• Question: DO YOU THINK YOUR JOB IS IMPORTANT IN EVERYDAY LIFE?

    Asked by barbiegirl1 to Tim, Suzi, Simon, Rachael, Damien on 18 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by bellabxxx.
    • Photo: Suzi Gage

      Suzi Gage answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      @barbiegirl1
      Hi there, thanks for the question
      I think my job is important in everyday life. A lot of people use illicit drugs like cannabis, so research in to finding out more about them is a really good idea, I think.

      That said, even strange scientific research that seems hard to relate back to you or I is still important, because you have to know the basics to look at the big picture.

      Hope this makes sense, let me know if you’d like me to clarify 🙂

    • Photo: Tim Fosker

      Tim Fosker answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hi @barbiegirl1

      I think my job is important for everyday life. Language is special among humans and without the ability to talk to one another or read, life would be very boring. Reading is especially important because we can learn from people who died centuries ago by reading books they have written. Children that have difficulties learning to read are missing out on exciting stories and information about the world. Finding ways of training children’s brains to get better at reading has got to be important.

      I hope that answered your question.

    • Photo: Rachael Ward

      Rachael Ward answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hi barbiegirl1

      I think that all of our work will be important as we are all studying the brain and hoping to increase our understanding of how it controls our mood or feelings, how it develops, how its affected by drugs and how we learn or speak. These are everyday things so yes, I think our work can be considered important in everyday life.

      My work is relevant to helping people with depression and anxiety disorders which are very common in the UK, especially amongst young people.

    • Photo: Damien Hall

      Damien Hall answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      I hope my work is important in everyday life too! I think that, if you know more about someone’s accent and more about how other people might think of that accent (that was part of a project I was involved in before), then you can have better relationships with others.

      Also, I do interviews to get the recorded speech for my work, and the more of them I do, the better I am at talking to people in general. For anyone who teaches (in a school or a University), that’s surely important – you know yourself what the difference between a boring teacher and a really good one is, I’m sure!

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