• Question: How did you know you wanted to venture into the world of science?

    Asked by anon-232564 to Mark, Liam, Laura, Kasia, Gina, Felix on 18 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Liam Gaffney

      Liam Gaffney answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I didn’t make a decision like that at a young age. I just liked studying science and found out that I was quite good at maths too, so I went to university to study physics. I still didn’t know whilst I was at university exactly what I wanted to do, I just kept my options open and pursued what I was most interested in. In my final year of study, I really wanted to have a go at research in science and applied to study for a PhD. Even at that stage, I know many of my colleagues at the time who left after graduating and went to get a different type of job, but I knew at that point that I wanted to carry on because I loved the work so much and discovering new things!

    • Photo: Laura Sinclair

      Laura Sinclair answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      I started off doing A levels in science because I was interested in becoming a physiotherapist. Then I fell in love with physics, and applied to do that at uni. In my 2nd year of undergraduate I knew I wanted to pursue a PhD. Then during my PhD I decided medical physics was where my heart was!

    • Photo: Felix Warren

      Felix Warren answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      In primary school science was allways the fun subject, you got to mess around with all sorts of things and watch there interactions. As I moved from primary school to doing my GCSEs and Alevels I learned to appreciate the methods, details and planning that went into science and found that it was a subject that I enjoyed and was also good at. This eventually paired with my love for practical hand on subjects like D&T ending up with me following a career in engineering.

    • Photo: Mark Johnson

      Mark Johnson answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      Up until the end of my university degree, I was just curious to learn more about a subject I found really fascinating – I didn’t view science as a career choice until much later on. After leaving university, I had the opportunity to work on an amazing experiment at CERN and study for a PhD, and this seemed much more exciting than going into a ‘real job’. Since then, I’ve just been driven to keep learning more about the universe, and contributing to the amazing science that I’m lucky enough to be involved in!

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