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Asked by DeSousaF to Matt, Adam, Deborah, Samantha on 22 Jun 2017.
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Adam Hargreaves answered on 22 Jun 2017:
Hi DeSousaF,
I think the main point I always try to get across is that there are a HUGE number of topics you could study in Biology. For example in our department alone there are people working on bird behaviour, Lion conservation, spider silk, virus evolution and how the entire animal kingdom evolved, all under the umbrella of “Department of Zoology”. There’s so much variety.
I think the other important thing from my perspective was that I had no clue of what I wanted to do until I was about 21 years old, and eventually things worked out the way they did and here I am! So if students, particularly around GCSE or A level time, say they don’t know what they want to do, I try and get across that that’s completely fine and not to worry.
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Samantha Ahern answered on 22 Jun 2017:
I use cluedo and logic grid puzzles to help demonstrate how different information can be combined to form new information and what can be inferred from other information. Many people are surprised.
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Matthew Lee answered on 22 Jun 2017:
I want to teach people that cancer isn’t something we should be afraid of, we should understand that actually cancer is a really interesting disease and we need people to find it cool and interesting so that they will do research into it and find new treatments for people. One of the things i try to tell people is that cancers live in a microenvironment which is essentially a house within the body. The cancer lives inside its house and interacts with all the things inside the house in different ways and sometimes it can leave the house and go and buy a new house in a different part of the body. And understanding how it does things inside its house, and how it moves from one house to another, can help is make new treatments!
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