• Question: sorry to bother what have you done to make the world inspired? thank you for reading

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      Asked by bomberfish795 to Alan, Becky, Jo, Sankar, Sarah on 9 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Alkane.
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        Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2015:


        I like my work but where I think I can inspire is by visiting schools and demonstrating the cool and exciting chemistry experiments which got me excited about science. I do this as often as I can and in the last year have demonstrated experiments to about 1000 pupils in and around the city of Aberdeen.

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        Sarah Kirk answered on 10 Mar 2015:


        No bother at all 🙂

        I don’t think I have the reach to inspire the whole world, I would have to be incredibly well known to do so. But I would like to think that I inspire the people in my life. My mum actually gets really excited about my research and asks me about it – at least I’ve inspired one person!

        I have been to science festivals before, and I when I am there I show everyone I speak to how passionate I am about what I do. I also have exciting demonstrations of chemistry, everyone loves a good explosion!

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