 I'm Laura Harkness, I'm a third year PhD student at the University of Liverpool and I work on a project called Prospectus, which is a development and next generation medical imaging device in medical physics. So I've been designing the new system and sort of optimising it using lots of simulations so that whenever the system comes we're going to have the best system that we could possibly have. Hopefully and then once the system comes I'm going to be involved in testing it and make sure it does what I said I did. Okay so how did you actually get involved with physics as well, how did that sort? Well when I was at school one of my teachers was brilliant basically so I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do after school at all. And then I did a level of physics and my teacher was really really good and inspired me to go and do physics at university so I didn't even know then what I would do afterwards. But as I went through my degree I discovered that I still wanted to do something very applied so I was doing an application in Madison and it seemed the right way to go. And so what would you say to you girls who are thinking about doing science, what's your goal? Go for it. I think there's lots of opportunities it's just that there may be not that I'll wear at the time but definitely there's lots of opportunities for women to do well in science and engineering as well. And lots of variation on sort of the typical physics if you like so like what I do it's not necessarily what I'm finding in the Higgs boson which is what most people think of physics. I try to convince my family and friends of what I was going to do afterwards you know like going and doing physics it's quite an unknown route. Really lots of my friends were going to have to be a doctor or like to be a nurse and they knew exactly what they wanted to do. I just thought it was a subject that I'd really like to study so and they just had to believe me that it was going to work out okay and that I was going to find a route on way. Okay so what's your plans after soon? I would really like to stay in research so I'd like to stay at the Liverpool University if they'll keep me. And sort of get involved in testing this because I'm ready to hand in my thesis in the next couple months so come on to the end.