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1 December 2017

Nominate an Award Lecture for British Science Festival 2018

Do you know or work with a promising early career scientist? If so, why not nominate them for an Award Lecture at the British Science Festival 2018!

The Award Lectures aim to promote open and informed discussion on issues involving science and encourage scientists to explore the social aspects of their research. Previous Award Lecturers include the likes of Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Brian Cox.

Awards are available in seven different areas:

Margret Mead: Social Sciences
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering, Technology and Industry
Charles Lyell: Environmental Sciences
Charles Darwin: Agricultural, Biological and Medical Sciences
Rosalind Franklin: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Daphne Oram: Digital Innovation
Jacob Bronowski: Science and the Arts

The selected lecturers will receive an all expenses paid trip to the British Science Festival in Hull to present their talk as well as a £250 honorarium and an invitation to the Festival dinner.

To find out more information and apply, click here. Deadline for applications are 9am 2nd January 2018.

17 April 2017

Social Science Researcher? – ESRC Social Science Festival needs you!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The ESRC Festival of Social Science will be back again this November (4^th-11th), and we need researchers of Social Sciences to come and get involved in running lectures, workshops, exhibitions or other engagement platforms to share your research with the wider public.

Through engaging with the wider public, they develop a range of transferable skills, for instance in leadership, communication, listening, partnership working and project management.

The call is officially open for proposals, so if you’d like to be involved, we’d love to hear from you. Funding is available to support these activities.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form, available on the staff intranet, stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. Please contact event organiser Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Engagement and Impact facilitator Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) to make an application or for further information.

31 March 2017

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2017 – Call for proposals!

Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

The call for event proposals for the ESRC Festival of Social Science is now open! This is a fantastic national festival will take place from 4^th to 11^th of November 2017. It celebrates the best of social science and engages a wide public audience with the key issues that social scientists are currently addressing. We are keen to see as many of our social scientists at BU to take part in this exciting public engagement initiative as possible.

Please contact us if you’d like to get involved – we’re open to ideas; public debates, conferences, workshops, interactive seminars, film screenings, virtual exhibitions and more. 2017 will be the fifteenth year that the ESRC will hold the Festival of Social Science and we are welcoming event proposals targeting a non-academic audience including young people, third sector, the public, business or government.

To apply, you will need to complete an application form stating details of the type of event you’d like to run. If you would like to make an application to run an event as part of the Festival or for further information, please do not hesitate to contact Genna West (gwest@bournemouth.ac.uk) or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk) from the Research and Knowledge Exchange Office.

The application form is available to download from the staff intranet.

Deadline: Friday 5th May, 5 pm

Funding is available to support your event.

For more information about the Festival, visit www.esrcfestival.ac.uk

13 March 2017

Pint of Science – Calling all Tech researchers and Health Researchers!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

Share your research over a pint!

Pint of Science is hosting a series of events taking place across UK from the 15^th-17th May in local pubs around Bournemouth. The Pint of Science festival aims to deliver interesting and relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format to the public – all in the comfort of pub!

We’re currently looking for speakers with Technology based research who would be interested in joining ‘Tech me out’ nights to deliver a talk on one of the 3 evenings – 15^th ,16^th , or 17th – The talks will be taking place in Chaplin’s in Boscombe.

We are also looking for health related speakers to take part in ‘Our body’ nights, also taking place over the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th but this time in the Goat and Tricycle pub in the Triangle, Bournemouth

This is a great public engagement opportunity with an interesting crowd, enabling the opportunity for open discussion and questions with the wider public.

For more information or to get involved please contact Shanti Shanker sshanker@bournemouth.ac.uk or Joanna Pawlik (jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk

To find out more please visit Pint of Science website

Partners include British Heart Foundation, Elsevier and British Pharmacological Society. List of all partners

2 March 2017

Public Engagement Opportunity at the Poole Maritime Festival!

Knowledge Exchange, Public engagement, Student Engagement Joanna Pawlik

It’s that time of year where The Festival of Learning is heading back on-tour and taking BU’s research out to some exciting locations. One of our stops this year includes the Poole Maritime Festival on Saturday 20^th May.

Whatever stage you’re at in your research career, academic or PhD, we’re looking for participants to display and promote their research at the festival. This could be through table-top activities, posters, interactive displays – we’re open to ideas! It would be fantastic if your activities fitted into the theme of maritime heritage and environment but if your research isn’t directly related, we’d still love for you to get involved.

We’re expecting lots of interested members of the public with Poole Harbour Boat Show and the Seven Seas Festival forming part of Poole Maritime Festival’s exciting programme. The Boat Show alone attracted over 15,000 people in 2015! The Festival is linked with European Maritime Day, originally created in 2008 to give Europe’s community of maritime professionals a forum to meet, exchange knowledge and forge partnerships. It is a unique opportunity to promote Poole, local businesses and Bournemouth University’s research to an international audience!

If you’d like to get involved, need some idea inspiration or for any more information, drop me an email jpawlik@bournemouth.ac.uk. If you can’t get involved this year, still make sure that you head down to the Maritime Festival this year, taking place from the 15^th-21^st May.

20 February 2017

Why not get involved in Being Human Festival of humanities?

Funding opportunities, Public engagement Joanna Pawlik

The UK’s only national festival of the humanities, will be returning for fourth year between 17-25 November 2017 and number of grants to support public engagement activities is being offered!

The festival theme this year is ‘Lost and Found’.

To apply for a ‘Small Award’, a ‘Hub Award’, or apply to take part with an event that does not require funding from the festival visit the Being Human festival website

There are also now a number of case-studies on the website which should be useful if you are thinking of applying.

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