EuroScience seeks scientific programme ideas for Manchester 2016 Representatives from the ESOF host city of Manchester and EuroScience – a grassroots association which acts on behalf of Europe’s scientific community – are calling for session proposals to populate the...
Public Engagement Blog posts
Bright Club Manchester – looking for academics & PhD students for stand up comedy
Bright Club Manchester, the thinking person's variety club, is currently looking for researchers, PhD students, and other experts in their field to try their hand at a short stand-up comedy set. Why? Because it’s fun, interesting and a genuinely useful way to...
Pint of Science is coming to Manchester
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t found a cure for CANCER or ALZHEIMERS? Whether NUCLEAR power is a better form of energy than SOLAR power? Why our WEATHER FORECASTS go bad? Or even how schools support children with DYSLEXIA? All of these questions and more are...
Celebrating Art/Science Engagement
Hosted by the Public Programmes Team at The Nowgen Centre, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 from 14:00 to 16:00, Manchester M13 9XX, United Kingdom Engaging the public with current research is becoming ever more important, and in order to reach above and beyond the usual...
British Science Festival Fringe Programme for families and schools: Open call
Be a part of the Fringe Science Festival 2015 in Bradford this September. The Fringe Science Festival will be following on from the British Science Festival which is being hosted by the University of Bradford in 2015. The Fringe is starting on Friday 11 September and...
Science @ the Sally
As part of the British Science Association’s Science Communication Conference 2015, MMU is proud to host ‘Science @ the Sally’. Come and join us on Wednesday 17 June for an afternoon of science-themed fun, frolics and festivities. There’ll be laughs, there’ll be beer...
Unusual festivals for engaging the public in your research
Our next Engagement@Manchester lunchtime meeting exploring issues of public engagement is on Wednesday 18 March, 1-2pm at Manchester Museum. Unusual festivals for engaging the public in your research This session will explore some of the more unusual festival events...
UoM Public Engagement Survey
As the new Academic Lead for Public Engagement with Research I have been asked to review our current engagement activities and consider how we can improve what we do. Your voice will really help us in trying to support public engagement in the University whether you...
British Science Week 2015: Tell us what switched you onto science! #My1stExperiment
What was the first experiment which sparked your scientific curiosity? What did you do? Did you realise you wanted to become a scientist? It might be the first experiment that you did as a child or perhaps the first experiment you did once you started studying science...
British Science Festival – September 2015 Bradford – open call
British Science Festival Open Call for proposals: In 2015, the British Science Festival programme is opening its doors to academics, organisations and individuals who want to bring cutting-edge British Science to an adult, non-specialist audience. There are no...
AN 80,000 WORD THESIS WOULD TAKE 9 HOURS TO PRESENT. THEIR TIME LIMIT… 3 MINUTES!
Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition – The UoM Final Monday 23 March, 16:00 – 18:00, Alan Turing Building G.107 What is 3MT? The Three Minute Thesis ®(3MT) competition challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation of their research topic...
Call for Proposals: Science Stalls for Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man Festival 2015
The Green Man Festival is held near the Black Mountains in Wales and attracts 20,000 festival goers. The festival has earned a reputation as one of the great independent festivals in the UK. In 2010 Green Man won ‘Best Medium Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards and in...
SICK! Festival – unique arts and health festival in Manchester, 2 – 25 March 2015
SICK! Festival is the first festival in the UK dedicated to revealing and debating our most urgent physical, mental and social challenges – and is expanding in 2015 into venues across Manchester, from 2 - 25 March 2015. SICK! Festival was launched in 2013 as the first...
Applications are now open for the Josh Award 2015
The Josh Award is an award established to recognise and support up-and-coming talent in science communication, nurture development in the field (with the support of BIG - the skills sharing network for people involved in the communication of STEM) and support the...
Skills Days for STEM Outreach delivery – 20 – 21 April 2015
Do you work in Outreach? Is it your role to manage, develop and deliver research engagement? For example, based in a university or research centre? Over a number years there has been a steady increase in the number of BIG members whose role is managing public...
Are you planning an event for Schools as part of British Science Week 2015, or would you like to? Read on!
British Science Week 2015 will be taking place from 13 – 22 March 2015. Building on the success of last year, we will be hosting a 4-day programme of activities for schools in the North West, featuring a Science Fair, a Science Workshop and a Guest Lecture by a...
#ShareMyThesis competition (Closing date: 9 February 2015, 10.00am)
The #ShareMyThesis competition challenges PhD students past and present to summarise why your PhD research is important in 140 characters or less. Are you currently studying for or have you completed a PhD degree? Do you want to tell the world why your research is...
Bright Club Manchester – New Beginnings
29 January 2015, 7:30 - 10:15pm, Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester Since it is January, we will be thinking about starting anew, with some fresh ideas from a new bunch of researchers. Your compere ANDREW TAYLOR presents SOPHIE HASLETT, a breath of fresh air BEN STUTCHBURY,...
BBC Media training for BAME scientists in North of England
The BBC Academy is organising a free media training/introduction to the world of broadcasting day in Salford on Thursday, the 26 February to encourage more BAME experts in the North of England to put themselves forward as experts for the media - and help increase the...
Nuffield Research Placements: Host a Student this Summer
Could you host a sixth form student on a Nuffield Research Placement in July / August 2015? Last the University of Manchester were proud to have hosted more students than any other institution in the UK. They are now looking for researchers and academic staff who...
Standing up for Science Media Workshop – 27 March 2015, Manchester
Standing up for Science Media Workshop - 27 March 2015, 10:30am - 5pm University of Manchester, University Place 6.207 (Apply by 13 March) Are you passionate about your research? Do you think it is important for good science and evidence to be communicated to a wider...
Call for Researchers: SUPI Engaging with Secondary Schools Training Opportunity – 2 March 2015
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a local secondary 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...
Call for Researchers – ‘SUPI: Engaging with Secondary Schools’ Training Opportunity – 2 March 2015
Would you like the opportunity to develop an outreach activity and engage with a local secondary 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...
MaD awards – including one for public engagement
The new Making a Difference Social Responsibility Awards have just been launched. The Making a Difference Awards will recognise and celebrate the many different types of social responsibility achievements of the University’s academic and professional support staff,...
NERC Summer of Science – Public engagement for NERC’s 50th anniversary
NERC is inviting applications from researchers to deliver public engagement activities as part of the 'NERC Summer of Science' taking place during the summer of 2015. The deadline for applications is 17:00, 26 January 2015. The aims for NERC's Summer of Science are:...