Once again the University of Manchester will be taking part in the national Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. About 3MT challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes...
Public Engagement Blog posts
Open Call: Arts and Health – Late event, 6 March 20919
The Science and Industry Museum are hosting their next adult Late event on Wednesday 6 March. It will explore the connection between physical and mental healthcare and the arts. They are looking for event contributors – researchers, practitioners, artists and...
Volunteers needed – encouraging Year 8 and 9 girls into STEM
Are you passionate about getting girls interested in STEM? Are you are female PhD student, researcher or academic working withing a STEM discipline? This year’s Dragonfly Day, an on-campus event for Year 8 and 9 girls, will be held on Wednesday 13 February. Running...
Join our University of Manchester Science Busker team – free training in Feb
Join our science busking team! If you love science and engaging with the public then we want to hear from you! What is Science Busking? Science Busking involves approaching people, showing them intriguing and entertaining science demonstrations or tricks – much like...
Evaluation of Public Engagement 22/01/2019 9:30 – 13:00
We know that there is some fantastic public engagement work going on across The University of Manchester, but have you considered how you will evaluate your success? Then why not come along to our free masterclass. The session is open to Academic, Research Staff and...
Making a Difference Awards
There’s still time to enter the Making a Difference Awards With a closing date of 21 January there are less than two weeks to go before the deadline for entering the Making a Difference Awards. The Making a Difference Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the many...
Get involved in Royal Institution Masterclasses – training and support
If you're looking for something fun to do in 2019 why not think about creating a Royal Institution Masterclass to share your favourite topic in mathematics, engineering or computer science with keen young people? There's lots of support available through our...
New Scientist Live Organiser visiting Manchester – Tuesday 8th January
On Tuesday 8th January, Jacqui McCarron from New Scientist will be visiting the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (North Campus) to discuss any possible contributions from the University of Manchester to the science festival, which is held every autumn in London....
Call for Contributions – Science in Public 2019
This is just a short note to say that the Science in Public Conference 2019 will be taking place in Manchester from 10 – 12 July at Manchester Metropolitan University, and in collaboration with The University of Manchester and the University of Salford. The Call for...
Public Engagement training opportunities: engagement with blind and visually impaired audiences
Tactile Universe – free training workshop in communicating astronomy to blind and visually impaired young people - Mon 14 January, 10am-4pm, Schuster Building, University of Manchester The Tactile Universe is an STFC Nucleus Award funded public engagement project...
BIG Event 2019 – Call for Session Proposals OPEN
BIG (the British Interactive Group) is thrilled to announce a return to Scotland for BIG Event 2019. The highlight of the STEM communicator’s annual calendar will see our conference held at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh 17-19 July 2019. Dynamic Earth is a wonderful venue...
February 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 in February. The session is relevant for both new and experienced public contributors and will take place on the 12th...
Registration for the 2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition and MathsBombe is now open!
The 2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition is now in its 7th year! It’s an online competition run by the University's School of Mathematics. Every one to two weeks a new chapter of the story is released and there are six chapters in total. Each chapter has a new...
Manchester Access Programme – closing on Monday
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) closes for applications at 5pm on Monday, 17 December! MAP, The University of Manchester’s flagship widening participation scheme for local Year 12 students, aims to help Year 12 students who live or study in Greater Manchester...
UoMStories: A Ted Talk-Style Event for PhD students
Dear PhD and Doctoral Students, Start off 2019 ignited and inspired! UoM Stories is a Ted-Talk/Humans of New York-style event for PhD and Doctoral students, with a vision to create a story-telling culture at the university. We are pleased to announce our line-up of...
Call for UoM Community Festival 2019
Would you like to be part of the next University-wide Community Festival being held on Saturday 15 June 2019? As part of our commitment to enhancing our relationship with members of our local communities, we will be holding our annual University-wide Community...
Communicating physics and astronomy to a visually impaired audience – Manchester, 15 Jan 2019
The University of Manchester is hosting a meeting on "Communicating physics and astronomy to a visually impaired audience" on 15th January 2019, from 10am. Full details and registration...
Join us for another evening of true, personal stories about science on 6th December 2018
The Story Collider: True Stories about Science' Performance by The University of Manchester - 6pm-9.30pm, Thursday 6th December The University of Manchester welcomes back The Story Collider Team as they continue their mission of finding science stories from as many...
UoM Event: Adam Rutherford: In Conversation 17 Jan 2019
Adam Rutherford, Thursday 17 January 2019, 7pm University Place, University of Manchester The AHRC Double-Helix History project and Manchester Literature Festival are delighted to present an evening with self-proclaimed ‘author, broadcaster, scientist, geek’ Adam...
A research handbook for patient and public involvement researchers
We have produced a new handbook during our NIHR funded research programme, EQUIP (enhancing service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning). The book was developed from a research methods course originally designed for mental health service users...
Engagement Matters: Telling true, personal stories about science
In this Engagement Matters post, Sheena Cruickshank shares her experience of attending a storytelling workshop and reflects on her own role in communicating science. As a public engagement practitioner, I passionately believe that the use of storytelling and narrative...
Sci Comm Podcast – contributors call
Following several discussions that have been happening in parallel across the UK's #scicomm community, we thought that it would be a good idea to create a community podcast. The aims and objectives of this podcast would be as follows: To engage scicomm communities and...
Call for Story Collider Pitches – 6 November 2018 deadline
Call for pitches: The Story Collider is delighted to be partnering with The University of Manchester to hold a science storytelling show at The Birdcage on 6th December 2018. For this show, we're seeking true, personal stories about science to be told live on stage....
Looking for speakers for Cafe Scientifique Manchester
We are looking for motivated science communicators to contribute to our talk series this academic year. Our events typically involve a 30min interactive talks and Q&A sessions but could take other formats as well (we’ve done plays and magic shows, etc.). We are...
Brilliant Club tutor opportunity (open to PhDs and Postdocs)
Are you a PhD student or Postdoc looking for meaningful, paid teaching experience? Through working as a tutor with The Brilliant Club, you will: Develop teaching experience and other employability skills Receive high-quality training in teaching pedagogy Enhance your...