#BrumSciCommDo you want to increase secondary school student engagement in neuroscience? Could you help raise the profile of neurosciences, and inspire youngsters interested in this science field? Then become a Brain Bee Ambassador! As a Brain Bee Ambassador, you’ll be your region’s champion for neurosciences, bringing the many different flavours of neurosciences and science engagement […]
The Copper Development Association has recently launched its 2018 Uncover Copper competition, inviting UK students aged 11–16 to explore copper’s essential role in our present and future to win great prizes for themselves and their schools. The Uncover Copper competition calls on students to uncover copper, seeking it out in buildings, health and medicine, and […]
The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its public engagement spark awards. These support programmes of novel public engagement that focus on a topic within the council’s remit, which includes astronomy, solar and planetary science, particle physics, particle astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and accelerator science. Applications that highlight the social, ethical, and economic […]
The Royal Society of Edinburgh invites applications for the Cormack astronomy small outreach grants. These enable individuals or groups to develop public understanding of science activities in Scotland in the field of astronomy. The scheme helps to set up new projects or to add new elements to existing ones, but does not fund ongoing activities. Projects […]
Stop what you’re doughing, cancel all your flans, the Bio-Bodies Bake-Off is back for 2017! GBBO is now back on our screens, and love it or hate it, you can’t deny some of those ‘illusion cakes’ were pretty unbelievable – but The Physiological Society think you can do better! Biology Week (Saturday 7 to Sunday […]
Do you have experience of engaging the public with genome editing or related fields? Are you a researcher in the field of genome editing? If so, we need your help! Over the coming twelve months we’ve been funded by Wellcome to develop innovation and collective impact in public engagement within genome editing. Working in partnership with […]
If you love listening to podcasts and love science… this is for you. There are many podcasts out there, and you can find it hard to keep track of them, so here is a big list of science podcasts that Lewis MacKenzie has found. It’d be great if this could become a comprehensive list, so if […]
List members might be interested in two recent publications from Wellcome-commissioned research, which are available on our website. The first, by 2CV, is called ‘The context of youth workers’. It sets out the drivers and motivations of youth workers and explores how science engagement might help them achieve their goals. It includes a guide on how […]
Today The Curious Act has launched Pop Up Science, a free and practical guide to transforming empty shops into creative spaces for science engagement. The guide was written to disseminate learning from our two pilot pop up science shop projects funded by Wellcome (The Heart and Lung Repair Shop and The Heart and Lung Convenience […]
We are excited to announce that submissions are now open to be a part of Cheltenham Science Festival 2018 which takes place from the 5th to the 10th of June. For those that don’t know us, the Festival is a 6-day celebration of science, jam-packed with thought-provoking discussions, energetic schools shows, hands-on workshops, mindblowing performances […]
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