Are you passionate about science, writing and science communication? The 2015 –16 Chemistry World science communication competition offers a fantastic opportunity to be published in Chemistry World, and demonstrate your communication skills in a ten-minute...
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Interested in FameLab UK? Try a free taster and training session, 26 Jan 2016, Manchester
The search is on for the new voices of science communication! The Museum of Science and Industry is hosting heats of FameLab, the UK’s biggest competition to discover new talent to engage the public in science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM). Do you think...
Early-career STEM communicators: The Little Event 2016
The Little Event 2016 Wednesday 13 January 2016, 9.30am - 4.30pm, Thinktank, Birmingham This one-day conference is for early-career STEM communicators who are keen to suck the knowledge and experience out of those who have been at it for ages. It is also an excellent...
Networking Engagement Session: European City of Science
Wednesday 7 October 2015 11:30 - 13:00, Roscoe Building room 1.010 Thinking of running an event as part of the European City of Science 2016? Do you have an idea for an event that you would like to share or develop? Manchester is the 2016 City of Sciences and host of...
Could you inspire the next generation of science communicators?
Do you want to help inspire the next generation of scientists and science communicators? Here at the Manchester Branch of the British Science Association we recognise that the public gain most of their understanding of scientific advancement through news reports; and...
Come play with nuclear science, 1-2pm, 23 June, Roscoe Building, room 3.2
This Tuesday our Next Generation Nuclear CDT + Sellafield grant students will be demonstrating interactive table top science activities, for their outreach event at MOSI in September. If you happen to be in or around or the Roscoe Building (room 3.2), Brunswick...
Mancunian ‘science show offs’ needed!
CALLING ALL ‘ SCIENCE SHOWOFFS’! Science Show off is coming to MOSI on Wednesday 17 June 2015 and they still need volunteer ‘show offs’! This is a chaotic open mic night for scientists, science communicators, science teachers, historians and philosophers of science,...
Science and Poetry – call for scientists
At this year’s Manchester Science Festival, there will be a Science Slam, in which scientists and poets will work together to create science poetry and then perform it at an evening of celebration. The event itself will be on Thursday 22 October 2015 from 19:30 in the...
ESOF 2016 – call for proposals
EuroScience seeks scientific programme ideas for Manchester 2016 Representatives from the ESOF host city of Manchester and EuroScience – a grassroots association which acts on behalf of Europe’s scientific community – are calling for session proposals to populate the...
Bright Club Manchester – looking for academics & PhD students for stand up comedy
Bright Club Manchester, the thinking person's variety club, is currently looking for researchers, PhD students, and other experts in their field to try their hand at a short stand-up comedy set. Why? Because it’s fun, interesting and a genuinely useful way to...
Pint of Science is coming to Manchester
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t found a cure for CANCER or ALZHEIMERS? Whether NUCLEAR power is a better form of energy than SOLAR power? Why our WEATHER FORECASTS go bad? Or even how schools support children with DYSLEXIA? All of these questions and more are...
British Science Festival – September 2015 Bradford – open call
British Science Festival Open Call for proposals: In 2015, the British Science Festival programme is opening its doors to academics, organisations and individuals who want to bring cutting-edge British Science to an adult, non-specialist audience. There are no...
AN 80,000 WORD THESIS WOULD TAKE 9 HOURS TO PRESENT. THEIR TIME LIMIT… 3 MINUTES!
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...
Applications are now open for the Josh Award 2015
The Josh Award is an award established to recognise and support up-and-coming talent in science communication, nurture development in the field (with the support of BIG - the skills sharing network for people involved in the communication of STEM) and support the...
Nominations open for Royal Society Faraday Prize
The Royal Society’s medals, awards and prize lectureships provide an opportunity to celebrate outstanding achievement. Nominations for the Michael Faraday Prize are now open. This prize lecture is given by a scientist or engineer whose expertise in communicating...
Present your research at the British Science Festival 2015
The British Science Association is pleased to announce that the nominations for the annual Award Lectures and the Call for Proposals for the British Science Festival 2015 are now open. Open Call for Proposals – Deadline: 23 March 2015 To find out more about our open...
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...
Early-career STEM Communicator – training opportunity from BIG
Are you an early-career Science Communicator? Want to suck the knowledge and experience out of those who have been at it for ages? Thanks to generous support from Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum, The Little Event will take place again on Thursday 15 January 2015,...
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...
Do stand-up about your research!
Manchester Bright wants you! See: brightclubmcr.org.uk
Museum of Science and Industry’s Graphene Programme Needs You
The Museum of Science and Industry is developing a learning programme of events and activities based on graphene, ahead of National Graphene Week in 2015 and the opening of our Graphene Exhibition in 2016. Would you like to be involved? Whether you work with graphene,...
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...
Want to get into public engagement? (Free training event 3 October)
Manchester Girl Geeks and ScienceGrrl, who both run workshops and events to engage people with science, are looking for early career researchers to join our team of speakers. We are running a free half-day training event, with training from Jon Wood...
Pint Of Science 2015 needs YOU!
Pint of Science is a 3 day festival, running across four pubs in the Manchester area with four different themes. Pint of Science is already fully established across both the UK and worldwide, including USA, Australia and France. Choices of themes this year include:...
Become a UoM Science Busker – call for postgrads and undergrads
The University of Manchester is recruiting Science Buskers to support events taking place during this year’s Manchester Science Festival (MSF). We’re holding an information and training session to help you decide… The University is taking part in the Manchester...