• Question: What kind of response are you getting to your research?

    Asked by anon-170057 to Sian, Max, Lizzie, Francis, Ben on 7 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Francis Man

      Francis Man answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Well, we are receiving an incredible number of questions about our research from you guys! It seems that you are all very interested and it’s great so see.

      When I tell other people (non-scientists) about my work I think usually they are curious, because most people seem to be interested in new cancer treatments. I have to explain a lot of the basics about cancer, the immune system and nuclear imaging, rather than the fine details.

      When I tell other scientists, I get a lot of questions about small details, they also want to know what I’m going to do next. They often suggest interesting experiments to do that I might not have thought of myself.

    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      At first i thought nobody cared, but now I’m getting a really good response! For instance, I recently had to do a presentation to my department. Everybody had lots of interesting comments and I even made some science contacts for future experiments

    • Photo: Sian Richardson

      Sian Richardson answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      You can get lost in your own little world in the lab and don’t really see any gain from your work. However going out their speaking at lectures or conferences you see how engaged people are about your work. I remember during my phd I went to a conference where people from all over Europe came, I gave a talk about the use of antioxidant foods such as green tea and red wine to help with the ageing process and diseases. Afterwards I had so many questions, one in particular was which country had the best wine, the room erupted with people arguing who had the best wine! The French! No the Spanish!, No the Hungarians! In the end I gave an answer that the Spanish were looking into different ways to dry the grapes to increase the antioxidant content in them. It may not be the best but the more healthy

    • Photo: Lizzie Wright

      Lizzie Wright answered on 10 Mar 2018:

      Response to research is great. We spend a lot of time in the lab and then present at medical meetings and get to talk about our results. People are usually very interested and ask a lot of questions, comparing techniques.

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