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Asked by Leon teh Lion to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Mugglewumpf, Charis.
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Francesca Palombo answered on 10 Nov 2014:
Great question – no, I haven’t invented anything in scientific terms. Otherwise, every twist in research direction and techniques used or developed is a sort of invention
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Matthew Camilleri answered on 10 Nov 2014:
When I was working in Norwich I was working on a drug delivery system that would be targeting specific cells in the body. I built the framework of such a system, but unfortunately this never managed to make its way out of the lab.
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Laura Schofield answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I wouldn’t consider myself to be an inventor but my research has found a molecule that we don’t think has been seen before! It’s all very secretive at the moment though as we want to make sure it is what I think it is before we tell everyone!
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Andrew McKinley answered on 10 Nov 2014:
I’ve not formally invented anything, however I have come up with terms that have not been used before. One of which is:
“Knowledge dependency”
This is something that you need to know in order to learn something else. It’s something we come across all the time in research – to keep stretching out to learn about something, you need to put a support in place.
We come across them all the time in chemistry teaching too: to fully understand ‘valence shells’, you need to know what an atomic orbital is. To fully understand atomic orbitals, you need to start considering quantum mechanics! Consequently, we teach you a bit of one topic, then we start teaching you a bit of the dependency, which allows us to further extend our original topic, and so on.Teaching is rarely easy! And there is no one ‘correct’ order to teach things
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