• Question: At what age did you want to become a scientist

    Asked by anon-235997 to Tom, Rachel, Priya, Jessica, Dan, Beatrice on 9 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-235990.
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      Priya Silverstein answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      I think when I was a teenager, that’s when I realised I could be a psychologist but also be a scientist (rather than a therapist, which is what I thought a psychologist was before that)

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      Beatrice Hayes answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Not until I was 24!! I was a primary school teacher before then, but I did a Psychology degree. I realised how much I missed Psychology and how much I loved my research dissertations. So I decided to go back to science 🙂

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      Jessica Pope answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      I think when I was around 13/14? The area of science has changed, but definitely in my teenage years. I wanted to be a paramedic for a while, then a surgeon, then a behavioural analyst, clinical psychologist and now I’m here! So yeah, though the area has changed it’s probably been since I was a teenager.

      TLDR: since I was about 14 🙂

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      Rachel Reid answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Probably whilst studying animal behaviour in Biology at school. I was about 15 I guess! They didn’t have a Psychology course at my school but it has since grown so much in popularity since then!

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      Tom Gallagher-Mitchell answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      I think i had always liked experimenting, my brother and I would always create thing out of mud etc in our garden so perhaps when I was about 7-8, this then developed throughout school where i enjoyed biology (especially dissection of frogs and genetics with fruit flies).

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      Dan O'Hare answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      I decided I wanted to be an educational psychologist when I was 17! I finally qualified as one when I was 27!

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