The Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) National Conference 2021: Sustainable Futures - 24-25 November 2021 This year, the ASDC conference will focus on opportunities to explore how science centres and museums, based in over 50 cities and regions...
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Invitation: Irene Manton Lecture 7th December 2021 (online)
We warmly invite you to attend our 2021 Irene Manton Lecture hosted by the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester and The Linnean Society of London. The Society is the world’s oldest active biological society, founded in 1788, and the...
Open Call: The Collaborative Futures Academy
Can we push the boundaries of how we engage and who we engage with? How do we break out of our comfort zones, address historic inequities and initiate challenging conversations in challenging times? ‘The Collaborative Futures Academy: Pause, Engage, Reflect!’ is an...
Make your nominations for the Northern Power Women Awards 2022!
It has been amazing to see the nominations flood in for the sixth Northern Power Women Awards, but we want more! We know there are so many amazing people, organisations and projects out there that deserve recognition and we are sure you do too. So get your...
Dell STEMAspire mentoring programme
The Dell Technologies STEM Aspire Programme is a unique 9 month mentoring programme for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students particularly, but also others who are interested in a career in technology but who might not be studying a STEM...
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust programme for Black History Month 2021
Our Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE (Race Archives and Community Engagement) Centre has created a programme of events to celebrate Black History Month. Every year we organise a programme of events, blog posts and media for Black History Month, but we also firmly believe that...
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...
Migrant Voices Musical Living Library in Longsight – 2 October 2021
The Migrant Voices ‘Living Library’ invites members of the public to meet celebrated musicians from the local community, hear their stories and musical performances, and share their own oral histories with historians from the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah (AIU) race centre. The...
Manchester Festival of Climate Action
The University of Manchester is to host a four-day programme tackling today’s biggest climate questions. Taking place two weeks before COP26, experts at the Manchester Festival of Climate Action (11-14 October 2021) will share insights and innovative solutions to the...
2022 Global Young Scientists Summit
This year’s call for participants in the 2022 Global Young Scientists Summit has now been launched. The summit will take place virtually and the University of Manchester have been invited to submit 10 participants and 10 viewers (participants are allowed to take part...
Summer Science Exhibition 2022 – call for proposals now open
We’re pleased to announce the Summer Science Exhibition 2022 call for proposals is now open. We are looking for researchers to take part in our festival celebrating the cutting-edge of UK science. Find out how to take part...
Being Human Cafés call – Being Human festival 2021
We are currently looking for humanities researchers to hold Being Human Cafés as part of this year’s Being Human festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities taking place 11-20 November. Being Human Cafés are based on the idea that you can engage with...
Free webinar: Building Study Skills & Student Engagement
The pandemic forced us into isolation, and we needed to find new ways to connect across distances and support engaged learning in the process. I am delighted to announce that the teaching innovations we developed to help overcome these challenges have been awarded the...
Raise your research profile through UoM’s Climate Questions campaign
We are looking for academics and early career researchers, keen to get involved in activities to support our Climate Questions campaign. This autumn, The University of Manchester will launch a communications campaign to showcase our role at the forefront of the...
Funding Opportunity: Public Engagement with Environmental Science
Growing Roots: Public engagement annual call. Deadline 16:00 September 10, 2021. NERC are delighted to announce the launch of our new annual funding opportunity to engage public groups with environmental science research. With this funding call NERC welcomes...
SHS Ayrton Prize for Digital Engagement (Deadline 30 July 2021)
The deadline for submissions to the British Society for the History of Science's Ayrton Prize 2021 has been extended. The new deadline is Friday 30 July 2021. This prize is awarded once every two years to recognise outstanding digital engagement in the history of...
Creative Climate Connections – Funding Opportunity
Creative Climate Connections - Arts-based public engagement with climate change Apply for funding for a new collaborative public engagement partnership, as part of the ‘creative climate connections’ opportunity. Your partnership will engage members of the public with...
Policy Engagement Workshop for early career researchers: Apply by 5 July
Voice of Young Scientists (VoYS) has a special opportunity for Early Career Researchers (ECR) in the UK to find out how to communicate evidence to policymakers. Applications are now open for our first ever online Policy Engagement workshop taking place on Friday 30...
Now Available: Video Recordings (with BSL) for the ISSF Skill Sharing Programme on Digital Engagement
In December 2020 we launched a programme of skills sharing sessions on engaging audiences digitally as part of the University of Manchester’s Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Public Engagement schemes. During these three online sessions we explored...
Covid Conversations: Faith and Vaccination – Free, online events
Covid Conversations are a series of free, public, online events led by the NHS Voices of Covid-19 team with a panel of guest speakers discussing their experiences of the topic in question. Join these us and take part in the conversation 'what should a national...
Community Festival – 18 – 20 June 2021
Our annual Community Festival returns with a series of exciting digital events… We’ve teamed up with Manchester Museum, the Whitworth, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, and staff and students from across the University to create a series of fun and exciting...
The Brilliant Club – University of Manchester PhD researcher opportunity
The Brilliant Club are recruiting PhD and post-doc researchers to deliver placements on their Scholars Programme and Brilliant Tutoring Programme. They will be running an information session for University of Manchester researchers on Tuesday 8 June at 11am. The...
Talking Maths in Public Online Conference 2021
We are very excited to announce that booking is open for the biennial maths communicators conference Talking Maths in Public (TMiP), which will be running online from 25 - 28 August 2021, virtually hosted by the ICMS in Edinburgh. The TMiP conference is for anyone...
Our annual Community Festival returns with a series of exciting digital events
We’ve teamed up with Manchester Museum, the Whitworth, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, and staff and students from across the University to create a series of fun and exciting digital events, aimed at families, schools and local communities....
Science Writing Competition – A chance for PhD students to shine
Science Writing Competition for PhD students https://info.bio-rad.com/Science-Writing-Competition.html Communicating science in an accessible and engaging way is an important skill for researchers. Bio-Rad aims to encourage and help develop this skill with our annual...