 I'm Fabie Meekings and I'm a research fellow at the University of York. Hi, I'm Mariam Alpitti, I'm a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. I grew up 15 minutes on the district line from the Palace of Westminster but it might well have been another world because I grew up in social housing and the Palace of Westminster is literally a palace. When I started or applied for this scheme I knew about the idea of science influencing policy. I didn't know really how. I've learnt that the people who make the policy are just people with a job like I've got a job and it really yeah definitely empowered me, it definitely made me feel like I can talk to these people, maybe I can use my research to make a difference. I think the special part of the Paris scheme was to shadow and follow one of the MPs. I think this is something unique and that you cannot see in any other schemes or in any other workshop and courses and it was really fantastic to see first-hand and touch-first-hand these impressive work that they are doing daily life and it is so remote, it seems so remote from what we do in science but actually can be interconnected. For everyone there are things background knowledge that we have that politicians don't and many of them don't even have a science background they might not have done any science past GCSE so there's a particular way of thinking that we as scientists can bring to Parliament that is really valuable.