Careers: Choosing science at school (V0327)
There are many reasons to choose science at high school. In this clip, Rebecca Abbot from Crop & Food Research, now called Plant & Food Research, explains how her older brother persuaded her to take science.
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Rebecca Abbot loves the constantly changing nature of her job at Crop & Food Research and the daily challenges that arise, but why did Rebecca choose to study science at school and what did she study after that?
Transcript
Rebecca Abbot (Plant & Food Research): My brother said to me at high school to do science at high school through to seventh form level, because if I then decided to do arts at university I could pick up arts without any problems. They don't tend to have prerequisites [for arts degrees], whereas for science-based degrees, you tend to have had physics, or chemistry, or biology to seventh form level. So that was mainly how I got into science.
I did a Bachelor of Technology and Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering at Massey University. Since then, I have completed a post-grad diploma in nutrition, and I have almost completed a PhD in nutrition as well.
Probably the main thing I love about my job is that it’s always changing. I always said that I would stay in a role for as long as I wasn't bored. But I haven't got bored yet. I suppose because Crop & Food have so many projects and so many programmes going on, that you are often pulled into different projects, even if it’s just for a small amount of time.
So you are always learning, everything is always changing, and that’s what I found so interesting, and it’s quite challenging having that changing all the time
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- Published:
- 16 November 2007
- Copyright:
- The University of Waikato
