• Question: did anyone influence you to be a scientist?

    Asked by iidontneedyouu to Jena, Zarah, Freddie, Kirsten, Kon on 8 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by pooja, flower, musketeer231, Frey frey, isabel.
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      Jennifer Bates answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      My teachers played a big role in my decision to be an archaeologist, at school and at university. I wasn’t sure if I was going to do archaeology at university until I talked with my teacher and he encouraged me to pursue it as he knew it was what I really truly wanted to do.

      I was also influenced by watching popular science/archaeology shows that made me realise it was possible to do science and archaeology for a career, programmes like Time Team. Dr Alice Roberts is someone that currently is very inspiring and makes me think a lot about how I talk about my research.

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