• Question: How will the £500 affect what you are doing ?

    Asked by mole2010 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Nick Bradshaw

      Nick Bradshaw answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      I would probably use it to travel to an international confernce to present my work. This would give me a chance to meet up with lots of other scientists from around the world who have similar interests and (hopefully) come up with new collaborations, ways of working together to get better research done faster.

    • Photo: Mariana Vargas

      Mariana Vargas answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      As I would use the cash to contribute to the science activities of my local secondary school, this money would affect what I am doing in helping me communicate my work. This would be great for me as inspiration, and for the community to get them talking about science and perhaps to decide whether they want to be scientists!

    • Photo: Joseph Devlin

      Joseph Devlin answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      It all helps! The £500 will go towards sharing our works and our results more widely, both within the scientific community and also more generally.

    • Photo: Carolyn McGettigan

      Carolyn McGettigan answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      The prize money in this event is specifically for use in public engagement activities, so I would use it to organise an event in schools to get students thinking about sounds and the brain. I want to do this with the help of human beatboxers, as they can do really amazing things with their voices to make all sorts of sounds, and I thought they would make things a lot more fun than if we just talked pure science all day!

      So, I guess the money wouldn’t affect the experiments I’m doing at the moment, but I might get some good ideas for future research from the students and beatboxers I meet! In fact, I have a sneaky plan to get some beatboxers in the MRI scanner to see how their brains are involved in controlling the production of all those amazing sounds. We’ve already started a study like this with voice artists who do spoken impressions for a living, and I think the beatboxers would also be a fascinating ‘expert’ group.

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