I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.