• Question: Why did you choose to study what your studieng now?

    Asked by katieslater to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 20 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by jamaicanbob, louisebrewah.
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      Susanna Martin answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      When I was doing my English GCSE we had to do an english oral examination, my topic was on sleep so my brother who was at uni at the time lent me a copy of a psychology text book to help me learn about sleep. I think that triggered the idea of studying psychology, I then took it for an alevel and decided to do a degree in it. My area of research within psychology is slightly dependent upon where the jobs are! My PhD was really focussed on education and technology, but my current job is more about experts and knowledge management.

    • Photo: Jen Todd Jones

      Jen Todd Jones answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      Hi katie and bob

      After school during my degrees at university I learned a lot of the basics of biology, chemistry and physics so I could understand what we were being taught! Looking at pictures of the brain and hearing people talk about the body as a whole and how this and the brain made us human really appealed to me. I found something that interested me and only then did I really decide that I could be a scientist, only then did I even believe I could be one! I think it’s really important to remember that you don’t have to start as a scientist, once you find something that you find really interesting anything is possible.

      Jen

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