how will you job affect peoples lives ??

Question: how will you job affect peoples lives ??

Asked by 06mantizibat to Paul, Sarah, Mark, Lily, Laura on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by bossofslang, fatimaaa, abbiekeen, caliscrazy, sciencekid, eleanorbeedles, suhani, vanessa.
- Mark Roberts answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  My research will eventually lead to new antimicrobial compounds and new antibiotics.
  
  In the short term it just gives us more knowledge but longer term this knowledge can be used to fight disease
- Lily Asquith answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  There are thousands of physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider, so I am just a little brick in a very big wall. A happy little brick, though!
  
  The research we do there is sometimes called ‘blue skies’ research, because it doesn’t have any obvious application or commercial value. We are doing it because we want to know the answers, not because we want to make someone a load of money.
  
  Having said that, the world wide web was invented at CERN (and given away for free use by everyone in the world) and the work we do there has resulted in very promising new cancer treatments (proton therapy) and helped improve the software that keeps sattellites in orbit around the planet.
  
  So we’re quite useful really, even if we don’t mean to be 😉
- Sarah Bardsley answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  By helping the Environment Agency prepare for the future I help the organisation better protect the environment – which has an impact on everyone living in England and Wales. We all benefit from clean air and water, healthy green spaces and protection from flooding and pollution.
- Laura Maliszewski answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  Affecting others’ lives is actually the best part of my job. I help researchers by telling them where they can get funding or by introducing them to inspiring people.
  
  My best possible day is contributing to policy that improves life for all Britons. For example, we’re working on a project to change how medicines are prescribed. The idea is to test you first to see if the medicine will help and only prescribe the right medicine to the right person. That way less medicine is used (saving money) and more people get the right treatment (improving lives). It’s still a ways out, but we’re trying!
- Paul Roche answered on 21 Jun 2010:
  
  The main influence I have is probably in the educational work I do – I try to show people, how exciting and fun science can be (maybe not what you think when you study it in school?!), so that they will appreciate science more in the future (because taxpayers fund a lot of research) and maybe some of them will become scientists. If we don’t have enough scientists, our economy will struggle in the future, as we are so reliant on science and technology these days.
  
  So I guess my affect is to try and make people like science more – and then hopefully some of them will eventually go on to become great physicists, chemists, biologists etc., and their work will help cure diseases, reduce global climate change etc. etc.

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