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Public Engagement Blog posts
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...
Medicine and Healthcare online mentor opportunity – sign-up by 9 Dec 2019
Inspire young people as an online mentor! Greater Manchester Higher are looking for online mentors to share their experience of working in healthcare with young people from Year 12. It’s easy for mentors to get involved and sharing their experience can make a huge...
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...
Being Human Creative Workshop – 15 November 2019
Being Human Creative Workshop, 15 November, Manchester Central Library, 2-4.30 How do you create a story about your family? How do you write your past? This participatory and creative workshop will encourage participants to think carefully about how they might try to...
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...
Pint of Science 2020 – call for volunteers – PhD Researchers
The Manchester team are looking to recruit volunteers (and possible speakers) for the next Pint of Science (PoS) Festival (11-13 May 2020)! Pint of Science is a three day festival taking place across Manchester, where scientists are brought to the pub to share their...
Book launch – Suicide Prevention – 13 November 2019
On the 13 November 2019, Professor Nav Kapur will be speaking about the science of preventing suicide at Blackwell’s bookshop, University of Manchester. The event marks the publication of his new book Suicide Prevention 3rd Edition (Oxford Psychiatric Library). Over...
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...
UK Science Festivals Network Conference
Join us in London on the 19 November for the UK Science Festivals Network Conference to discuss all things science festivals and events…. This conference is for anyone who is interested or involved in organising science festivals, events or activities. 19 November...
Ada Lovelace celebrations: wiki edit-a-thon 17 October 2019
Join us in our Ada Lovelace celebrations by helping to improve the gender diversity of Wikipedia Mathematician Ada Lovelace has long-been recognised as one of the first computer programmers from her involvement in work carried out in the 1800s. Since 2009, her...
Engaging with Schools – Training for Researchers
Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in taking your research or an activity into the classroom? Want to develop your public engagement skills? Then this free schools engagement training opportunity is for you! Tuesday 19 November 2019, 9:30 -...
Launch of the Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Sciences
You are warmly invited to the launch of this year’s Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science. The launch will take place in the Fossils Gallery at Manchester Museum, on Wednesday 30 October from 5.30 to 7pm. There will be some short presentations from some of the...
Research Spotlight: Manchester’s Early Career Cancer Researchers
I’m pleased to invite you to a public event we are hosting on Thursday 24th October at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building, Wilmslow Road in Withington (opposite The Christie Hospital). Research Spotlight: Manchester’s Early Career Researchers will celebrate...
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:...