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How can community engagement projects empower STEM students?

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I wanted to study physics and chemistry, but I was very bad at maths and I realised maths is key to understanding physics and chemistry. So, a fellow student coached me in maths, and I started doing well in both physics and chemistry. This started my focus on applied environmental physics research.

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Shining a light on the role of trace metals in neurodegenerative diseases

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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be an archaeologist and I studied history and art as well as maths and physics at A-level. After initially studying physics, I was based in an Earth Sciences department at a university for some time, studying how bacteria use metals to form magnetic materials on a very small scale.

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