• Question: did you ever be a science teacher before you became a scientist?

    Asked by shonagregory to Daniel, Jon, Louise, Sharon on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Louise Dash

      Louise Dash answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      No – I have thought about retraining as a science teacher though. For the moment I’m planning to stick with my current job. I do get to do some teaching, but it’s teaching to undergraduate physics students rather than school students. It’s really interesting to see how people learn, and I’d like to do more of it!

    • Photo: Sharon Sneddon

      Sharon Sneddon answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      No, I have never been a science teacher, but I do go out to schools and do workshops with lots of different aged school students, and I also teach a little here at the university

    • Photo: Jon Copley

      Jon Copley answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      No – but I teach science at university as well as doing scientific research.

      Some of my colleagues, though, did teach science in schools before becoming research scientists.

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