Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition – The UoM Final Monday 23 March, 16:00 – 18:00, Alan Turing Building G.107 What is 3MT? The Three Minute Thesis ®(3MT) competition challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation of their research topic...
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#ShareMyThesis competition (Closing date: 9 February 2015, 10.00am)
The #ShareMyThesis competition challenges PhD students past and present to summarise why your PhD research is important in 140 characters or less. Are you currently studying for or have you completed a PhD degree? Do you want to tell the world why your research is...
Call for Entries for the world’s best scientific and engineering images
The Royal Photographic Society has launched a Call for Entries for the world’s best scientific and engineering images. Open to scientists, students and the public, one hundred images will be selected by a jury of scientists, photographers and experts, to form a...
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is coming to Manchester
Think you can reduce your 80,000 word thesis into less than 180 seconds? About Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland. The exercise challenges YOU to present a compelling oration on your thesis...
Your invite to the Famelab Manchester Final – 8 Dec 2014, MOSI
Famelab - Monday 8 December 2014, 18:30 - 21:30, Museum of Science and Industry Witness the region's finest science communicators as they battle it out to win a place in the FameLab national final. Armed only with their wits and a few props, our challengers will...
Access to Understanding Science – writing competition 2015
Are you a biomedical scientist who acknowledges the importance of accessible scientific research? Are you confident explaining complicated scientific terms and concepts in plain English? If you are, then enter our Access to Understanding Science competition to explain...
Take 1… minute for chemistry in health
Can you explain the importance of chemistry to human health in just 1 minute? If you’re up to the challenge, you could win £500 in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s video competition. Take 1... minute for chemistry in health, now in its second year, is a competition...
cities@manchester animated urbanism competition – winners
Our recent Animated Urbanism competition offered University of Manchester researchers, keen to disseminate their work to wider audiences, the opportunity to turn their findings into a short animation made by Toasted Productions. We received a high volume of quality...
FameLab – the science communications competition
FameLab is back! Calling all scientists and engineers with a passion for public engagement. FameLab is inviting scientists, mathematicians and engineers, both in academia and industry, across the UK to take part in its flagship science communications competition....
The Imitation Game’ Cryptography Competition: opens from now until Nov 28 2014
In November, `The Imitation Game' - a film about the life of Alan Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role - opens in cinemas. StudioCanal (the film's distributors) and the School of Mathematics are running a one-off cryptography competition to tie in...
Chemistry World science communication competition
Chemistry World's annual science communication competition returns and is now open for entries. Our topic this year: chemistry and art! See http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/10/chemistry-world-competition-science-communication The competition offers a fantastic...
Call for applications for I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here! (November)
I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here! is an award-winning online event allowing students (from 9 – 18) to interact with real live scientists. You can now apply to take part in the next event, running 10 – 21 November 2014. How does it work? Students challenge the...
Research Image competitions
Looking to share the wonder of your research with the wider world? Here are two image competitions that might be of interest: BBSRC Images with Impact www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/people-skills-training/2014/140625-pr-images-with-impact.aspx "Images with Impact: the Great...
#micropoem14 Competition – 7 – 14 July 2014 inclusive
Poetry in 140 characters? What would Brontë have made of tweet poems? "'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight" - Emily Jane Brontë Following the success of last year's micro-poetry competition, the Centre for New Writing and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are...
Intersections of Art and Engineering – Engineers, Artists, Designers, Innovators Competition
2014 Art & Engineering Challenge $40,000 in Awards For this challenge we are asking individuals to have a broad interpretation of the theme of art and engineering. We want to showcase how the combination of engineering and art touches every aspect of our lives....
cities@manchester – Instagram photography competition
Are you affected by recent cuts in public services? Are they worsening your standard of living or the quality of your life? Or have you found new ways of taking control of things in your community to make things better? Can you convey what these recent changes mean to...
Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 Now Open
The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014, in association with the Guardian and the Observer, is now open. The Prize offers an amazing opportunity for anyone with an interest in science to join a new generation of science writers. Submit your 800-word article by...
Biochemical Society Science Communication Competition
Each year the Biochemical Society looks for talented science writers to take part in our annual Science Communication Competition. The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates, including non-members. What do I have to do? To enter you need to submit...
Our early-career researchers present their work in Parliament
The final of the 2014 SET for BRITAIN event is set to take place during National Science and Engineering Week. And on Monday 17 March 2014, six early career researchers from The University of Manchester will take their research to Parliament: David Jimenez Cruz...
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...
Poetry Competition for Scientists and Engineers
The third EPS poetry competition is still open. Just 2 weeks to go; closing date 1700 hrs 28 March 2014... Look at the submissions so far at www.epspoetry.com/start. If you're not in it you can't win it. Prizes: First Prize £500 & 2 Runner up prizes of £200, the...
FameLab Manchester Finals – 14 February 2014, 6pm, MOSI
How do 3D glasses work? Why do men have nipples? Why is wearing red an advantage in sport? Is nuclear energy good or bad? How do cabbages keep warm in winter? These are some of the things you could learn at the Manchester Final of FameLab, the UK’s biggest competition...
Biochemical Society Science Communication Competition 2014
Each year the Biochemical Society looks for talented science writers to take part in our annual Science Communication Competition. The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates, including non-members. What do I have to do? To enter you need to submit...
Engage 2014 Competition
The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) are running a national competition to find and celebrate high quality public engagement with research projects. The overall winner will be offered £2,500 to develop or share their engagement work with...
Visualising Research – bringing public data to life
A competition for designers, graphic artists, software developers, programmers and anyone with an interest in data visualisation. Aligned with the British Library’s Beautiful Science exhibition, February – May 2014. The challenge Bringing public data to life - Can you...