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Asked by anon-215100 to Laura, Kathryn, Ian, Chris, Bogdana, Alex on 10 Jun 2019.
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Ian Cookson answered on 10 Jun 2019:
Short term, to produce work that can be published and contribute to the discussion around transport. Long term I think we all hope it can be of huge benefit to society. There’s a climate emergency that I think children your age are much more aware of, and I think adults need to be more involved in finding solutions. My research can help with that.
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Laura Fisk answered on 10 Jun 2019:
Long term – to make positive differences to people’s lives. In the short term, to help improve what we know about how best to offer help to people so they can use it.
My research takes the form of describing how I work – seeing how people come and see me in the GP surgeries and what they ask for help with and how I help them. It’s a new way of working, and partly I’m seeing if its possible to work like this as a psycholigist (turns out it is) and therefore helping other psychologists see that it’s possible – so that they might be able to do it too. -
Bogdana Huma answered on 11 Jun 2019:
Short term: I’m currently researching unsolicited sales calls (‘cold’ calls) in order to better understand how we can resist being talked into buying things over the phone. This type of nuisance calls is particularly dangerous for people from vulnerable categories (such as old people) so I would ultimately like to help protect them from being cheated out of their money.
Long term: I’d like to extend my research onto other types of nuisance calls (such as scam calls in which the caller pretends to be, say from the bank, in order to get your credit card details) and nuisance e-communication (such as phishing emails which try to trick you into disclosing usernames & passwords from accounts such as Apple of Netflix that are linked to your credit card). -
Alex Lloyd answered on 11 Jun 2019:
In short term, I hope to contribute to our understanding of when and why teenagers take risks using a bunch of different research techniques. If we can understand this, then we can help steer people away from negative types of risk taking and onto more positive types of risk taking.
In the long term, I would like to work with the government and the youth justice system to change how we work with young offenders. I think to reduce youth crime, we should focus on psychological factors that can lead teenagers to commit crimes in the first place.
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