• Question: who do you think will be the most benefitted from your work if you won?

    Asked by princess_chloe to Duncan, Kiran, Paul, Sarah, Sharon on 23 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Murdock

      Duncan Murdock answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      If I won the £500 prize, I’d like to spend it on outreach in local schools. Lots of schools don’t have access to rock and fossil samples, but lots of people are interested and i’d like to show how to get more information. Hopefully it might inspire some students to go into palaeontology, though I’d be happy if they just enjoyed it.

    • Photo: Paul Stevenson

      Paul Stevenson answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      If I win, I will use the money to visit schools and talk about nuclear physics, so I hope the benefit will be school pupils, but also I hope it will raise the profile of nuclear physics, since I think it’s very interesting and it has loads of useful applications (like in medicine) that I think should be more widely known

    • Photo: Sharon Sneddon

      Sharon Sneddon answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      HI again Chloe, was great chatting to you earlier! If I win the money then the people who would benefit are you guys as I would be using it to come and spend time in schools. It’s really important as scientists to get out and about as it lets people know we are just normal people and also explain to people what our jobs actually involve!

    • Photo: Kiran Meekings

      Kiran Meekings answered on 23 Mar 2010:

      Hi Chloe…. It’s hard to tell as I’d use the money to find new drugs and you can’t tell now which of those drugs will be successful in 20 years time. If I could have a choice, I’d like to find a cure for some of the childhood brain cancers which don’t have any treatments for them at the moment….

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