ScienceX is back for 2022, bursting with fun, exciting, interactive activities for families. The University of Manchester's Faculty of Science and Engineering’s ScienceX event aims to reach family audiences who wouldn’t usually seek out science based events or venues....
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Manchester Festival of Climate Action
The University of Manchester is to host a four-day programme tackling today’s biggest climate questions. Taking place two weeks before COP26, experts at the Manchester Festival of Climate Action (11-14 October 2021) will share insights and innovative solutions to the...
Festival of Social Science returns to Manchester 7-15 November 2020
2020 has been a challenging year seeing many famous festival and productions unable to proceed, but we are delighted to announce that the ESRC Annual Festival of Social Science is back in Manchester for its seventh year! Academics from The University of Manchester,...
Bluedot to host free virtual festival with live music, science and cosmic culture this weekend
A Weekend In Outer Space includes sets from Orbital, Elbow and Anna Matronic’s Deep Space Disco as well as album listening parties with Tim Burgess (including Doves and New Order). A Weekend In Outer Space will be raising money for Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, the...
DNA Day – a public festival of events celebrating and investigating genetics
In April 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson published the first paper to describe the structure of DNA. In 1993 the Human Genome project began. DNA Day is a public festival of events celebrating and investigating genetics. Marked around the world, DNA Day is a chance...
Being Human festival 2020: call for applications now open
The Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, will return Thursday 12 - Sunday 22 November 2020 with the theme ‘New Worlds’. Being Human is a national free festival geared towards public engagement with humanities research. The call for...
Manchester Science Festival 2020 – call for proposals now open
Manchester Science Festival will take place 23 October - 1 November 2020, with 23 October being dedicated to school groups from KS2 and KS3. This year’s Festival is curated around the theme of climate and it will be explored through three broad lenses of: our cities,...
Manchester Histories Festival 2020 – applications for taking part now open
Manchester Histories Festival takes place Thursday 4 June to Monday 8 June 2020. The main hub for the festival will be at Manchester Central Library but your event could take place in any other venue across Greater Manchester. Your event can be a talk, performance,...
Call for Science Stalls at Einstein¹s Garden, Green Man Festival 2019 are now open
Einstein’s Garden is Green Man’s area of science and nature. This year the festival takes place 15 – 18 August. Each year we curate a line up which fuses together performance, art, music and public engagement with research and brings science and the environment to...
Einstein’s Garden Science Stall application now open
Call for Science Stalls at Einstein's Garden, Green Man Festival are now open. Deadline for applications will be 14 April 2018. Any queries regarding the application should be directed towards will@greenman.net To apply please follow this link and scroll to the bottom...
Apply now for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition - deadline 26 September
There is just a week left to apply to be part of our 2017 Summer Science Exhibition. This is a fantastic public engagement opportunity for researchers and collaborators, at The Royal Society’s biggest public event of the year. The exhibition is a diverse celebration...
Be part of Biology Week 2016
Biology Week is an annual celebration of life science with events all over the UK and beyond for everyone from children to professional scientists. It is a great opportunity to share your passion for biology as part of the biggest week in the life sciences calendar,...
Invitation to contribute to JustFest 2016
Do you work on issues of social justice that you’d like to bring to the wider student audience? If so, you might be interested in contributing to JustFest 2016, the University of Manchester’s very own social justice festival, which takes place on March 9th, right here...
British Science Festival – September 2015 Bradford – open call
British Science Festival Open Call for proposals: In 2015, the British Science Festival programme is opening its doors to academics, organisations and individuals who want to bring cutting-edge British Science to an adult, non-specialist audience. There are no...
Pint of Science – a science festival at pubs near you!
What better way to enjoy science than with a pint in hand? Pint of Science is coming to Manchester! On the 19-21 May we will be holding 3 consecutive nights of events across the city encompassing the hottest scientific topics with world leading experts! For just £2.20...
UK’s first national festival dedicated to the humanities is announced
The AHRC is working with the School of advance study on the UK’s first national festival dedicated to demonstrating the value, vitality and relevance of humanities research called Being Human. The festival will explore what it means to be human over nine days from 15...
Pint of Science Festival 2014
Pint of Science is an international science festival taking place from the 19 - 21 May 2014. To launch the event in Manchester, we are looking for four groups of enthusiastic scientists to help manage events covering Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Physics &...
Call for proposals – British Science Festival 2014
The British Science Festival 2014 will take place in Birmingham from 6 - 11 September. Working in collaboration with our hosts, the University of Birmingham and associate partners Birmingham City Council, Aston University and Birmingham City University we are now...
Jodrell Bank Live 2013 – Science Arena
Following on from a successful pilot last year, Jodrell Bank will be hosting four festival dates this year - 6 and 7 July and 30 and 31 August. Headline bands have been announced for two of these dates and the subsequent dates will be announced will be announcing the...
Festival of Public Health 2013 (Call for abstracts close 31 May)
The Second Festival of Public Health UK will take place at the University of Manchester on 4 July 2013. Following the resounding success of the first Festival last year, the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health has announced a second Festival in 2013 and they have...
Bristol Festival of Nature: 14 – 16 June 2013 – call for exhibitors
This year's Bristol Festival of Nature will be taking place from 14 - 16 June 2013. Held annually on Bristol's Harbourside and welcoming over 10,000 visitors, the Festival of Nature is the UK's largest free celebration of all aspects of the natural world, bringing...
Manchester Day Parade – Wish you were here! 2 June 2013
Are you looking for an engagement opportunity to share your research and be involved in a large community event? Manchester Day Parade - ‘Wish you were here !’ Sunday 2 June 2013 Manchester City Council and Walk the Plank are pleased to announce that next year’s...