• Question: what future plans do you have for your career, and how will you apply your current work to this

    Asked by anon-203825 to Vassilis, Tirso, Matthew, Jane, Dawn, Alexandra on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Alexandra Quigley

      Alexandra Quigley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’d like to keep on working with people in pain. I’d quite like to also write some articles for the public so that pain is understood better. Maybe I would also do some YouTube videos explaining pain, and set up my own YouTube channel.

    • Photo: Dawn Rose

      Dawn Rose answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I am working on a project called Empowering Musicians, about the wellbeing of musicians and how the stresses and strains fo being a musician can be managed better.

      My next project will be Drumming for Parkinson’s. This will involve developing a 12 week drum circle intervention to help connect the sound and movement areas of the brain to help people with Parkinson’s to manage their movements.

    • Photo: Matthew Longo

      Matthew Longo answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’d like to continue with my research and teaching. The farther I get in my career, the less I feel like I actually know. So I’m always trying to learn more and to improve how I do my work.

    • Photo: Vassilis Sideropoulos

      Vassilis Sideropoulos answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I would like to continue my research in a more advanced level and maybe engage in other sciences as well. For instance, become more involved in robotic sciences or computer sciences!

    • Photo: Tirso Gonzalez Alam

      Tirso Gonzalez Alam answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I’m finishing my PhD so I’m pretty much just getting started as a researcher. I love it with a passion though: having stimulating conversations about really cool ideas with super smart people, going to engaging talks and events that really make you think deeply about stuff you care about and travelling to awesome places to present your findings are like a dream come true if you like this kind of stuff. It’s true you also have to do some stuff you might not enjoy so much, like writing really long applications for funding and be in a very competitive scene, but if you ask me, I think it’s worth it. I’d really like to get a post doc and start working with machine learning (using computers’ “brain power” to help us understand really complicated data) in brain imaging to better understand brain function!

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