• Question: What is the best part of your job ?

    Asked by anon-188706 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Shanti Shanker

      Shanti Shanker answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Working with patients and/or clinical research is what keeps me alive. But I also like teaching and research equally!

    • Photo: Nadine Mirza

      Nadine Mirza answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      My favourite part about the job is getting to communicate the work to the public which is called public engagement. I love writing it up for articles or blog posts or getting to speak at events or do stalls at science festivals. Or through activities like I’m A Scientist! I get very excited about it and it challenges me to think of more and more creative ways to explain my research.

    • Photo: Alex Reid

      Alex Reid answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I really like working with other people and communicating about science and psychology. These are two things I get to do a lot of in my job, and both of those reasons are why I volunteered with these other fine folk to do this 🙂

    • Photo: Paul Matusz

      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Hi, to me is the ability of equalising learning opportunities to mostly healthy but disadvantaged children in normal schooling, as well as bringing back visual skills, including abilities to read and do basic and more complex maths to children who have problems with vision (like “lazy eye”) or those with dyslexia or even people with problems with moving.
      In one big project of mine we test if virtual reality games can be a potential new treatment for kids with “lazy eye”. Currently the existing treatments – like patching the dominating eye, up to 6h per day! – are very slow (years) and patients really dislike it. And they are not this effective. So if we can help these treatments by those involving fun games, that’d be amazing to me!

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