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...
Public Engagement Blog posts
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...
Service-learning / Community engaged learning – Invitation for July conference proposals
Sent on behalf of the Service Learning/Community Engaged Learning Network We are delighted to invite you to submit proposals for our Service-learning / Community Engaged Learning Summer Conference which will take place virtually on 7 July 2021. The conference will...
Falling Walls Engage – call for applications
This year Falling Walls Engage will return to Berlin as a physical event as part of Falling Walls 202 on 7-9 November. To prepare this great reunion, we have just launched our Call for Applications for the 2021 Breakthrough of the Year in Science Engagement, together...
Public Contributor Induction Session
We are pleased to announce that the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health will be hosting the next Faculty Public Contributor Induction Session. The session is relevant for both new and experienced Public Contributors and will take place on the Wednesday 26 May...
STFC Public Engagement Early-Career Researcher Forum – Call for Applications 2021
STFC Public Engagement Early-Career Researcher Forum Call for Applications Closing date: 16:00, Thursday 3rd June 2021 The STFC Public Engagement Early-Career Researcher Forum (the ‘PEER Forum’) will support talented scientists and engineers in the early stages of...
Evaluating Public Engagement workshops – May 2021
An opportunity to explore approaches and techniques for evaluating your public engagement work. There are two evaluations training sessions taking place in May. Beginner’s Guide to Evaluating Public Engagement When: Tuesday 25/05/2021, 9:30 – 12:00, via Zoom What:...
Global Science Show – Biodiversity Bonanza
The Global Science Show is a virtual science festival that has taken place on Twitter every month from March 2020. You can check us out at @GlobalSciShow on Twitter, we're also expanding out to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. We invite people to share their own little...
LIVE with scientists Lightning talk competition – enter until 26 April
Passionate about what you do? Want to inspire others? Then share your research in a 3 minute clip … LIVE with scientists are celebrating their first year anniversary and invite you to take part in a lightning talk competition. We’ve started posting clips but there is...
Anthropology communicates: with civil society
Anthropology Communicates: A VIRTUAL WEBINAR SERIES ORGANISED BY THE RAI'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY AND PRACTICE COMMITTEE Thursday 8 April 2021, 3-5pm (UK time) More information and registration at: Anthropology Communicates: with Civil Society With confirmed...
The Brilliant Club – Tutor recruitment
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver programmes of university-style teaching to pupils in schools that serve under-represented communities and are currently...
Live with Scientists – get involved
Live with Scientists is a nonprofit initiative devoted to providing equal access to science for everyone. It is an online platform for hosting and archiving LIVE science talks and interviews, and publishing podcasts and blogs on scientific topics that are most...
British Science Week 2021 – Take a look at the University’s events, activities and resources
Each year the University runs a number of events to celebrate British Science Week in March. From Monday, 8 to Saturday, 13 March, we’re bringing British Science Week 2021 straight to schools and homes by offering a range of online opportunities to engage with STEM...
BioDiscovery – showcasing the Biological and Biomedical Sciences for British Science Week
To celebrate British Science Week, we are showcasing the Biosciences, with online resources developed by researchers, lecturers, staff and students at The University of Manchester. Aimed at secondary school pupils (years 7-11) and the general public, the online...
The 2021 Beetlestone Award – leadership and legacy in Informal Science Learning
Are you a leader in the field of ‘informal learning in science’? Or do you work with someone who is? Now in its fourth year, this Award is to recognise someone who has already made or is clearly creating a significant legacy for the field. This Award has been made...