An opportunity for Early Career Researchers & Academics to get involved in a local primary outreach This week saw the launch of the Great Science Share Clean Air Challenge - a new project developed by SEERIH and The Royal Society that will involve 25 Greater...
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Widening Participation Fellow Recruitment 2021/22
Paid fellowships to develop and deliver a range of activities to inspire and engage school and college students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. We aim to widen participation to higher education from low participation groups by showcasing university as a...
The Brilliant Club – Paid tutoring opportunities for PhD researchers – 2021-22
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They work closely with PhD and post-doctoral researchers, training them as university access professionals and placing them as tutors in schools. Here they deliver academically rigorous programmes to...
STEM Ambassadors – the why, what and who of STEM engagement
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers with experience in a wide range of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs and disciplines from across the UK. With more than 250 University of Manchester staff and student STEM Ambassadors, logging more than 4,000...
Air Today, Gone Tomorrow
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, taking place from 2-9 November, the Air Today, Gone Tomorrow project provided an opportunity for researchers from The University of Manchester and pupils from Medlock Primary School in Brunswick to work together on a...
The Scholars Programme – PhD tutor opportunity – 2019-20
The Scholars Programme is run by The Brilliant Club, an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of university-style teaching to pupils in schools that serve under-represented...
Widening Participation Fellow Recruitment 2019
Are you passionate about your subject area? Would you like the opportunity to work with local school children? Then the Widening Participation Fellow programme might be for you! The Student Recruitment and Widening Participation Team is recruiting non-final year PhD...
Volunteers required for a school outreach event
As part of an ongoing collaboration between the University of Manchester and schools in Lancashire, the Manchester Fly Facility have been asked to run an extracurricular day of fly workshops for school pupils on Thur 4th July at Scarisbrickhall School in Ormskirk. The...
Calling all scientists and engineers – competition now open for applications
The next I'm a Scientist and I'm an Engineer online STEM engagement events are running 10-21 June, supported by Wellcome Trust, the STFC, and the British Psychological Society. The application deadline is currently Tuesday 23rd April. Engage school students from your...
Registration for the 2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition and MathsBombe is now open!
The 2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition is now in its 7th year! It’s an online competition run by the University's School of Mathematics. Every one to two weeks a new chapter of the story is released and there are six chapters in total. Each chapter has a new...
Brilliant Club tutor opportunity (open to PhDs and Postdocs)
Are you a PhD student or Postdoc looking for meaningful, paid teaching experience? Through working as a tutor with The Brilliant Club, you will: Develop teaching experience and other employability skills Receive high-quality training in teaching pedagogy Enhance your...
SUPI: Engaging with Schools Training for Researchers
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a local school? Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in taking your research into the classroom? Want to develop your outreach skills? Then this free public...
Online STEM engagement competitions – I’m a Scientist and I’m an Engineer – back for November
What are I'm a Scientist and I'm an Engineer? Online events where school students get to meet and interact with scientists/engineers. It’s an X Factor-style competition between scientists/engineers, where the students are the judges. Students challenge the...
Widening Participation Fellowships – Info session and Call for PhDs out now
Paid fellowships to develop and deliver a range of activities to inspire and engage schools and college students from across Greater Manchester. We aim to widen participation to higher education to low participation groups by showcasing university as real opportunity...
10 scientists for 10 minutes on the Great Science Share for Schools
The Great Science Share for Schools campaign is growing with pace…we are so pleased that 20 satellite events and 130 schools will be taking place on 19th June 2018. This will mean we surpass last year by far with 22,500 children already targeted to be engaged across...
Call for Scientists – I’m A Scientist & I’m and Engineer Get Me Out of Here (June 2018 round)
A quick reminder that the next I'm a Scientist and I'm an Engineer online events are running 11-22 June. Applications are due by Monday 30 April. I'm a Scientist and I'm an Engineer are online events where school students meet and interact with scientists. It’s an X...
School engagement opportunity – call for PhD researchers
I work as a science teacher at Cheadle Hulme High School, where we are running a program with some of our pupils called the '3 Minute Thesis Competition'. It's something we completed for the first time last year, and it was so successful we would like to run it again,...
INVITE – SUPI Networking Event 2017
School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) Networking Event Are you a researcher interested in engaging with local schools? Want to share your passion for research and your subject area with teachers and students? Want to develop your public engagement and...
Call for Scientists and Engineers – Take part I’m a Scientist & Engineer competitions (apply by 2 Oct
Do schools outreach from your desk in I’m a Scientist and I’m an Engineer! I'm a Scientist and I’m an Engineer are online STEM outreach competitions that get scientists and engineers talking about their work with school students across the UK. You are invited to apply...
SUPI: Engaging with Schools Training for Researchers
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a local school? Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in taking your research into the classroom? Want to develop your outreach skills? Then this free public...
Become a Manchester Museum PhD Demonstrator – educational sessions for secondary school students
Manchester Museum is looking to recruit PhD students to deliver educational sessions for their Secondary (11-16 year olds) and Post-16 (16-18 year olds) programmes. This will be a paid position for the delivery of education sessions (which includes set-up and...