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Engaging with the public was a key part of our project in order to ensure that the our end product was something that would be of benefit and acceptable to the people who would need to use this. In order to do this we carried out surveys with members of the public at strategic points to guide the project in the best direction. Each survey had a different aim to ensure that we were not doing surveys unnecessarily and to direct the project once we got out the results.
 
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We carried out our first survey before Christmas to investigate the issues people would like to be addressed by an interdisciplinary science project so that we would know what area would be most beneficial for us to do our project in.
 
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100% of out respondents thought that synthetic biology could contribute to serious global challenges which reassured us that the outcome of our own synthetic biology project should be useful, and that this is an area of science that the public have faith in.
 
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We found that the majority of people questioned favoured medical treatments as their preferred area of research. This question was a free answer although the question prompted some answers: "For example: diagnostics, energy, environment, food and nutrition, information processing, manufacturing, therapeutics etc." This may have had an impact on what people chose, but out of the different iGEM tracts available medical and therapeutic purposes were the most preferable.
 
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This again was a free answer question which was unprompted, and gave us answers such as Malaria, treatment of the common cold and asthma treatment. These were all quite vague and not really feasible for us to solve in one summer, but one person suggested probiotic supplements which got us thinking about bacteria as a treatment for diseases in general.
 
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Revision as of 10:40, 15 October 2016

iGEM Oxford 2016 - Cure for Copper

Surveys

Introduction

Engaging with the public was a key part of our project in order to ensure that the our end product was something that would be of benefit and acceptable to the people who would need to use this. In order to do this we carried out surveys with members of the public at strategic points to guide the project in the best direction. Each survey had a different aim to ensure that we were not doing surveys unnecessarily and to direct the project once we got out the results.

First Survey

We carried out our first survey before Christmas to investigate the issues people would like to be addressed by an interdisciplinary science project so that we would know what area would be most beneficial for us to do our project in.

Do you think that synthetic biology can contribute towards the solution of serious global challenges?

100% of out respondents thought that synthetic biology could contribute to serious global challenges which reassured us that the outcome of our own synthetic biology project should be useful, and that this is an area of science that the public have faith in.

What area would you like a project of this sort to focus on?

We found that the majority of people questioned favoured medical treatments as their preferred area of research. This question was a free answer although the question prompted some answers: "For example: diagnostics, energy, environment, food and nutrition, information processing, manufacturing, therapeutics etc." This may have had an impact on what people chose, but out of the different iGEM tracts available medical and therapeutic purposes were the most preferable.

What specific problem would you like to have solved by an interdisciplinary, synthetic biology-based project?

This again was a free answer question which was unprompted, and gave us answers such as Malaria, treatment of the common cold and asthma treatment. These were all quite vague and not really feasible for us to solve in one summer, but one person suggested probiotic supplements which got us thinking about bacteria as a treatment for diseases in general.

Results

This survey was designed as a brief guide to give us some idea as to the direction our project should take. Based on this we decided to investigate the use of bacteria as a medical treatment.

Second Survey

Intro to 2nd survey.

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