The call for session proposals for the BIG Event 19 - 21 July 2017 at the Centre for Life, Newcastle is now open. http://www.bigevent.info Every year, STEM engagement professionals get together for a three-day bash to exchange ideas, compare disasters, find their next...
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Soapbox Science 2017 – call for speakers now open
Are you a woman in science? Want to share your passion for your work with the public? Why not apply to become one of our 2017 Soapbox Science speakers? We have 17 events going on next year, in the UK, Canada, Australia, Italy, Ireland and Germany. Our speakers are PhD...
Famelab 2017 – call for scientists and engineers
Calling all scientists and engineers with a passion for public engagement to participate in FameLab 2017! FameLab is inviting scientists, mathematicians and engineers across the globe to take part in its flagship science communications competition. Contestants have...
Little Event 2017 – Programme and speakers confirmed
This is BIG’s one-day training session for people who are relatively new to STEM communication. The day is crammed with sessions focusing on developing the different skills that are useful in face-to-face STEM communication; they are delivered by experienced science...
Bright Club Manchester – returns Friday 9 Dec 2016
We’ll be back at the Kings Arms for our climactic end-of-year show. Join the thinking person's variety club for an evening of laughs as our researchers look towards the end of the year with anticipation and perhaps dread! Your compere Chris Kehoe will introduce a...
Storm in a Teacup – An Evening with Helen Czerski
Waterstones Deansgate is delighted to be joined by physicist and rising BBC star Dr Helen Czerski to discuss how familiar, everyday objects can help us to understand the complex physical principles that govern our world. Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester, 23 November...
Pint of Science 2017 – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Pint Of Science 2017 needs YOU! Pint of Science is a 3-day festival, running across 6 pubs in the Manchester area with six different themes. Pint of Science is already fully established across both the UK and worldwide, including USA, Australia and France and over 20...
Become a University of Manchester Science Busker
University of Manchester Postgraduates and Undergraduates - if you love science and engaging with the public then we want to hear from you! The University of Manchester is recruiting Science Buskers to support events taking place during this year’s Manchester Science...
Engineer? We Need You! – Science Showoff is coming to the North West
The team behind Science Showoff is about to travel across the UK, helping to make engineers funny and give them a chance to share their work with new audiences in a humourous way. Engineering Showoff is here! Are you an engineer? In the private or public sector? Or a...
Plethora of Manchester researchers to appear at Bluedot Festival
The University's Jodrell Bank Observatory aiming to embed science as a normal part of our culture. The festival invites you to camp out under the stars and to explore a stellar programme of music, science, arts, technology, culture, food and film. Bluedot’s mission is...
Pint of Science & ScienceGrrl – Women in Healthcare Tech edition
If you haven't yet been to a Pint of Science event yet, then here is your chance to do so. As part of the ESOF, Pint of Science are hosting a Women in Healthcare Tech edition! When and where? Tuesday 26 July 2016, Doors 7pm, Event 7:30pm to 10pm, The Hive, Lever...
London SciComm Socials – Career Development Session
The feedback from our recent symposium highlighted how useful it was to meet people who worked across a range of science communication and public engagement careers, and have the chance to ask them questions about what it's like to do those jobs, and how they ended up...
Community Open Day 2016 – all welcome
Come and join us for our 6th annual Community Open Day. It's fun for everyone! Saturday, 7 May 2016 : 10am - 2pm, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT. (Building 71 on the Campus Map.) What's there to see and do? Live...
Spring round up – STEM public engagement funding and award schemes
Here's a quick round up of some of the funding calls currently open to support your public engagement activities: STFC Public Engagement Small Awards Scheme (Deadline 28 April 2016) Provides funds for small, local or 'pilot' projects promoting STFC science and...
Events for Science Communicators (from the British Science Association)
In 2016, the British Science Association are running a range of exciting events supporting science communicators around the country. These events are for people from all sub-sectors and backgrounds, but we do target some of our events to particular groups and...
Pint of Science – featuring former NASA astronaut Mike Foale
Pint of Science is returning with a special event NEXT WEEK featuring former NASA astronaut Mike Foale ahead of our festival next month. Tickets are £15 or £9 for students. For more information, please check out our website:...
Enter the Science Writers’ Awards for Britain and Ireland 2016
Are you a scientist and write for the media or produce your own blog? Do your students produce a science publication or a blog? Then you or your students could enter ABSW Science Writers' Awards for Britain and Ireland. The awards, supported by Janssen Research and...
Standing Up For Science Media Workshop – 8 April, Manchester
Sense About Science will be holding a Standing up for Science media workshop at the University of Manchester on Friday 8 April 2016. This full day event is free and for early career researchers and scientists in all sciences, engineering and medicine (PhD students,...
Support our researchers at the Famelab North England Regional Heat – 15 February
Famelab – Monday 15 February 2016, 19:30, Museum of Science and Industry (doors open from 18:00) Witness the region’s finest science communicators as they battle it out to win a place in the FameLab national final. Contestants will have just three minutes to pitch a...
Final few places available for Famelab UK Manchester Heat – 2 February 2016
Scientists and engineers share your enthusiasm for your subject with others. The search is on for the new voices of science communication! Do you think you can intrigue, entertain and explain a scientific idea or concept to a lay audience in just three minutes? Then...
Speakezee Presents… Manchester: How the Nose Knows
Thursday 18 February 2016, 19:00 to 21:00, No 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH GB Join us for the launch of Speakezee Manchester. Speakezee evenings showcase a variety of topics, formats and presenters from graduate students delivering their PhD thesis against the...
Engagement@Manchester – 2 March 2016 – One Step Beyond: Crossing the Barriers to Engagement
Join us at out next engagement@manchester session, with special guest, award winning science presenter - Dr Sarah Bearchell. Topic: One Step Beyond: Crossing the Barriers to Engagement When and Where: 2 March 2016, 1 – 2:30pm, Roscoe Building, room 1.009 (Brunswick...
Call for Session Proposals BIG Event 2016 – OPEN
The call for session proposals for the BIG Event - 20 July 2016 at W5 in Belfast is now open. If you are a science communicator, a STEM engagement person, or someone who thinks communicating science to all sorts of publics is a skill you should hone. You might like...
Soapbox Science – call for speakers now open!
Soapbox Science, a national Women in Science event is coming to Manchester for the first time in 2016 as part of European City of Science. We want to place 12 inspirational speakers on soapboxes on Saturday 23 July, and encourage them to engage in and start...
Call for applications for I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here! (March 2016)
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 Monday 7 to Friday 18 March 2016. How does it work? Students...