I’m also a misfit scientist at the University of Oxford. We’re ‘misfits’ because we do the opposite of what people expect academics to do. Researchers tend to zoom into a problem, to get as close as possible and pick it apart. We zoom out. My job is not to do original studies, or to make scientific breakthroughs. It’s to understand what we already know. Or could know if we studied the information we have properly. Then explain it to people: in articles, on the radio, on TV, and in government offices so they can use it to move us forward.
