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British Science Week grants open

British Science Week grants for schools and community groups are now open! To help with BSW events, the British Science Association are encouraging all grant applicants to use Science Live, our online platform for connecting event organisers, contributors and audiences. We recently added new features to Science Live. Many of you were already registered and will have […]

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Royal Society Public Engagement Training

Here are some upcoming training opportunities for early-mid career scientists. You can find out more about specific courses at the links below, or register for any of the courses here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/8B8U4/. Public engagement in practice, Tuesday 14 November, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester This course is for scientists with prior experience in public engagement. The […]

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Physiological Society grants up to 5k

The Physiological Society is offering grants of up to £5000 to support public engagement. The grants, which are available to both members and non-members, are designed to fund innovative and creative projects on any aspect of physiology. We particularly encourage collaborations between science communicators, artists, facilitators of public engagement, and our members. We are open to […]

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Temp Job with Medical Mavericks

Medial Mavericks are currently looking for an enthusiastic presenter to help us deliver a series of Assemblies to schools across the West Midlands throughout November, December, January and February. The Assemblies are showcasing amazing careers in the NHS and last anything from 8 minutes (we did a 5 minute one the other day!!!) to 30 […]

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Comedy seminars at Funny Things

Tomorrow (Friday 3rd) and Saturday 4th Nov, the Funny Things Festival are working in partnership with Big Difference to run a series of seminar talks and discussions that take us beyond the jokes and under the skin of comedy. Entry is FREE, no need to book: BEYOND A JOKE SEMINARS – at the Chancellor’s Hall, University […]

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British Science Festival, Hull 2018 proposals call

Want to be part of next year’s British Science Festival? Now’s your chance. We have opened the call for proposals and Award Lecture nominations. Next year, the Festival is taking place in Hull – the 2017 UK City of Culture – and will be hosted by the University of Hull between 11 – 14 September […]

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Mission: Possible – a science communication challenge

Originally posted on The Obee Reardon:
The brief arrived via Twitter.  How could I resist? This blog is about generating some ideas not taking into consideration time, money, people, resources and logistics. To make things really interesting the questioner is based in the USA but requested ideas that can be adapted by them to their…

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Life Sciences in Six

Six talks, six minutes each, a swift way to learn more about the life changing, lifesaving, life sciences research taking place across the University of Birmingham and beyond. Monday 27 November 2017, 6.00-7.15pm, Birmingham Repertory Theatre In this exciting, free event, introduced by Michele Paduano, BBC Midlands Today’s Health Correspondent, and held at the prestigious Birmingham […]

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Job – Scicomm specialist, Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition

Waltham is the fundamental science centre for Mars Petcare and focuses on the nutrition and wellbeing of dogs, cats, horses, birds and fish, and their benefits to humans. The Science Engagement and Communication Team play a critical role in the centre’s operation, partnering with researchers to create inspiring communication content that tells the story of […]

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Job – Stroke Association, Bromsgrove

The Stroke Association are currently looking to recruit a Prevention Marketing Officer, based in Bromsgrove. This can be a full or part time role. The Stroke Association is the leading UK stroke charity. We have been leading the fight against stroke for over 20 years. We influence and campaign to improve stroke care and support people to make […]