• Question: Why is your research important?

    Asked by Darkness... to Samantha, Matt, Deborah, Adele, Adam on 12 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by Ellie.
    • Photo: Samantha Ahern

      Samantha Ahern answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I think my work is important as it is about helping students academically and pastorally.

    • Photo: Adele Wratten

      Adele Wratten answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      The work I do helps protect people from flooding, which I’m sure you’d think was important if it was your house involved…

    • Photo: Deborah Aitken

      Deborah Aitken answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      My work should save lives. If someone has a heart attack, they have a much better chance of surviving if they get CPR in the first 2 minutes – this is too soon for an ambulance to arrive so it needs to be the public doing this.

    • Photo: Matthew Lee

      Matthew Lee answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      I think it’s important because it’s interesting and cool! But if other people think it’s boring then it probably wont be important to them.

      You coudl think my research is improtant because it’s working on cancer and cancer kills people so maybe what i do might one day save someones life. But the reality is is that my research on its own probably wont ever save anyones life, instead if we combine my research and lots of other peoples research together then that might (and its a small possibility because treatments are really hard to get to work) help someone with caner.

      But overall, my research is important because i think it’s really interesting and cool to learn more about cancer and why it does so many weird things!!

    • Photo: Adam Hargreaves

      Adam Hargreaves answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      I think it’s important because the results generated by it could help to save thousands of lives each year. That’s the main goal of my project at the moment, it’s a very ambitious one but it’s always good to dream big! A by-product of my project is that it should also give an indication of when and how inhibitors against snake venom toxins evolved, which will give us some more clues on how venoms in snakes evolved and became so diverse.

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