• Question: What are you studying or have studied in science?and why?

    Asked by anon-224980 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Simon Brown

      Simon Brown answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I am not science educated. I left school 30 years ago with a low Chemistry qualification and muddled through life not using much.
      Now I work at a university in the Chemistry department, it’s really awakened my science passion.
      I no longer what to have no qualifications and amongst many other courses, I’m currently studying for a Diploma in Laboratory Safety Level 4.
      Wish me luck.

    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I have studied Biology and parasites, biomedical science, diseases in cells and tissues and.. wait for it… tooth erosion!

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      For my undergraduate dissertation I investigated different ways of determining carboxyhaemoglobin levels in blood (carbon monoxide poisoning) and how effective my local mortuary’s method of storing blood was, i.e. how much carbon monoxide might have diffused out of the stored blood, into the air within the container, and therefore altered the results.
      My PhD research is based on the forensic analysis of cosmetic foundation samples and whether or not this type of trace evidence could be differentiated using spectroscopic techniques and chemometrics. The hope is this method can be integrated into forensic practice at some point in the future and add another dimension to trace evidence analysis! 🙂

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