Beccy Owen - When Experiments Fail: Staying Positive in Research
About this episode
Beccy Owen discusses how to maintain a positive outlook in research despite the challenges of failed experiments.
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Every researcher knows the sinking feeling of an experiment failing after days, weeks or months of effort. In this blog Beccy talks about how she has learnt to stop letting failed experiments dictate her mood, and why they do not make you a bad scientist. She shares the best advice she has been given, from a lab manager who told her not to let a bad result follow her home, to knowing when to stop and re-evaluate rather than keep going down a dead end. Along the way she looks at accidental discoveries like X-rays and penicillin, the value of work-life balance, and why asking colleagues for help is a sign of a good scientist, not a failing one. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-when-experiments-fail-staying-positive-in-research/ -- Beccy Owen is a PhD Researcher at the University of Warwick, exploring how tau pathology disrupts neuronal ion channels and brain network activity in Alzheimer’s disease. As part of the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Programme, her work uses electrophysiology to better understand the molecular drivers of neurodegeneration. Originally from the Welsh countryside, Beccy’s…
People in this episode
Host: Dementia Researcher
Guest: Beccy Owen
Topics covered
- research challenges
- positive mindset
- work-life balance
- scientific discovery
- neurodegeneration
Keywords
- failed experiments
- research advice
- scientific mindset
- neurodegeneration
- Alzheimer's disease
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Warwick, Dementia Researcher
Places: Welsh countryside
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