• Question: does your work affect people in a positive way, a negative way or not at all?

    Asked by jess to Matthew, Francesca, Andrew on 7 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      As a full time educator, I sincerely hope that my work affects my students in a positive way!

      Sure, there’ll be some that think I am asking questions which are “too difficult”, but that’s really how I get them to *thinkMATOMO_URL If I ask a question that is easy to answer, then everybody will know the answer, won’t think about it, and then won’t question it.

    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      As a scientist I want to believe that my work has the potential to change the world as we see it today. In reality this is normally different, and unless you discover something really huge this is not going to happen.

      When it comes to my work I am being funded by a pharmaceutical company, and my research is part of their drug discovery program, so if it works it has the potential to make a number of medicines cheaper, which should effect a number of people in a positive way.

    • Photo: Francesca Palombo

      Francesca Palombo answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      I hope my work affects people in a positive way – I think we need to ask people!

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