The University has an excellent record of collaborations and partnerships between the sciences and the arts. This has included teaching between arts, humanities and science students, research projects between colleagues or with outside organisations and large-scale...
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The Big Bang Fair 2015 – Call for activities OPEN
Applications to run an activity at The Big Bang Fair 2015 at the NEC, Birmingham from 11 - 14 March 2015 are now being accepted! If your organisation would like to participate as an activity provider in The Big Bang Fair 2015, please submit an application via...
Call for Science Spectacular 2014 (part of Manchester Science Festival)
This year will see the eighth Manchester Science Festival taking place from Thursday 23 October – Sunday 2 November 2014. With over 100,000 people attending last year’s event, this has become one of the UKs most popular science festivals. The University of Manchester...
Science Learning+: exploring the impact of informal science learning
Science Learning+ supports research to explore and understand the power of informal learning experiences inside and outside of school. Learning can happen anywhere and at any time. Science Learning+ aims to make a transformational step to improve the knowledge base...
INSPIRE special project fund open for applications – Open to UK medical and dental schools
Have you got a creative way to engage medical and dental students with the potential, power and importance of research? Could you build a partnership to have major impact? Perhaps you have trialled something that is ready to be scaled up and rolled out? A total of...
INVOLVE conference call for presentations: deadline 4 April
The ninth biennial INVOLVE conference will take place on 26 and 27 November at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham. The conference will bring together people with a common interest in public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research....
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...
Engage 2014 Competition
Are you involved in public engagement with research? Have you been involved in a great project that you want to share? Why not enter the Engage 2014 Competition. The NCCPE are running this national competition to find and celebrate high quality public engagement with...
Science and Society Community Challenge Grant Scheme
Calling scientists, science communicators, artists, educators, film makers; games developers; businesses; civil society organisations; community groups, youth clubs… The BIS Science and Society team have launched a new Community Challenge Grant Scheme to encourage...
Science Stalls for Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man Festival 2014
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...
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...
National Science and Engineering Week 2014: We need you!
A reminder that the deadline for your involvement with National Science and Engineering Week 2014 is fast approaching! If you would like more information on how you can get involved, please read on… I’m really grateful to the many academic colleagues, researchers and...
British Council France and Science in Schools – call for outreach proposals
The British Council in France manages the ‘Science in Schools’ programme, which involves UK-based researchers visiting French schools to deliver interactive, engaging and hands-on science workshops in English. We are looking for people/teams to run new workshops in...
Universities Week 2014 – call for public engagement activities
The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) are pleased to be one of the partners of Universities Week 2014. Universities Week 2014 is inviting universities across the UK to engage with the public. Ideas for Life, will encourage people to find out...
A workshop on Understanding Participation
How do you analyse participation by individuals, communities or the public in your area of study? What criteria do you use to evaluate participation? What theories or models does your discipline use? The Understanding Participation workshop, taking place Friday 21...
2014 Science Communication Conference – call for proposals
The call for proposals for the 2014 Science Communication Conference is now open. The British Science Association, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, are keen to hear your ideas for sessions for this conference, which will take place at the University of Surrey...
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...
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...
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...
STFC Public Engagement Symposium, University of Birmingham, 25 Nov 2013
STFC invites all those interested in public engagement (PE) with STFC science and technology to this free one day Public Engagement Symposium, being held on the University of Birmingham campus on 25 November 2013. Online registration is now open here. The main aims of...
Poster Call for NCCPE Engage 2013
This year, at the annual Engage conference NCCPE are planning to hold a poster session event to stimulate conversation and networking. The Engage conference will take place on the 27 & 28 November in Bristol, with the poster session planned for the afternoon of...
Manchester Histories Festival 2014 – Call for proposals
Manchester Histories invites all disciplines to submit activities and events for the next Manchester Histories Festival (21 – 30 March 2014). For further details, please visit the website at: Manchester Histories Festival: Get involved The deadline for events to be...
Sciencewise proposals – innovative thinking on public dialogue in policy-making involving science and technology
As part of our commitment to transparency and openness Sciencewise is opening up its thinking to outside influence. We are looking for proposals from individuals, organisations, researchers and practitioners from all sectors for new, innovative work which they could...
Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition – call for proposals
The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition is a unique opportunity to showcase your research at the UK’s most prestigious science exhibition. Each year over 10,000 members of the public and 2,000 school students visit the Summer Science Exhibition. Many more are...