BU Research Blog

During last week’s British Science Association’s Science Communication conference, one of the many networking activities was the appearance of a Lonely Heart’s board. This wasn’t a specialist dating scheme for scientists, but sought to make connections around communication and science.

Mainly, these are aimed at PhD students/Early Career Researchers, and can potentially provide great opportunities to develop your public engagement activities, which in turn can contribute to enhanced research and improved skills.

Sis@britishscienceassociation.org is looking for researchers and is offering training on science communication and social impacts of research

Tom.Horner@britishscienceassociation.org is offering volunteering opportunities with the British Science Association branches and organising events.

Robin@sciencemediacentre.org is offering volunteering opportunities/internships at the Science Media Centre (typically 4 weeks in a busy press office) for people with a science background looking for media experience.

Alexa.Mills@esrc.ac.uk is looking for 450 1st year PhD students to speak and inspire at the ESRC/DTC conference in September on impact, online research methods, open access data or quantitative methods.

C.H.Packman@exeter.ac.uk is looking for a partner to work on an ESRC Knowledge Exchange project bid working with schools – ideally researchers with science and social science expertise in the life sciences, especially medical sociology, health and reproduction.

F.Swain@rss.org.uk is looking for post-doc scientists to speak at training workshops for journalists and press officers.  

Farrah.nazir@britishscienceassociation.org is looking for festival assistants at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.

If you plan to follow any of these up, please do drop redwards@bournemouth.ac.uk a line. You might like to attach the relevant image if you plan to follow up the original contacts to jog their memory!