Careers from biology | A Big Picture film by the Wellcome Trust
Channel: Wellcome
Date: 07/06/2012

Where could studying biology lead? Considering which post-16 subjects to do is a sizeable decision, usually made at a time when the word 'career' sounds both very serious and very distant. 'Big Picture' wanted to find out how students considering a biology A level imagined earning a wage - do they think jobs involving biology stop with 'being a scientist'? Are there alternatives they have never considered?

To probe this question, Ahmed, a student from Winchmore School in London, volunteered to take up the challenge. Doing a biology A level and considering a career in medicine, Ahmed agreed to meet three people, all of whom had done a biology A level but were using them in very different capacities. In this short film, we follow Ahmed's investigation, which involved fidgeting meerkats and a brush with the law.


A film by Barry J Gibb