Get involved in the next University-wide Community Festival, Saturday 27 June 2020 As part of our commitment to enhancing our relationships with members of our local community, we will be holding our annual University-wide Community Festival on Saturday, 27 June 2020...
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Registration now open for the 2020 Alan Turing Cryptography and Mathsbombe Competitions!
Alan Turing Cryptography Competition Now in its ninth year, the online competition is open to secondary school children up to Year 11 (England and Wales), S4 (Scotland) and Year 12 (Northern Ireland). Run by the Department of Mathematics at The University of...
Call out for Science Fiction: Late – 18 March 2020, Science and Industry Museum
The Science and Industry Museum are looking for individuals and groups working on projects inspired by science fiction to support the delivery of their next Late on Wednesday 18 March 2020, which is going to look at how science fiction has predicted developments in...
STEM for Britain – Annual poster competition for early career researchers (closes 2 Dec 2019)
Calling all early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians - take your research to Westminster! STEM for Britain 2020 will take place in the Houses of Parliament on Monday 9 March during British Science Week. Posters can be entered in...
STEM Ambassador Information session – 11 December, 12-1pm, on campus
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers from a wide range of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related jobs across the UK. They offer their time and enthusiasm to help bring STEM subjects to life and demonstrate the value of them in life and careers....
British Science Festival – Award Lecture nominations
Are you, or do you know, a promising early career researcher? Nominations are now open for seven Award Lectureships available to promising early career academics, skilled at engaging people with their research. The Award Lectures are an opportunity for open and...
Air Today, Gone Tomorrow
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, taking place from 2-9 November, the Air Today, Gone Tomorrow project provided an opportunity for researchers from The University of Manchester and pupils from Medlock Primary School in Brunswick to work together on a...
The University of Manchester Public Engagement Champions Network 2019/20
Passionate about public engagement with experience of coordinating public engagement activities and enabling others? Then join our champions scheme. Following our successful pilot, the University-wide Public Engagement Champions Network is now open for applications of...
Engagement@Manchester session: 20 November, 1-2pm – All welcome
Our next Engagement@Manchester session will showcase projects funded through the University’s Institutional Strategic Support Fund Public Engagement schemes. Hear about a project engaging women in still birth research, one clearing the haze surrounding scientific...
Being Human Festival – 14-23 November 2019
Being Human is the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. The festival is running 14-23 November 2019 and number of events are taking place across Greater Manchester including: Discovering Emigrant Children This event offers the unique chance to learn about...
Little Event 2020 – a 1-day conference for early-career STEM communicators
As part of BIG STEM Communicators Network (the national skills sharing network for those involved in STEM communication) programme of events, registration to the Little Event 2020 is now open! This years Little Event will take place at The Birmingham & Midland...
Would you like to do public engagement with research at Glastonbury Festival 2020?
For the 50th Anniversary, there will be a new science area in the Green Futures field, and the organisers are welcoming applications for exciting interactive science stalls. The applications portal is now open: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/traders...
ESRC Festival of Social Science – 2-9 November 2019
On behalf of all the University partners we wish to invite you to the ESRC Manchester Festival of Social Science! This year our programme features almost 40 events on a variety of themes including climate change, virtual reality, mental health in schools, the gig...
Call for volunteers for Outbreak!
Do you want to have fun and gain Public Engagement experience at the same time? We are running an all day event (Outbreak!) on campus on 14th November for incoming Nursing undergraduates. We will be sending first years all over South campus to figure out the source...
Call: 25 Trailblazers: let us celebrate your public engagement project
Wellcome are searching for examples of great public engagement. Submissions close: 8 November 2019 17:00 GMT. Engaging people with research can change the world. Are you proud of a piece of work where you’ve engaged the public, patients or community groups with...
University of Manchester Wellcome ISSF Public Engagement Funding Schemes
Have you got a great idea to engage people and communities with the research carried out at the University? Would you like funding to develop projects that matter to you, your research and the communities around you? The purpose of these schemes is to support and...
SERRIH’s fourth Annual Primary Science Conference
Are you a governor at a Primary School in Greater Manchester that’s looking to improve Primary Science education? Consider encouraging your Science leads to sign up for the Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub (SEERIH) Annual Primary Science...
Loving Robots? Public event next month
With support and funding from Scientists in Congregations and Creative Manchester, I have been working on some short films based on my research on love and robots. The films will feature robo-companions such as Pepper, MiRo, and Cozmo and they will be used as the...
UKRI to host Citizen Science Fund Webinar – Fri 11 October 2019
UKRI will be holding a Citizen Science Fund Webinar on Friday 11 October 2019 from 14:00 – 14:45. The webinar aims to answer questions and provide background information on the recently launched £400,000 funding call aimed at encouraging researchers and innovators to...
Science Museum Group Research Conference 4-5 November, Manchester
Join us on 4–5 November 2019 at the Science and Industry Museum to discuss 'The Place of Industry’ - a conference organised by the Science Museum Group. Tickets and full programme are available here:...
Do you work with technology? DigiLab needs you!
DigiLab is running a two week residency from 4th -15th November (weekdays only, 11am – 4pm) and we’re looking for demonstrators and lightning talks. DigiLab is a library run service which allows all students and staff to access new technologies, chat to companies and...
Refugees & Mentors are recruiting volunteers for our Mentoring Project
Mentoring supports refugees to improve their employment prospects and get jobs. In its 3rd year, the Mentoring Project supports people with refugee status in a wide range of employment areas, including applying for jobs, interview skills, UK work experience and...
Call for activities for ScienceX 2020
Once again, ScienceX will be taking over Manchester’s intu Trafford Centre for a weekend-long science extravaganza. With the help of staff and students in FSE, ScienceX takes science, engineering and research to the general public at this popular venue. Here we are...
Join the Inclusive Science Engagement Network
The British Science Association are looking for people in science engagement roles to join our network to share learning around Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and support widespread change across science engagement. Key details: The network is for people...
Public Contributor Induction Session 22nd October
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health will be hosting the next Faculty Public Contributor Induction Session in October. The session is relevant for both new and experienced public contributors and will take place on the 22 October 10-1pm. Dr Stephanie Snow,...