• Question: when you were a kid did you want to be a scientist?

    Asked by angussteakburger to Gavin, Justin, Audra, Fiona on 11 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by keeta, meganmoult, cath.
    • Photo: Gavin Devereux

      Gavin Devereux answered on 11 Mar 2012:

      No I didn’t. I didn’t do fantastically well at school either. I didn’t really enjoy learning until I was in my early twenties. I started university as a mature student. I was the first person in my old school’s history to get a PhD.

      After I left school I had an engineering apprenticeship, but knew it wasn’t the career for me after a couple of years. It wasn’t until another couple of years later that I became fascinated with how the human body works.

      You’ll likely find your interests will change as you age (mine did – and still do!). However, I really like that as it keeps things interesting.

      Just think of Brian Cox (a much better scientist than me!). He was a keyboard player in a pop band, but now he heads up a project at CERN in Switzerland, and is a Professor at a top university.

      I definitely recommend science now though 🙂

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