• Question: have you had many obstacles in becoming a scientist?

    Asked by char2074 to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I can’t say I have.

      My secondary school and sixth form were awful schools which consistently failed to inspire students but I somehow made it through that. When I got to university it was plain sailing. I mean, a lot of hard work went in but I was always motivated and eager to find out more.

    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Other than getting the required qualifications, not really.

      It’s been fun!

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Pulling my grades up was quite a challenge. I’d been offered a PhD place on the condition that I managed to bring my 2:2 up to a 2:1. I spent almost every waking hour working in the library before my final exams and on my dissertation and it all paid off in the end.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      It was difficult to find a PhD grant in Portugal, and at that point I considered different types of work, some in Science some not. In the end I got funding to go do a PhD in the UK, doing crystallography that I loved, so I took that as my cue 🙂

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