Idea Collection Series

The idea for his video series, came about in order to have an activity that allowed us to show a more ‘human’ approach to theoretical physics and to demystify the field. It was also an opportunity to showcase the research interests (and personalities!) of the various members of our Higgs Centre, from PhD students to the recently established Higgs Chair. Furthermore, this series was aimed not only at the research community in Edinburgh, but also at colleagues, and collaborators across the globe, as well as the non-scientific public.

Rather than everyone recording themselves and their answers, we conducted interviews with all project contributors to be able to gather some spontaneous and conversational answers.

Introduction

The first chapter in this series aimed at introducing the breadth of experience, fields and areas of science under the auspices of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, with contributions from colleagues within the School of Physics and Astronomy’s three Institutes (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems and the Institute for Astronomy), along with colleagues from the School of Mathematics.

Creativity

Collaboration

Being A Physicist

Global Challenges

We received incredible input from over 20 local researchers (PhD to Chair level), who were ready with answers in this interview-type format, which was used in order to also garner some rather sponatenous answers. We thank them all for their time and their enthusiasm.

Many people made this video series possible, not in the least our incredible editor, Paul Maguire, who managed to make sense of our ideas and Anna Lisa who did 16 of the interviews. See below for a list of everyone who was involved.