and found it fascinating. So took a specialized undergraduate degree in Human genetics and the rest is history! Many universities do specialized as well as general science degrees – it depends on what you are interested in! I found that I didn’t like most of Biology A level, only the genetics part so it seemed silly to carry on learning about stuff I didn’t find interesting.

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