• Question: What do you think about the work of scientists in other countries? Has it inspired you or influnced you in any way?

    Asked by anna96 to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Sian Lawson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I work a lot with scientist in other countries, and for a while I was one. Each field tends to be a little community that just ahppens to stretch across the world so you’re often just as influenced by someone in Japan as in the next city. Right now I’m working with people in all over Europe and in Taiwan and the USA. Also I have some great colleagues in Japan, South Africa and Brazil that I’m always keen to visit!

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      Sally Barber answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      It’s great to read the work of scientists in other countries. I learn a lot from what they have found out. Sometimes their findings are not always applicable to our country though. So if we wnat to implement their ideas it’s important that we test them in people who live in the UK too. For example today I was reading about an exercise programme which they have shown works to improve quality of life in people with dementia (brain failure) in the USA. Because the medical system and care systems in the USA are very different from what we have here it might not work here so we would have to test it and maybe modify it if we wanted to use it.

      Hopefully next year I will get the opportunity to spend 6 months in Canada and maybe the USA learning about some of the dementia research they have done so that I can bring some of their ideas back to the UK and test them out here.

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      Sally Fenton answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I think the work of scientists in other countries can help us learn alot…especially about other cultures and how they differ from our own. A lot of the research which has been done in the area I work in has been carried out by people in America…and I find the discoveries they have made very inspiring…it makes me want to be as successfull as they are!

      I am also working alot with people from Greece, France, Spain and Norway at the minute and they are all alot older and I wiser than I am and I admire the research they have done! They help me design and develop my own research and look at it from a completely different angle. They give me things to work on..which only makes it better!

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      Peter Styring answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Research is international. One of the best things is to talk with other scientists around the world. Some of my original work was inspired by Pierre Gilles de Genne, a Nobel prize winner from France.

    • Photo: Rebecca Randell

      Rebecca Randell answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Yes, there is so great research in the sports nutrition field coming out of labs in Australia. I hope that once i finish my PhD i can go to these labs in Australia and help them with there work

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