Saturday 20 October 2018, 11am – 4pm, The University of Manchester, Whitworth Hall & Manchester Museum, Oxford Road. Free, drop in, family fun science day! Hurrah the Manchester Science Festival is nearly here and The University of Manchester is playing host to...
Public Engagement Blog posts
SUPI: Engaging with Schools Training for Researchers
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a local school? Are you passionate about your subject area? Are you interested in taking your research into the classroom? Want to develop your outreach skills? Then this free public...
New Generation Thinkers – Applications close 4 October 2018, 16.00
The aim of the scheme is to provide a development opportunity for early career researchers to cultivate the skills to communicate their research findings to those outside the academic community. The scheme wants to find a new generation of academics who can bring the...
The University of Manchester Public Engagement Champions Network 2018/19
Passionate about public engagement with experience of helping coordinate public engagement activities? Join our champion scheme. We are launching a new University-wide Public Engagement Champions Network that can work with us to help deliver our public engagement...
BBC World Service and BBC Academy seeking female academics and researchers for media training and opps
The BBC Academy, in conjunction with BBC World Service English, is holding a free media familiarisation day for women with particular expertise who are interested in appearing on video, radio and online as contributors. The BBC World Service is the world's largest...
Hack night to develop a tool for public engagement on food and climate change
We are running a hack night to develop public engagement tools for estimating the contribution of food to greenhouse gas emissions, as part of the Greenhouse Gas and Dietary choices Open source Toolkit (GGDOT) project funded by N8 Agrifood www.ggdot.org. We have made...
The Story Collider: True Personal Stories about Science
The University is delighted to welcome The Story Collider team to Manchester. Their mission is to find science stories from as many different voices as possible and empower people with the skills needed to connect with diverse audiences. To help you develop these...
The University of Manchester is recruiting Science Buskers…
Join our science busking team! If you love science and engaging with the public then we want to hear from you! The University is taking part in the Manchester Science Festival, and as part of our family fun science fair event – Science Spectacular – we are are seeking...
Do you want to help inspire the engineers of the future?
Do you want to help inspire the engineers of the future? A new engineering curriculum project aimed at local primary schools is being developed by Vector STEM Partnership with the support of the University’s Science & Engineering Education R&I Hub (Faculty of...
Tell us what you think about public engagement at Manchester – Engage Watermark Survey (Closes 28 Sept 18)
Another opportunity for you to contribute to our Engage Watermark application for public engagement – help us achieve a gold award. “We need to hear from you about what you think about public engagement at the University as part of achieving a Watermark from the...
Online STEM engagement competitions – I’m a Scientist and I’m an Engineer – back for November
What are I'm a Scientist and I'm an Engineer? Online events where school students get to meet and interact with scientists/engineers. It’s an X Factor-style competition between scientists/engineers, where the students are the judges. Students challenge the...
University of Manchester Wellcome ISSF Public Engagement 2018-19 Funding Schemes – Round 1 now open
The University has been awarded Institutional Strategic Support Funding (ISSF) from Wellcome. In addition to supporting research, there are two funding schemes to support FBMH academic staff and postgraduate students to develop and deliver public engagement activity...
Media Engagement Masterclass, 4 October 2018, 10am to 5pm Bristol
Would you like reach new audiences for your research this year? The NCCPE is hosting a Media Engagement Masterclass next month, providing a practical guide to engaging with the media. Using the NCCPE’s quality engagement framework, this workshop explores the purpose,...
Methods@Manchester – qualitative evaluation workshops
Methods@Manchester are hosting two half-day Quantitative Evaluation workshops at the University on 12 October 2018. Both workshops are suitable for a variety of levels and can be taken individually or together as a package. They aim to improve capacity for conducting...
The Wellcome Photography Prize is now open for entries.
The Wellcome Photography Prize is now open for entries. We are inviting photographers, researchers and other image makers from all disciplines to enter the prize, which celebrates compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science. The overall...
Science Spectacular 2018 Applications of Interest Now Open
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Science Spectacular – our annual university-wide family fun science fair – returns for the Manchester Science Festival 2018, and we hope you can join us. Science Spectacular is a key event in the University’s calendar of public engagement...
Encouraging Collaboration BRC Public Engagement Fund
The Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is offering funding for BRC researchers, staff and students to develop and deliver projects and activities that engage the public in BRC research in line with the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement strategy....
Call out for Manchester Science Festival electricity events (closes 5 September 2018)
The Museum of Science and Industry is looking for STEM professionals working in the field of electricity to support the delivery of a bold, creative and ambitious events programme supporting Electricity: The Spark of Life. There are just two weeks left to submit...
Fun Palaces at Manchester Libraries – call for applications of interest
Fun palaces coming to a library near you! Fun palaces are a way of bringing together Art, Science, local community and FUN!! They’re inspired by Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says: “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the...
Professional conduct in STEM: good practice in promoting anti-harassment
10:00 – 16:00 30 Aug 2018, The University of Manchester, School of Physics and Astronomy Join us for a free one-day workshop to explore good practice in promoting effective anti-harassment and anti-bullying behaviours within our academic STEM community. This event is...
Evaluation of Public Engagement – We want to hear from you
We need your help It’s increasingly important for researchers and universities to be able to track and measure the ‘impact’ of their public engagement activities, but there appears to be a widespread lack of confidence in how to effectively evaluate public engagement,...
Wonder Match Programme – launch events
Are you a scientist or an engineer who has a hunger to share the wonder of your research with others? Are you keen to learn more about how to engage with new audiences? Then Wonder Match could be perfect for you. The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement...
Call out for Science Uncovered Manchester 2018
Friday 28 September is European Researcher’s night and for the fourth time Manchester Museum will be hosting Science Uncovered Manchester - a special late opening showcasing Manchester’s finest researchers and their work for an adult audience. There’ll be research on...
Longsight community festival – 23 June – call for volunteers
I’m planning on taking some demos out to a family community festival in Longsight on Saturday 23rd June and am looking for volunteers. An ad from the organiser is below: I’m looking for either – People to come along and talk a bit about the science of lightning and/or...
Widening Participation Fellowships – Info session and Call for PhDs out now
Paid fellowships to develop and deliver a range of activities to inspire and engage schools and college students from across Greater Manchester. We aim to widen participation to higher education to low participation groups by showcasing university as real opportunity...