Presenting to parliament
4 April 2012
Dr Arjun Ghosh, a cardiologist and final year PhD student at Imperial and the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, attended parliament on 12 March to present his work to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain – an organisation which supports Britain’s early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers and technologists. Arjun (pictured with his local MP Lynne Featherstone) describes his experience:
“I was excited to take part in the event as it was my first time in parliament and it was a fantastic opportunity to give visibility to my work, which will benefit many patients, to key decisionmakers in healthcare and to other scientists. I presented a poster on the effects that raised blood pressure in early adult life can have on the heart in late adulthood. I was judged against dozens of other scientists in the only national competition of its kind, after being shortlisted from hundreds of applicants. I wanted to show the importance of the work researchers do to change clinical practice, and how necessary it is for that work to be supported at a government and policy level. During the day I learned about related research and also got to discuss possible future collaborations. It was quite a different experience from my day job, and I enjoyed the challenge of communicating my research to a lay audience. I would definitely recommend it to other Imperial researchers.”
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