• Question: hi guys i read all your profiles and u sound like good people to meet.  why did u choose science /physics/bioligy/chemistry?

    Asked by 569urak29 to Sajid, Katherine, Jayne, Duncan, anuantony on 4 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Jayne Ede

      Jayne Ede answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      Thanks! For me it was sort of a happy coincidence. I never ‘dreamed’ of becoming a scientist at school, I didn’t really know what that even meant. However, I did love science, and I was always encouraged to do things I enjoy. I ended up taking some science subjects (Physics, chemistry) at A-Level and my chemistry teacher was so excellent he opened my eyes to how interesting chemistry was. So I chose to study it at Uni – the rest is history!

      The moral of the story – do what you enjoy!

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      Thanks, I think we are too. I think science was always on the cards, but I have a bit of a story about choosing physics. When I went to university, my plan was to study physics, but after a year it seemed like it was pretty hard and I didn’t understand it properly, so I decided to do chemistry instead because I was better at it. Flash forward four years and I have a degree in chemistry and I’m thinking about training to be a teacher, but I realise I want to be a physics teacher and not a chemistry teacher, so I start doing a physics degree with the Open University. Then I was a physics teacher, then a chemistry teacher, and now I’m doing yet another degree, again in physics. I think I’m basically bad a choosing.

    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      i like the challenge of solving problems. All experiments performed to test a theory and are mostly to understand something better or to fix something.

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