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Nancy Doyle

Nancy Doyle

Researcher

Oct 13, 2026

3:38
Yeah.
3:38
So I've always had that kind of systemic public health, public ... you know, what's the wider system issue that causes this? So occupational psychology, which sort of brings in sociology to psychology and looks very much at that intersection between the brain in the context and goes, "Right.
3:56
What do we know about this context that's affecting this brain in this way? Why would we keep finding 10% of the population are dyslexic if there wasn't any benefits to this?" Evolution isn't that bad.
4:10
We know enough about biology to know that if this was purely problematic, we would've got it out of the gene pool by now.
4:17
There must be a- an offset to this kind of thinking.
4:20
Where are the benefits? And so that very sort of premise, which we love in occupational psychology, what are the conditions that make this pattern of behavior make sense? And so I fell in love with that.
4:32
I fell in love with occupational psychology.

20 MINS LATER

24:44
... having conversations.
23:41
So, Nancy, your observations?
23:43
Yeah, Genius Within has funded three PhDs, seven master's degrees and five bachelor's degrees in the last slightly over five years.
23:50
But yeah, we have...
23:51
I don't know.
23:52
I think what Gethin said, I totally agree with.
23:56
And I've just got a slightly different perspective at the moment, which is complementary, I think, which is to go back to the first principles.
24:05
And there was something Susan said at the beginning about, you know, we have no guidance, you know, that in the way that the past is the best predictor of the future, so much is changing.

10 MINS LATER

33:57
And it's about recognising those scenarios, isn't it? Lancey?

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