• Question: Is anyone else in you're family scientists

    Asked by anon-206501 to Zoe, Kai, Jose Eliel, Hannah, Hamid, Claire on 2 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-206404, anon-206819.
    • Photo: Jose Eliel Camargo Molina

      Jose Eliel Camargo Molina answered on 2 Mar 2019: last edited 2 Mar 2019 1:36 pm

      In my particular case, I was the first one in my family to be interested in the natural sciences. My dad is a literature professor/artist and my mom works in pedagogy.

      I have colleagues from many different backgrounds, from the biggest cities in the world to tiny rural villages in countries I had never heard before. Often they are even the first ones in their families to have gone to university, but of course, some others come from a long tradition of academics.

      I think, compared to other subjects, science is very open in terms of your cultural and family background, as long as you are passionate and put the required effort.

    • Photo: Zoe Wimshurst

      Zoe Wimshurst answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Not as far as I know. My mum works as a copy editor – so she reads other peoples work and makes sure all the spelling and grammar is correct (really useful for checking my work!) and my dad is a building surveyor so he checks houses are in a good condition and not likely to fall down! My brother is a policeman.
      They are all really interested in sport though (everyone in my family plays hockey) so that is where my interest started and I got into science by thinking about how to make people better at their sport.

    • Photo: Hannah Collingwood

      Hannah Collingwood answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’m the only one in my family who works in science, but I have family members who studied very similar subjects to me and who are engineers. Subjects like maths and physics make it very easy to follow different career paths – they’re useful in so many different fields.

    • Photo: Claire Greenwell

      Claire Greenwell answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Yep! My Dad and sister are both engineers – aeronautical (aeroplanes, wind turbines, cars, anything where the air moving quickly across something will affect it), and civil (buildings, bridges, roads, really a very important job!). Engineering of all types is really scientific, but in a bit more of a practical way.

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