Science Uncovered at Manchester Museum Friday 30 September is European Researcher’s night and for the second time Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, will be hosting Science Uncovered Manchester - a spectacular night showcasing Manchester’s finest...
Public Engagement Blog posts
Engage 2016: Inspiring Innovation
I’m delighted to let you know that registration is open for Engage 2016 – the NCCPE’s annual public engagement conference. Featuring the finalists of this year’s Engage competition, the conference will celebrate the diversity of engaged practice across the UK. The...
Apply now for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition - deadline 26 September
There is just a week left to apply to be part of our 2017 Summer Science Exhibition. This is a fantastic public engagement opportunity for researchers and collaborators, at The Royal Society’s biggest public event of the year. The exhibition is a diverse celebration...
Volunteer call for Alien Invaders!
Volunteer call for Manchester Science Festival event at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal Quarry Bank Mill is one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites and home to a working cotton mill active during the industrial revolution when it was manned almost exclusively by...
Become a University of Manchester Science Busker
University of Manchester Postgraduates and Undergraduates - if you love science and engaging with the public then we want to hear from you! The University of Manchester is recruiting Science Buskers to support events taking place during this year’s Manchester Science...
Number Crush – Dr Hannah Fry to present annual Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture
The School of Mathematics is pleased announce that Dr. Hannah Fry will be presenting at the 2016 Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture. The annual lecture, open to students, staff and the public, takes place on Thursday 13 October 2016, 6.30-7.30pm (with coffee and...
SUPI Networking Event 2016 – call for researchers
Are you a researcher interested in engaging with local schools? Want to share your passion for research and your subject area with teachers and students? Want to develop your public engagement and outreach skills? Date: Wednesday 9 November, 4pm- 6:30pm (provisional...
In Conversation with Professor Andre Geim
29 September 2016, 7.30pm - 9.30pm, Revolution Manchester, Great Western Warehouse, Free (booking required). A rare chance to hear the Nobel Prize-winning physicist talk about his life and work. Hosted by author, journalist and museum executive Roger Highfield,...
New Scientist Live – the UK’s biggest festival of ideas and discovery, launches this September
For four days this September (22-25), New Scientist Live will be like nowhere else on Earth. The inaugural New Scientist Live event, courtesy of the team behind the world’s most popular science weekly, is a four-day festival of ideas and discovery taking place at...
We’re after people with STEM background to become online judges for the #BigBangCompetition
Can you help our young scientists and engineers build their skills and confidence in project work? We are currently looking for individuals with a STEM background (academic or working) to become Online Judges for The Big Bang Competition. Previous judging experience...
Wellcome Image Awards 2017: open for entries
The Wellcome Image Awards celebrate the aesthetic beauty of scientific images, the research behind them and the incredible techniques used to create them. The awards, which were first held in 1997, celebrate the best in science image making. Winners receive prizes up...
The Big Bang Fair 2017 – Call for applications
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair (the UK's largest celebration of STEM for young people) is looking for activity providers, science communicators, companies, education institutions and show organisers to play their part in next year's Fair at the...
Manchester MegaPixel needs you!
Mathematician and science communication award winner Katie Steckles is running a large-scale maths project at this year's Manchester Science Festival - the MegaPixel will be a giant photograph made from individual pixels, the same way computer and phone displays show...
President and Vice-Chancellor calls for universities to support public engagement
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, incoming President of the British Science Association and President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester, has today called for UK universities to “encourage, support and reward public engagement”. Speaking ahead of her...
Engineer? We Need You! – Science Showoff is coming to the North West
The team behind Science Showoff is about to travel across the UK, helping to make engineers funny and give them a chance to share their work with new audiences in a humourous way. Engineering Showoff is here! Are you an engineer? In the private or public sector? Or a...
Music workshop at the MOSI Makefest – call for volunteers
The Manchester Branch of the British Science Association are running a workshop at MakeFest at the Museum of Science & Industry this weekend (20th and 21st August, 10am-5pm). We're looking for a few more volunteers to help out! The workshop is music themed -...
Calls for applications of interest – Science Spectacular 2016 and Sampling Science Talks
Science Spectacular – a key event in the Manchester Science Festival programme, returns for 2016 and you are invited to take part. When: Saturday 29 October 2016, 10:00 – 16:00 Where: Manchester Museum What is it? Now in it's 6th year, our university-wide science fair...
Royal Academy of Engineering – Public Engagement Funding
The latest round of the Ingenious scheme is now open to applications, and the closing date is 4pm on Monday 17 October 2016. Ingenious is an awards scheme for projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering. If you have an imaginative idea that helps...
Come and meet the nuclear scientists
Our Next Generation Nuclear scientists are preparing for an outreach activity taking place at MOSI over the summer. But first, they are running an in-house demo of their nuclear-themed interactive table top science activities here on campus. You’ll get the chance to...
University of Manchester Environmental Research Outreach
Advice, Networking & Exchange of Practical Ideas Wednesday 14 September 2016, 11am – 2 pm (lunch included), Williamson building G12 All researchers welcome – whether academic staff, research staff or postgraduate research students with an interest in both...
Plethora of Manchester researchers to appear at Bluedot Festival
The University's Jodrell Bank Observatory aiming to embed science as a normal part of our culture. The festival invites you to camp out under the stars and to explore a stellar programme of music, science, arts, technology, culture, food and film. Bluedot’s mission is...
Soapbox Science is back in Manchester!
Manchester scientists get on their soapboxes - Saturday 23 July, 2016, Piccadilly Gardens,City Centre, Manchester, 1pm – 4pm Manchester celebrates its designation as European City of Science with the EuroScience Open Forum (23-27 July). Alongside these celebrations,...
The Brilliant Club – Tutor Recruitment and Info Event at Manchester
The Brilliant Club Placements: A meaningful, paid opportunity for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to teach their own research! The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that recruits, trains and pays doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to deliver...
Royal Society of Biology – Photography Competition 2016
Biology: from Big to Small is the theme of this years’ Royal Society of Biology amateur photography competition. The competition invites photographers to explore interactions between the macro and the micro in biology – from tiny fish creating huge shoals, to algal...
Chemistry Week (19-27 Nov 2016) funding call
The theme is ‘Changing Places’. RSC Grants of up to £750 will be available to support existing local and regional networks to develop and deliver events during Chemistry Week. Applicants are encouraged to interpret the theme in their own way. For example, networks may...