BIG (British Interactive Group) is thrilled to announce that the Little Event returns to Thinktank in Birmingham on Wednesday 8 January 2014. It’s for people who are relatively new to STEM communication, whether they work in a science centre or museum, volunteer for a...
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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 &...
Opportunities to work at our cultural venues: Paid positions for PhD students
Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery and John Rylands Library are looking to recruit first or second year PhD students to deliver educational sessions for their respective secondary and post-16 programmes. The aim is to utilise PhD student's expert knowledge to...
Great British Bioscience Festival – call for exhibits
In 2014 BBSRC will be marking 20 years of pioneering Great British Bioscience. To mark this important anniversary, we are staging a platform to highlight world-leading bioscience at its best: the "Great British Bioscience Festival". This is part of a wider year-long...
Public engagement grant: Engaging in Engineering
Engineering Professors' Council 20th Anniversary Awards Engaging in Engineering Closing date: 18:00, 3 February, 2014 At the Engineering Professors’ Council Congress 2013, one of the major messages from all the key stakeholders and speakers – senior politicians,...
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...
Engagement@Manchester – Citizen Science and Participatory Projects – 20 November, 1-2pm
Engagement@Manchester is a series of lunchtime meetings exploring different aspects of public engagement. All University staff and students are welcome to attend these free events. No registration required – just pop along. The next meeting will focus on Citizen...
Free training and funding opportunity – take your research to a secondary school
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a secondary school in Greater Manchester? Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in bringing your research into the classroom? Then the School-University...
Public engagement workshop for researchers – 9 December 2013, London
How does your research impact on society? How can social media engage the public? How can you communicate your work better? The British Science Association invites you to a one-day training workshop that will develop your public engagement skills and your...
Images of Research Competition 2013 and the winners are…
The votes have been tallied and the judges scores have now been confirmed. We can now announce the winning entries for the Images of Research Competition 2013: Overall winner by Public vote Small loans, big dreams: fighting poverty, one loan at a time – Asad Ghalib...
Outreach Opportunity: School-University Partnerships Initiative (SUPI) – Training & Networking Events
Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in bringing cutting edge research into the classroom? Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with secondary schools across Greater Manchester? Then the School-University...
3 days until Science Spectacular – A Family Fun Day at The University of Manchester
As part of the Manchester Science Festival, The University of Manchester is playing host to a Science Spectacular! Come along on Saturday 2 November 2013, 11am – 4pm, Whitworth Hall & Manchester Museum, Oxford Road. (Free, drop in event) Meet the scientists and...
One minute wonder! M-cubed (Manchester Minute Microlectures)
2pm and 3pm, Saturday 2 November, Discovery Centre (near reception) in the Manchester Museum Want to know what scientific research is happening at the University and meet the scientists behind the work? Find out more this Saturday at the next M-cubed event (Manchester...
IOP Public Lecture – Graphene: Materials in the Flatland: Why all the fuss? What’s the matter?
Invitation to a public Lecture given by Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov, Hon FInstP, Joint 2010 Nobel prize-winner “for ground-breaking experiments regarding the material graphene. Graphene: Materials in the Flatland: Why all the fuss? What’s the matter? Date:...
Barometer Podcast – live podcast – 29 October
The Manchester Science Festival runs from 24 October - 3 November this year and the Barometer Podcast team are doing a live recording at 7pm (doors open 6.30pm) on Tuesday 29 October at Manchester Museum. We'll be discussing air pollution with a mixture of...
Entries are now open for FameLab 2014
Passionate about Science? Engineering? Technology? Mathematics? Then FameLab needs you! Entries for the 2013-2014 FameLab UK competition are now open. If you think you can explain a concept in science, mathematics or engineering in just 3 minutes using only the props...
Afterlife of Heritage Research – Showcase Event
Tuesday 29 October, 9.30am - 4.30pm Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum The ‘Afterlife of Heritage Research’ Skills Training Programme (2012-13; funded by the AHRC and led by the Institute for Cultural Practices; http://heritageafterlife.wordpress.com/about/) aimed to...
Chroma: Art meets Science – 26 October
Saturday 26 Oct 2013 3.30pm - 5.30pm, Chemistry Building, The University of Manchester In Memory of ‘Chroma’ is a science-arts collaboration that responds to Derek Jarman’s haunting book, Chroma: A Book of Colour – June 93, written a year before the author’s death. Dr...
SET for BRITAIN Poster Competition 2014 – now open
Take your research to Parliament! Applications are invited from early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians who wish to exhibit at the SET for BRITAIN poster competition. SET for BRITAIN Awards are made on the basis of...
Our researchers in action at The Manchester Science Festival – 24 Oct – 3 Nov 2013
Did you know that our researchers and academics are involved in a wide range of events and activities taking place during the Manchester Science Festival? Here are some of our festival top picks where you can see them in action… Snowballs in Space: the science of...
Call for Applications: School-University Partnerships Initiative Training & Funding Opportunity
Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in bringing cutting edge research into the classroom? Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with secondary schools across Greater Manchester? Then the School-University...
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...
Engagement@Manchester – next event on 16 October 2013 …
Are you interested in public engagement? Do you want to meet other like-minded people at the University? Would you like to hear some inspiring ideas? Our monthly lunchtime meetings exploring aspects of public engagement are back. All University students and staff are...
Now Open for Your Vote – Images of Research Competition: The Big Picture
Wishing trees, the inside of a living chrysalis, and the ravages of weather all feature in this year’s Images of Research competition at The University of Manchester. The images provide a behind the scenes look at the work being carried out by researchers both on...
School-University Partnership Networking Event – Wednesday 20 November
Wednesday 20 November, 4pm- 6:30pm, The University of Manchester AIMS: An opportunity for researchers to meet with teachers interested in fostering links, and running collaborative research-led activities for secondary school and college students. The...