Question: What do you 'do' as a psychologists , apart from teaching and answering e-mails? do you work in a certain environment or something?

Sam Carr answered on 22 Jun 2017:

Well, my job as a psychologist is firstly to ask questions about psychology – so I’m interested in all sorts of questions – like “how can we help foster children who have lost faith in adults to trust adults again?” or “is depression experienced by old people at the end of life different to depression experienced at other stages of life – and why? and how?” or “what are the challenges facing refugee children who arrive in the UK on the back of a lorry? How do they manage to cope with building a new life and dealing with the trauma of losing all that they had?”

Then, I try to answer those questions by doing research projects that actually try to understand these issues better and to answer these questions so that we can make people’s lives better.

Then, I also teach what I find, write about what I fond, contribute to knowledge, and communicate with the public about what I find. I guess it’s about trying to make the world a better place – by finding stuff out.