• Question: How does you job benefit children that are growing up in todays socioety?

    Asked by WINCHESTER to Jamie, Kristen, Sheun, Simon, Will on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: William Scott-Jackson

      William Scott-Jackson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      My primary role of producing research would not benefit any children unless they were unfortunate enough to develop lung cancer at an early age.

      But my secondary work in outreach benefits children far and wide. I spend a lot of my time reaching out and teaching new skills to both students and teachers and encouraging them to pursue new disciplines. For every teacher you influence you can potentially benefit hundred’s of children over the years. These children would be learning from teachers I’ve helped train in new skills and they can develop the newly evolving curriculum better than had they tackled it on their own.

    • Photo: Jamie Johnston

      Jamie Johnston answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hopefully by helping to reduce the spread of infections amongst people through quick diagnosis.

    • Photo: Simon Marchant

      Simon Marchant answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      As for me, my work helps any children who are sick with particular things – for example, I help to set up a wheelchair if they need one, and somebody walks differently to normal, us in clinical engineering look at them with loads of cameras and work out what is wrong. And if you ever go into hospital as a patient (I hope you don’t have to, obviously) then all of the equipment will be looked after by clinical engineers and technicians!

    • Photo: Kristen Salzer-Frost

      Kristen Salzer-Frost answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      My job is making sure that buildings are designed to be nice for the people to be in, but are a still safe. This include lots of buildings that children use, including hospitals, schools and sports stadiums. Having a nice place to be in while kids are learning and playing is really important for them to get the most out of life, and I get to make sure they are safe from fire too (which is also very important 😉 )

    • Photo: Sheun Oshinbolu

      Sheun Oshinbolu answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Everyone uses medicine to cure/prevent/illness. Children especially have to take quite a number of vaccines to stay healthy. My work benefits everyone as it is looking to find quicker and easier ways to keep track of the quality of medicines as they need to be of they need to be safe and effective to use. My work has the potential to help pick out the best medicines and may even reduce the time taken from new medicines to go from being created to being sold.

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