LUCY

ROGERS

Lucy Rogers

INTERVIEW

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Columnist of this parish and general polymaker

LUCY ROGERS

’ve only just realised that

I’m not actually an engineer:

I’m a maker.” So says Dr

Lucy Rogers, fellow of the

Institution of Mechanical

Engineers, the Royal

Astronomical Society, and the British

Interplanetary Society. She’s also got a

City and Guilds in wood turning, a PhD

in blowing bubbles, and is an alumnus of

a NASA problem-solving academy that’s

finding ways to save us from fiery doom

brought about by space junk.

In an age when specialisms are

rewarded and people increasingly know

more and more about less and less, Dr

Rogers knows lots of things about lots of

things. That makes her a good person to

learn from and an even better person to sit

down to have a cup of tea with, which we

did on a cold frosty morning in February.

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