#BrumSciCommA collaborative space for creatives, scientists and science communicators around the Midlands to share news, upcoming events and thoughts on outreach and public engagement activities.
The NERC public engagement call (‘Engaging Environments’) inviting proposals for consortium and capacity building projects costing between £50k and £100k has been announced: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/whatwedo/engage/public/pe-call/ This consortium and capacity building stage aims to build a long-term, effective and innovative public engagement community, and support the formation of collaborative teams who will then go on, in a second […]
You may be interested in this post, to work as a Public Engagement and Communications Officer for one of the MRC funded research Institutes at the University of Oxford. More details online here. The deadline for applications is midday 29 June. Please get in touch directly with any questions (emma.obrien@rdm.ox.ac.uk).
It’s the fourth annual London Sci-comm Summer Picnic – eats, tunes, sci-commers and Kubb in the sunshine. Details below – hope you can join us – all welcome! Sunday 9th July 2017 Bring your own food, drink, picnic blankets and games. Hyde Park – specifically 51.506438°N, -0.162520°E Picnic from 1-6pm, then to a nearby pub Hope to […]
This summer BrumSciComm will be bringing science to CoCoMad a community arts festival in Cotteridge Park. This is the 21st year of the festival, run by the Friends of Cotteridge Park and we are delighted to be involved this year! It is being held in Cotteridge Park on Saturday 1st July. We need you the fabulous people […]
Come and join BrumSciComm for our 3rd Birthday celebrations! We are hosting a fun, family friendly, science themed picnic at Cannon Hill Park. Partners, children, friends, pets are all welcome. Bring your favourite science demos to entertain the kids (and the adults!). Also bring your science themed bakes for the annual Great BrumSciComm Bake Off. […]
The Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham is delighted to announce that it has had a new arrival… a Darwinopterus! This short film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kczv92B7tXg) shows its first few moments in the museum and it settling into its new surroundings. I hope you like this short video. This is a particularly important year […]
As part of the EU Doing-It-Together Science project, the Waag Society in Amsterdam are launching a 4-month travelling Science Bus which will bring hands-on workshops and activities across Europe on the theme of Folk Science – Collecting remedies for urban survival. Drawing on the values of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Science movement, the bus will visit locations outside of the typical […]
Where does the stereotype of the mad scientist come from? Professor Alice Roberts, academic and broadcaster, tracks the history of the scientists in the public mind, discussing what can learn from these stories today. The Huxley Summit took place on 8 November 2016 at BAFTA in London on the theme of ‘trust in the […]
The British Science Association is looking for Festival Assistants, Building Managers and Site Managers to work at this year’s British Science Festival held in Brighton between the 5-9 September 2017 and co-hosted by the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. They are looking to recruit a team of organised and enthusiastic individuals with […]
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