Nick McNally
Nick McNally As the National Health Service turns 75, Dr Nick McNally (Managing Director of Research at UCL and UCLH) talks about why he loves the world of research and why he's celebrating this landmark NHS anniversary. I trace back my interest in health and medicine to my undergraduate days in Nottingham when I came across 'medical geography' which explored the concepts of space and place in health and healthcare. It piqued my interest to such an extent that I did a PhD - an interdisciplinary project between the social and medical sciences. What drew me to research in those early days? . It has to be the prospect of being able to generate new knowledge and new insights that just might go on to benefit people - to impact on people's lives in a positive way. As with most people who choose to do PhDs, I reached that point early on in my research when the reality dawned that my contribution to the knowledge bank was going to be small and incremental at best. But, then again, how many people have actually shifted paradigms with their PhDs? Unless you're Marie Curie or Albert Einstein, of course.
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