• Question: Did your family have a background in science or was it a passion that you cultivated on your own terms?

    Asked by anon-246300 to Megan, Katherine, Jesse, Dave, AJ, Amelia on 10 Mar 2020.
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      Dave Constable answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      A little bit of both!

      My parents both worked at Universities, my dad in Pharmacy, my mum in Biology. I was around Universities a lot as a child, and so, I got to talk to lots of their colleagues about what they did.

      I ended up having a career in Physics though! My family really encouraged me to be interested in science, and I always enjoyed learning how things worked. I took that encouragement but in my own direction.

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      Jesse Dykes answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      My family has no background in science or any higher education, so it was all me. I get a lot of practice explaining physics to people who don’t know anything about it!

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      Amelia Edwards answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      None of my family really have a background in science,definitely not my mum and dad!
      It was something I discovered on my own. They are supportive of my job now even though they really don’t understand what I do!

      If your family don’t have a background in science don’t let that stop you from following your own interest in science

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      Arjuna James answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      My family have no background in science whatsoever. It was definitely a passion that I discovered myself, even though it took me a while!

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      Katherine Graves answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      No there’s no real background in science! My parents both went to university but they studied business. My older sister does science but followed the biology route, rather than the physics route. I really enjoyed science at school so I wanted to continue!

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      Megan Maunder answered on 12 Mar 2020: last edited 12 Mar 2020 9:36 am

      Whilst no one in my family is a scientist, they are definitely curious thinkers and I was always encouraged to explore and ask questions. I was also more interested in the humanities until my late teens.Broadly, I would say I was always supported by my family, but my passion for my present field was cultivated later in life; I didn’t know Space Weather existed until I was halfway through my undergraduate degree.

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