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Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications now live!
Being Human Festival returns 9–18 November, with the theme ‘Rhyme or Reason’. The call for applications is now live! About the festivalEach November, Being Human Festival presents hundreds of free events across the UK and beyond. Festival events aim to celebrate and...
Opportunities for researchers – British Science Festival 2023
We’ve got lots of opportunities for researchers to get involved in the British Science Festival 2023 which will be hosted by the University of Exeter from 7-10 September 2023. We welcome proposals from across the UK, from research that encompasses science in the...
Being Human Cafés call – Being Human festival 2022
We are currently inviting humanities researchers (including PhD candidates) to hold Being Human Cafés as part of this year’s Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities taking place 10-19 November 2022. Being Human Cafés are based on the idea...
Being Human festival: open call deadline extended to 3 July 2020
The chance to apply for funding may have passed but there is still time to get involved with Being Human festival 2020 (12-22 November)! Being Human is the UK's only national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in...
Just So Festival: Science Workshop 2017
SCIENCE WORKSHOP CALLOUT The multi-award winning Just So Festival is on the lookout for an exciting porposal for a science workshop over over 8’s. A weekend camping event for families in Cheshire (a short 45 mins from Manchester) on the 18th, 19th & 20th of August...
Public engagement opportunities for engineers & astronomy/astrophysics researchers
In 2017, Cheltenham Science Festival will be creating our first onsite makespace, the MakerShack, which will bring engineers, scientists, and makers together to inspire the public to explore the material world and discover the joy of making. We are looking for...
ESRC Festival of Social Science – UOM highights
The ESRC Festival of Social Science starts this weekend. Not sure what to attend? Here's a handy list of highlights featuring researchers and academics from The University of Manchester. (With thanks to Carly Chadwick for compiling.) Getting to know Chinese Buddhism –...
Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science 5-12 November 2016
A reminder that the Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science will be running this weekend (5-12 November) in partnership with the Universities of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan. Events will feature research from across the Faculty of Humanities....
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...
New Scientist Live – the UK’s biggest festival of ideas and discovery, launches this September
For four days this September (22-25), New Scientist Live will be like nowhere else on Earth. The inaugural New Scientist Live event, courtesy of the team behind the world’s most popular science weekly, is a four-day festival of ideas and discovery taking place at...
The Brain Box – 19 June 2016, Manchester Day
On Manchester Day (19 June, the very day of the famous annual parade) a major science extravangaza called The Brain Box will take place in the Town Hall right in the centre of Manchester. The Brain Box will be a unique event involving scientists, clinicians, creative...
Documentary Festival Opportunity…
DOC/FEST RESEARCHER PROGRAMME Do you love documentary? Are you a postdoctoral scientist? Sheffield Doc/Fest is offering five researchers the opportunity to attend this year's Festival. Network with filmmakers and broadcast commissioners, and see some of the world’s...
Your chance to shape Manchester Histories Festival 2016
Manchester Histories Festival 2016 is on the way and will be taking place from Friday 3 - Sunday 12 June across Greater Manchester, and we're organising a planning meeting on Tuesday 10 November to discuss how you can take part in the festival. We'll cover planning...
Unusual festivals for engaging the public in your research
Our next Engagement@Manchester lunchtime meeting exploring issues of public engagement is on Wednesday 18 March, 1-2pm at Manchester Museum. Unusual festivals for engaging the public in your research This session will explore some of the more unusual festival events...
Call for Proposals: Science Stalls for Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man Festival 2015
The Green Man Festival is held near the Black Mountains in Wales and attracts 20,000 festival goers. The festival has earned a reputation as one of the great independent festivals in the UK. In 2010 Green Man won ‘Best Medium Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards and in...
SICK! Festival – unique arts and health festival in Manchester, 2 – 25 March 2015
SICK! Festival is the first festival in the UK dedicated to revealing and debating our most urgent physical, mental and social challenges – and is expanding in 2015 into venues across Manchester, from 2 - 25 March 2015. SICK! Festival was launched in 2013 as the first...
Present your research at the British Science Festival 2015
The British Science Association is pleased to announce that the nominations for the annual Award Lectures and the Call for Proposals for the British Science Festival 2015 are now open. Open Call for Proposals – Deadline: 23 March 2015 To find out more about our open...
AHRC call for researchers to present their research at engaging public events (closes 1 Dec)
To mark its tenth anniversary in 2015, the AHRC is looking to extend its partnership with Cheltenham Festivals by inviting applications from researchers to present their research at one of a series of six engaging public events at the Cheltenham Jazz and Music...
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 – call for proposals
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 call for proposals – deadline 22 September. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your research at the UK’s most prestigious summer science exhibition. The call for proposals for the 2015 Exhibition is now open. Each...
May half term – science activities for the whole family
Don't let the kids get bored over the half-term holidays – there are plenty of family-friendly activities to suit teenagers and youngsters alike as part of the Bollington Festival. In this 50th year of the Bollington Festival there are a series of science events over...
2014 ESRC Festival of Social Science – call for applications & funding
Call for applications to hold events as part of the 2014 ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open. This year the Festival will run from 1-8 November, 2014 across the UK. You are able to apply for up to £2,000 sponsorship from the ESRC to hold an event, or apply to...
Manchester Histories Festival – event submission deadline extended
We have decided to extend the events’ deadline for the submission of events for the next Manchester Histories Festival 2014 until Friday 29 November 2013. A number of organisations are struggling to meet the date in October so we have extended it whilst still allowing...
FutureEverything Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention, 21-24 March 2013, Manchester
FutureEverything is about innovation in all forms - research, digital media, contemporary arts and music. In March 2013, FutureEverything comes to Manchester to presents the Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention, a one-off event that has been designed to showcase a...