Career stories from ‘Wellcome News’
We have scoured past issues of 'Wellcome News' - the quarterly magazine of the organisation behind 'Big Picture' - to bring you the best interviews. These include 'How I got into…', stories of how researchers got into science, and 'Appliance of science', in which non-scientists including artists and comedians tell us what science means to their work.
In the jokes of a certain kind of comedian, the mother-in-law comes across as part menace, part millstone. But for neuroscientist Dr Chris Connolly, his mother-in-law opened up a whole new area of research.
Clare Williams found herself in the UK at the age of 17 without any academic qualifications, but she is now a professor of medical sociology at Brunel University.
Working as a mechatronics engineer means things are more complicated for David Noonan than when he was playing with Meccano sets as a child, but no less fascinating.
A pathologist drawn into molecular biology in the mid-1980s, Professor Mike Stratton tells Chrissie Giles how he’ll never stop being fascinated by cells.
Dr Samson Kinyanjui has overseen rapid growth in support for young African scientists, but his vision extends further.