Dear Gavin,
Thanks that's great!
Yes - don't worry you are more than qualified.
We will need anyone who answers a Big Question to have a science related degree and work in the science industry in some form - but we are actually quite keen to have scientists answering Big Questions who work in wide range of different types of career (from science outreach to lab researcher to industry).
This way people who use the blog will not only learn the answers to Big Questions but should also learn about the diverse number of careers (and great events that go on) in science.
Please let me know if you have any more questions!
Kind regards,
Jenny
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gavin Merrifield
Sent: 29 February 2008 15:33
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Can you help us?
Dear Jenny,
Are you looking for any particular amount of qualifications experience here?
I have a a degree in astrophysics, a postgrad diploma in photonics and a couple years of biomedical physics research along with a strong interest in science and religion issues. I currently work at the University of Edinburgh.
If you think I might be suitable I'd be happy to help.
Cheers,
Gavin
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--- Jenny Beard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Psci-commers,
>
> I wonder if you can help?
>
> As part of this year's National Science and Engineering Week, the BA
> are running a project called "The Big Questions" which challenges the
> public to pose their burning science and engineering questions which
> we will attempt to answer during the week through live events, online
> and via the media.
> www.the-ba.net/thebigquestion.
>
> We have had a number of questions in already (on a huge variety of
> topics) but we are hoping to launch this to the national media at the
> start of the Week (6th March) and this is expected to encourage a
> large number of submissions by the public. We are currently looking
> for scientists/experts to help us answer some of these questions and I
> wondered whether you might be able to help with this and/or you could
> either help us identify some suitable experts to approach? So far, we
> have various organisations on board to help us to answer questions,
> ranging from the British Library to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
> and ideally we would really like representatives from all the
> scientific disciplines to be on board to support this!
>
> You can find a list of the questions we've had in so far at
> http://bigquestion.wordpress.com/ - you can search by category or can
> look through the unanswered questions by clicking on the links down
> the left hand side - most of the questions are quite simple but some
> have very subjective answers, some are also quite silly, and quite a
> few are variations on a common theme.
>
> It wouldn't require any meetings. Instead we would ask you have a
> look through the questions on the blog (preferably the unanswered
> ones) and if you could answer any of them we'd ideally like a short
> answer between 50 and 200 words in answer which we/you would add to
> the blog. You would obviously get credit for this âEUR" and you can have
> space for information (i.e. about your events or institution or
> research you do) and a link to a suitable website if you would like.
> We would like people who look at the blog to not only learn about the
> science behind the big questions but also about those people who can
> answer them and the careers and events they do.
>
> We would like to be able to tackle the majority of the questions we
> have so far by the 6th March - however - I also suspect we will get in
> a brand new batch at the start of the Week which we would like to have
> some answers for by the 13th March (so quite a short turn around
> time!)
>
> I hope this all makes sense. Any help you could give us with this
> would be really appreciated as we would like to answer as many Big
> Questions as we possibly can!
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jenny Beard
>
>
>
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>
> Jenny Beard
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