Pint of Science festival IS BACK! #Pint23 arrives in Manchester from 22-24th May, bringing a whole host of experts to your local pub to talk about everything from black holes to growing eyes in petri dishes. Get your tickets here before they sell out. For this year’s...
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Migrant Voices Musical Living Library in Longsight – 2 October 2021
The Migrant Voices ‘Living Library’ invites members of the public to meet celebrated musicians from the local community, hear their stories and musical performances, and share their own oral histories with historians from the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah (AIU) race centre. The...
Join us for the UoM Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Final (22 May 2019)
AN 80,000 WORD THESIS WOULD TAKE 9 HOURS TO PRESENT. THEIR TIME LIMIT… 3 MINUTES! Get your FREE TICKETS to the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition – Final Wednesday 22 May, 14:00 – 15:45, University Place Lecture Theatre A Your Invitation Please join us for the...
BIG Event 2019 – Call for Session Proposals OPEN
BIG (the British Interactive Group) is thrilled to announce a return to Scotland for BIG Event 2019. The highlight of the STEM communicator’s annual calendar will see our conference held at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh 17-19 July 2019. Dynamic Earth is a wonderful venue...
Wonder Match Programme – launch events
Are you a scientist or an engineer who has a hunger to share the wonder of your research with others? Are you keen to learn more about how to engage with new audiences? Then Wonder Match could be perfect for you. The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement...
International Women’s Day event invitation
Now more than ever there is a strong call-to-action to press forward and accelerate gender parity. Please join me to #PressforProgress to mark International Women’s Day on Monday 5 March 2018. The Dean, Professor Ian Greer, will open the event and Vice-President for...
Help us mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week
The University Flagship Programme ‘One Student, One Campus, One Life – Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance’ invites staff and students to attend a number of events to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week and European Antibiotic Awareness Day. Events include: Tuesday...
After School Science Club – MSF event needs your help!
After School Science Club: BLOCKS - Friday 27 October, 6.30pm-10pm, Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester, Tickets £9.50, adults 18+ (bar open all night) Finished school, but still excited about science? After School Science Club is a night of...
Talking Maths in Public Conference
Talking Maths in Public Conference Interested in mathematics outreach? Talking Maths in Public is a 1.57-day maths outreach conference, happening on Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd September 2017. If you already participate in, or would like to be more involved with,...
BIG Event 2017 – Call for session proposals OPEN
The call for session proposals for the BIG Event 19 - 21 July 2017 at the Centre for Life, Newcastle is now open. http://www.bigevent.info Every year, STEM engagement professionals get together for a three-day bash to exchange ideas, compare disasters, find their next...
Had Enough of Experts? You Are Invited to the Launch of the Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science
You are warmly invited to an exciting and topical debate to launch the 2016 Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC: BETWEEN OPPOSITION AND ACCOMMODATION Wednesday 2 November, 5pm – 7pm (drinks and nibbles will be served) Geoffrey...
Soapbox Science is back in Manchester!
Manchester scientists get on their soapboxes - Saturday 23 July, 2016, Piccadilly Gardens,City Centre, Manchester, 1pm – 4pm Manchester celebrates its designation as European City of Science with the EuroScience Open Forum (23-27 July). Alongside these celebrations,...
From the Big Bang and anti-matter to tastier ice cream!
Our revolutionary research at Royal Society Summer Exhibition The University is revealing some of its most revolutionary research at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Exhibition this week. The exhibition – which draws in thousands of visitors every year – is an...
Art-science and community projects – celebration event
You are invited to come celebrate and get inspired by some brilliant art-science and community projects on 22 June 2016, 5.30pm, Roscoe Building, Manchester More details and registration: http://artssciencecollaborationcelebration.eventbrite.co.uk To stimulate...
MRC Festival of Medical Research 2016 – events in and around Liverpool
Meet the Scientists at Liverpool World Museum Date: Saturday 18 June 2016, 11:00 - 16:00 Type of event: Activity day Audience: Families Venue Name: Liverpool World Museum Location: Liverpool Description: From Minds to Genes: Meet scientists from the University of...
Stories of Women in Science – Walking Tour for Manchester Histories Festival
On Sunday 5 June 2016, join Manchester Girl Geeks and guests from the University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, for an afternoon walking tour of Manchester's city centre featuring stories of Manchester's historical...
The Great Science Share (European City of Science)
On the 6 July 2016, as part of Manchester’s designation as European city of Science 2016, we are asking all schools across Greater Manchester and beyond to be part of the Great Science Share. We want young people to share their science across the city on that day. See...
Pint of Science – featuring former NASA astronaut Mike Foale
Pint of Science is returning with a special event NEXT WEEK featuring former NASA astronaut Mike Foale ahead of our festival next month. Tickets are £15 or £9 for students. For more information, please check out our website:...
engagement@manchester session: 11 May 2016: Working with school teachers
Please join us at our next engagement@manchester session, where we will explore the topic “Working with school teachers”. Many colleagues across the University work with pupils in schools; but this session will focus on areas of good practise in working with teachers....
Using research to inform higher education policy and practice
Friday, 15 April 2016, free for all participants, Office for Fair Access, Bristol, Signup Deadline: Wednesday, 13 April 2016 Early career researchers make a highly important contribution to the policies and practices of widening participation, fair access, and issues...
Twilight Evening for Researchers
Wednesday 27 April 2016, 5-7.30pm, Manchester Museum You are invited to a VIP evening in The Study at Manchester Museum, our brand new public research space. There’ll be wine, nibbles and a chance to see The Study in action with demonstrations of how researchers can...
Support our researchers at the Famelab North England Regional Heat – 15 February
Famelab – Monday 15 February 2016, 19:30, Museum of Science and Industry (doors open from 18:00) Witness the region’s finest science communicators as they battle it out to win a place in the FameLab national final. Contestants will have just three minutes to pitch a...
Speakezee Presents… Manchester: How the Nose Knows
Thursday 18 February 2016, 19:00 to 21:00, No 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH GB Join us for the launch of Speakezee Manchester. Speakezee evenings showcase a variety of topics, formats and presenters from graduate students delivering their PhD thesis against the...
Early-career STEM communicators: The Little Event 2016
The Little Event 2016 Wednesday 13 January 2016, 9.30am - 4.30pm, Thinktank, Birmingham This one-day conference is for early-career STEM communicators who are keen to suck the knowledge and experience out of those who have been at it for ages. It is also an excellent...
Public engagement events with the BEAM lab
The BEAM lab is jointly run by Drs Ellen Poliakoff and Emma Gowen from the School of Psychological Sciences and the Faculty of Life Sciences. They are interested in how our brains use sensory information such as vision and touch to move and interact with the world...