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Asked by anon-181891 on 16 Jun 2018.
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Ashley Akbari answered on 16 Jun 2018:
Personally I always like Physics more at School – in my current work I would more in the field of computer of data science, but we use results and learning from all of these disciplines in the research of medical informatics
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Claire Donald answered on 17 Jun 2018:
Biology was my favourite subject at school and I still use it in my job. I study mosquitoes and the viruses they spread so I need to know how viruses interact with cells (of both mosquitoes and people) and what happens to make us sick.
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Joanne Sharpe answered on 17 Jun 2018:
I find all of them fascinating! I actually think we shouldn’t be separating them out so much – they overlap a lot and we couldn’t have such a complete understanding of the world without using all of them together. For example, you cannot understand how a cell works without understanding the molecular structure of the proteins inside it! And in order to understand how we can generate energy from the food we eat, we have to understand the chemistry behind that. Even physics is really important in biology, for example we have proteins within our cells that move things around called “motor proteins” and we have to understand the physical forces involved to understand how they transport things around the cell! Also, a lot of biologists use microsocopes in their work, and microscopes couldn’t have been invented without physicists. So, although I am a biologist and I’m interested in biological things, I need chemistry and physics every day to do my work.
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Lauren Burns answered on 18 Jun 2018:
I actually find space really fascinating, so would say either Physics or Maths. But I agree with Joanne, the more you research, the more you realise how interconnected the sciences are. In Psychology, you have to understand how the brain works, down to how a neuron in the brain is activated (this reaction is chemical, so you have to know Chemistry to understand this). You also need to understand the biology of how the brain controls the body, what happens when tumours or lesions occur, and how the body responds to hormone releases. To understand what happens in the brain and conduct experiments, you need to know how the devices we use to study this works, for example, fMRI machines, EEG, tDCS – all require a knowledge of physics in order to understand what is happening in the participants’ brains. All the sciences are important and having an understanding of them is always a good thing!
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Laura Hemming answered on 24 Jun 2018:
I guess Biology is the most related to my work – looking at Psychology and mental health. But in all honesty, I tend to see things from a much more social science perspective, which means that my work doesn’t tend to draw too much on biological, physics or chemist theories. That’s not to say that they shouldn’t – we need to try and see one problem from as many different perspectives as possible.
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