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October has flown by and before we knew it November has arrived.. what does this mean? Cafe Scientifique is back. Tonight Jeff Bagust will be discussing Optical Illusions at Cafe Boscanova.
University Challenge has been a TV hit and a favourite for many generations over the years, but have you thought of running a University Challenge styled event as part of the Festival of Learning?
This events catchy theme will be recognisable to many and you really could attract a large audience. If you can create an entertaining session, which encourages audience members to come together to back BU against a local university, you could generate a real interest in your event.
Perhaps you may consider having a studio audience format which tests our brightest BU sparks against a local opposition? This would generate a great atmosphere and has proven to be a hit in previous years.
If you are looking to enagage a widespread audience demographic this may be the event idea for you. In addition, this will provide a fantastic networking opportunity for yourselves, as you interact with the general public.
This style of event has the potential to leave audience members with a new found passion for learning and the opportunity to pass on the experience they had to their friends and family. This will hopefully result in BU being recognised as leading experts in Research and Knowledge Exchange.
If you wish to find out more about the proposal process and the Festival of Learning as a whole, please click here.
If you have an further questions please email me at gibsonh@bournemouth.ac.uk
If you would like help on developing your idea please email Naomi Kay at nkay@bournemouth.ac.uk
On Monday 20th October you may have seen the unveiling of the BUbble dome on Talbot campus for Open access week.This proved to be a major success and talking point of the campus attracting alot of positive attention. For those of you who may wish to get involved in using the BUbble Dome, here is a step by step guide on setting it up.
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the area before rolling it out.
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Once this is zipped you can open the inside door and re-zip when inside.Follow this routine as and when people are required to come in/out. 
If you wish to make any enquiries about the Bubble Dome please email Barry Squires on bsquires@bourenmouth.ac.uk
Alternatively, contact Harry Gibson on gibsonh@bourenmouth.ac.uk
Having spent my placement year organising the Festival of Learning in 2013 I am now back for more! I recently graduated from my undergraduate event management degree and have taken on the post of Public Engagement Officer in R&KEO. My role involves taking the research done by our fantastic academic community and putting this out to the public through a series of public engagement events. The largest of these is of course the annual Festival of Learning, along with Café Scientifique, and our Festival of Learning on tour activities. I’m always looking for new inspiration, so if you have idea’s for events you’d like BU to support that could help you communicate your research let me know.
Over the past six years I’ve held numerous jobs in events, ranging from a summer internship at Claridges to traveling around UK Festivals (everything from V Festival to country shows) working for a Gourmet Burger Stand. Most recently I have been supporting the Office of the Vice Chancellor as the Events and Projects Officer for Silicon South. Through this role I’ve delivered high levels of support and organised multiple events with key contacts external to the university.
Outside of work I spend my time driving the length and breadth of the country keeping up with friends and family, as well as running and swimming to counteract the amount of cake available in R&KEO!
Jisc has introduced a new, secure method of data sharing using its JANET research and education network, to support leading universities undertaking three new initiatives.
“Rather than each of the research programmes and organisations developing one-off solutions to manage collaborative secure communication and user authentication between partners, Jisc is securing the networks across the organisations so that approved researchers working in one partner organisation can gain access to the data they need wherever it is stored.”
The initiatives are:
• Farr Institute of Informatics Research– a UK virtual organisation working with 10 funders on safe use of patient and research data for medical research
• Medical Bioinformatics, funded by the Medical Research Council, to research the safe use and analysis of biological and patient data for medical research across all diseases.
• The Administrative Data Research Network which aims to allow access to anonymised data collected by government and public sector institutions.
John Ainsworth, e-infrastructure lead for the Farr Institute, says: “The network is changing the way we do data analysis. It will provide a secure infrastructure for collaboration and the sharing of resources for data science. This will enable researchers to concentrate on what they do best – discovering new knowledge
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Bubble Dome
As part of International Open Access Week, events will be taking place in ‘BU’s Bubble Dome’ on Talbot Campus in the Courtyard. The dome can also be booked for team meetings and if you’d like to book this alternative space for your meeting please email Barry Squires.
The dome is available on the following dates and times:
Fitting a maximum of 15 people, the Bubble Dome accommodates soft bean bag seating only and a laptop and flat screen TV is available for use. It is a fully enclosed weather proof installation, but will be unavailable in severe wind or rain.
The 2015 Royal Holloway Science Festival is looking for partners who are interested in running an interactive stall, particularly related to the theme of the Science of Games. This event will be held on the 7th March and will run between 10am until 4pm.
About the festival
Royal Holloway Science Festival has been running since 1986 and is one of the longest-running science festivals in the country (and perhaps the world!). It is an extremely popular event with local people also from visitors further afield, with over 6,000 people attending in 2014. Exhibition areas are curated by the academic departments within the science faculty, which includes Computer Science, Geography, Maths and Psychology as well Physics and Biological Sciences.
The festival is free to attend so we would welcome anyone as visitors, but if you would like to be involved in the delivery please contact rhsf@rhul.ac.uk or lucy.yeomans@rhul.ac.uk with an outline of what you are thinking of doing and whether you would like to be hosted by one department in particular or in the main building (or outside).
Do not hesitate to contact if you have any questions.
Three members of CMMPH staff have been invited to present at the Time4you 2 conference next month.
Dr. Jen Leamon (HSC academic lead for Doctoral Professional Practice) has been invited to present a plenary session: Compassion in supervision of midwifery: Why supporting and nurturing a compassionate climate is good for women and good for health professionals.
She will also facilitate a workshop on ‘Creative writing about midwifery and birth: exploring creative approaches to learning’.
The second HSC representative, Wendy Marsh, (Lecturer Practitioner), based in HSC’s Portsmouth office is a key note speaker. Her presentation “Experience of working with safeguarding” will include stories from and photos of midwives to help members of the audience to reflect upon their experiences and to look forward in their own practise.
The third contributor is Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen who will be highlighting a sociological way of looking at childbirth and families.
Time4you 2 is being organised by the Royal College of Midwives, Learning Reps from Poole. Sara Fripp is a maternity support worker and Jillian Ireland is a community midwife and a Visiting Faculty at Bournemouth University. The conference will be held on October 15th in Bovington (Dorset).
The conference fees have been kept low to make attendance accessible to a wide audience. Tickets can be bought at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time4you-2-tickets-10906498631
Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen
CMMPH
CIPPM Researchers Professor Maurizio Borghi, Dr. Marcella Favale, Dr. Fabian Homberg, Mr. Conor O’Kane, Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and Professor Ruth Towse attended the All-Hands Meeting hosted by CREATe, University of Glasgow on 15-16 September 2014.
Set in the beautiful Mackintosh Suite of House for an Art Lover (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh), the event showcased the projects and associated projects of CREATe’s consortium members. It also provided an opportunity to stage the projects through the medium of exhibition posters thereby capturing the creativity of the research – very much the theme of the two days.
The involvement of CIPPM Researchers in various CREATe projects led to a number of posters and presentations.
CIPPM, Co-Director, Professor Ruth Towse, Principal Investigator of the project, ‘Historical Analysis of the Role of Copyright in Music Publishing’ presented the research on the economic survival of the music publishing industry. CIPPM Director, Professor Maurizio Borghi and CIPPM Research Assistant Hyojung Sun also forms part of this team together with Professor Fiona MacMillan of Birkbeck College, University of London.
CIPPM Research Fellow, Dr. Marcella Favale presented her research carried out with CREATe Director and CIPPM Visiting Professor, Professor Martin Kretschmer and Professor Paul Torremans of University of Nottingham. The project titled ‘Is there a EU Copyright Jurisprudence’ attempts to understand how copyright jurisprudence is created.
CIPPM Member and Lead Producer of the project, Mr. Bartolomeo Meletti, presented the research on Copyrightuser.org Funded initially by Bournemouth University’s Fusion Investment Fund and extended by RCUK funding provided by CREATe, copyrightser.org is an online resource aimed at making UK copyright law accessible to creators and members of the public. It is a joint project between CIPPM, CREATe and the Centre for Media Practice (CEMP) at Bournemouth University.
CIPPM Co-Director and Principal Investigator of Copyrightuser.org, Dr. Dinusha Mendis and CIPPM Copyright Researcher and PhD Candidate Ms. Hayleigh Bosher forms part of the project together with leading UK copyright experts and various academic contributors who also form part of the copyrightuser.org team.
At the event, Dr. Dinusha Mendis was invited to speak in the ‘Rump Plenary Session’ (5 New Things for CREATe to Think About). In this context, Dr. Mendis spoke about her research on 3D Printing and IP Law.
CIPPM Member, Dr. Fabian Homberg presented his research carried out together with Dr. Kris Erickson (CREATe Research Fellow) and Professor Martin Kretschmer. Titled, ‘Kickstarter Loves the Public Domain’ the project considers how copyright works in the public domain are valued – with the focus on the poster/presentation being on the Kickstarter element of the project.
CIPPM Visiting Professor, Professor Paul Heald and CIPPM Co-Director, Dr. Dinusha Mendis also forms part of this project together with a number of other collaborators.
Sascha-Dov Bachmann, Associate Professor in International Law, was invited to present as a panel member the subject of Hybrid War/Threats/Ecothreats and Armed Conflict at the 5th International Symposium on Security and Military Law 2014 (the ISSML), to be held on September 25-27, 2014 in Seoul and organized by the Office of Judge Advocate General, Republic of Korea Army.
The purpose of the ISSML is to bring together leading authorities of the world including scholars, government officials, and military officers, to provide a meaningful opportunity to discuss, explore, and examine on current international law issues, and to serve as an effective forum of security and military diplomacy for peace and stability of the world.
This year’s ISSML has so far attracted high ranking military officers, government officials, scholars from 22 countries; and confirmed presenters including judge advocates having operational law assignments from US, UK, Australia, and S. Korea, Belgium General Counsel to the Office of Ministry of Defense and an ICRC Assembly member.
Sascha’s work on Hybrid War and Ecothreats has been published in various international and UK journals and is subject of continuing collaborative activities with colleagues and institutions from the UK, US, Sweden and Germany.
In a contribution to the international PR Measurement Week, regional practitioners attended an evening training session in The Media School on September 16.
The public engagement event was organised by Professor Tom Watson and Wessex Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) chair Natasha Tobin, who lectures part-time on the BA Public Relations programme. It was attended by 14 CIPR members, who also gained CPD points for their annual professional training quota.
The practitioners were shown basic media measurement techniques using an Excel utility which Professor Watson has developed. It features in the third edition of ‘Evaluating Public Relations’ (Kogan Page 2014) co-written with former BU lecturer Paul Noble.
“Measurement and evaluation is one of the top PR practice issues and we were pleased to organise hands-on training for regional PR people as part of the international week,” said Professor Watson. “BU has had a long relationship with CIPR since BAPR was started in the late 1980s and so they were natural partners for this initiative.”
Measurement Week has been organised around the world by the Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) and has the support in the UK of CIPR and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA, which both recognise BU’s public relations courses.
Delegates and Professor Tom Watson (c) at the training session
Argyro Karanasiou (http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/akaranasiou), a member of CIPPM (http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/cippm/focus-areas/digital-rights/) and Lecturer in Law at BU has been invited by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Representative on Freedom of the Media to join the expert meeting on open journalism. The high level meeting will focus on the human rights and legal implications of Open Journalism. Presentations and discussions will focus on new ways to protect media plurality and the rights of non-traditional voices online.
Argyro, who was awarded a PbD (Privacy by Design) Ambassadorship by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Canada this July, shall be discussing the concept of online free speech and open journalism by design.
The event will take place in Vienna, Austria on Sept 19th and will be will be webcast live on www.osce.org.The meeting and all information related to the event, including documents and information about the speakers is available at www.osce.org/event/open-journalism.
Public engagement is a term that you may recognise, but do you really understand what public engagement is and what makes it so important?
What is public engagement?
Public engagement is a term which is associated and used in a variety of sectors- from arts and heritage to science policy and local government. Although the term is spread across these sectors, there is a common aspiration shared between them. To better connect the work of universities and research institutes with society. As the NCCPE tells us the key thing to remember is to make sure engagement is a two way process of give and take between academia and society.
Understanding Fusion: making the connection between public engagement & Bournemouth University
“Fusion is the combination of inspirational teaching, world-class research and the latest thinking in the professions which creates a continuous and fruitful exchange of knowledge that stimulates new ideas, learning and thought leadership”
This is at the heart of all we do here at BU and a key focus of our 2018 strategic plan. The NCCPE also give us three fantastic reasons why we should support public engagement.
The universities that commit and dedicate to public engagement activities can create long-term relationships with the community, businesses and general public. By creating Public engagement activities it is possible to help our academics and researchers to understand, recognise and then learn from what the public expect and in addition, what are their concerns are. This may help solve real world problems in the long term. By involving members of the general public in academic research, this can enable our researchers to make their decisions and research more responsive to our society.
In Order for our universities projects and research to be funded, the funding providers look to see the level of impact and overall benefit to the public. The next summers Festival of Learning will provide academics with an incredible opportunity to demonstrate both of these, whilst inspiring these public stakeholders along the way.
Public engagement allows our university to adapt to the changing world. This is done by understanding changes to the community and world culminating in us readapting ourselves to meet the needs of the community.
Why you should get involved in public engagement!
Research from our eight societally driven themes is the content which is broadcast through our public engagement, using the strategies stated above. Therefore, it is of upmost importance that this is communicated effectively, with our public stakeholders understanding the latest research that is undertaken at the university. By creating stand out and memorable public engagement events, our public stakeholders understanding levels of the research that is undertaken by many in the university will increase. This in turn, will provide various positive externalities as a result.
Getting involved
Why not present and display your research to INSPIRE our local community?
Publically engaging will not only inform the public of your research, but it allows them to engage with it. BU2018 aims to see BU share our expertise and knowledge. By getting involved in activities such as the Festival of Learning, you now have the opportunity to showcase your dedicated hard-work. Become #BUProud !!
You may even be able to improve and update your research through public engagement. Through interacting with the public you will benefit from individuals who can constructively influence your research.
You will be able to access a forum where the public raise issues within your area of expertise. By helping these individuals you will be able to build a long term relationship with them.
A key benefit for you will be the enhancement of your research! By sharing your findings you will be more visible to the public eye, the media and the research community as a whole. Why let your hard work not get noticed/the acclaim it deserves?
If you have ideas for public engagement events, or want to get involved with initiatives like Café Scientifique then let us know. We’ll soon be looking for event ideas for the Festival of Learning 2015, so please do get your creative hats on or drop me an email if you’d like to meet up for a brainstorm session.
The first few days in a new job tend to be a nerve wrecking experience for most, but not for me! I was asked if I wanted to go to Bestival to take part in The Science Tent. The prospect of taking part in my first student/public engagement event, a week after I had just started was very exciting.
Taking BU’s research to Bestival, Isle of Wight (which is one of the most exciting festivals this country has today) was an opportunity we could not refuse. With capacity exceeding more than 50,000, the opportunity for public engagement was always going to be rife.
Besitvals Peace Hill & Valley played host to the very popular Science Tent, where the BU team solely engaged with more than 1500 members of the festival. We disseminated 1500 wristbands and gave away lots of additional merchandise to get our name out there and recognised. Let’s hope some of them remember!
One activity we had at Bestival was Surprising Skulls. It consisted of a number of replica animal skulls which participants had to identify by examining features such as the type of teeth they have and the position of their eyes. We also encouraged them to engage in brain teasers such as word and colour recognition and how they conflict with each other, this proved to be a fun and humorous activity to the people participating. The enthusiasm for our stall was ever so pleasing for the team which consisted of Barry Squires (Public engagement & Impact Manager) and Sam Squelch (Student Engagement Coordinator) The Primate Activity ran by Fiona Coward and Sarah Elliot were also extremely popular and engaged a lot of attendees. This extremely exciting display gave passers-by research into our ancestors dating back from 7 million years ago and the journey on how we have evolved. The reaction to both displays was filled with growing enthusiasm and a genuine sense of interest into some of the research that was on show, bring on next year!
Does Bestival sounds like something you would like to get involved with? Do you have an exciting research activity that you could showcase? If so, why not register your interest ready for next year. Click here to find out what other exciting and engaging activities took place at The Science Tent last week.
We use IR Stats software to analyse your research outputs in BURO (Bournemouth University’s institutional repository) and produce the statistics below. A dashboard of statistics on individual outputs is freely available to all – simply access each of your items in BURO and scroll down the web page.
Buhalis, D. and Law, R., 2008. Progress in information technology and tourism management: 20 years on and 10 years after the Internet—The state of eTourism research. Tourism Management, 29 (4), pp. 609-623.
*by current staff
This article is a green open access post print i.e. the author accepted version. Always remember to retain this final peer-reviewed version of all your research papers. Most articles in BURO are author accepted versions. You can check publisher copyright policies for archiving in BURO on the Sherpa Romeo website.
Search engine referrals
62.31% from Google Scholar
7.17% from Google
This demonstrates how well BURO is indexed by the most high profile search engines for research.
Professor Buhalis writes,
It is always great to publish great research but for me it is all about relevance and impact on society and making sure that research is accessible and useful to as wide an audience as possible
Bate, S. and Bennetts, R., 2014. The rehabilitation of face recognition impairments: A critical review and future directions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 491 – http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21334/
PhDs consistently appear high up in the most downloaded outputs lists in repositories and BURO is no exception. In August these theses were 2nd 3rd and 4th in the list.
| Burrows, E. A., 1997. Stress in qualified nursing staff and its effect on student nurses. PhD Thesis (PhD). Bournemouth University. | 1069 |
| Franklin, I., 2009. Folkways and airwaves: oral history, community and vernacular radio. PhD Thesis (PhD). Bournemouth University. | 564 |
| Cramer, D. E. A.., 2009. Consumer perceptions and experiences of relationships with service organisations: financial, travel and tourism organisations. PhD Thesis (PhD). Bournemouth University. | 538 |
Burrows, E.A. August 2014 document downloads
Please do keep adding your full-text research outputs to BURO via BRIAN, both green and gold. To be eligible for submission to the next REF exercise all journal papers and conference proceedings will have to be made freely available in an institutional or subject repository (such as BURO) upon acceptance (subject to publisher’s embargo periods). See the blog post here on how to add outputs to BRIAN.
Any queries please contact the BURO team: BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk
As R&KEO’s new Public Engagement Officer I have taken a week to travel up to my hometown of Birmingham and visit this years British Science Festival to get some inspiration for ways to tell the public all about the amazing research our academics are getting up to at BU.
So far this weekend I’ve heard from two of the most celebrated female science communicators Alice Roberts (Professor of public engagement at the University go Birmingham and star of multiple television programmes) and Maggie Aderin-Pocock (star of BBC programmes such as “Do we really need the moon?”). I’ve also heard about the biology of dinosaurs, finally learnt the answers to my burning questions about how they did the special effects in the original Star Wars (with difficulty it would seem!), and learnt why improbable occurrences, such as this poor guy being struck by lightening twice in a row, can and do happen!
My favourite event so far though would have to be Science Show Off. The great news is this is an event that happens regularly in different parts of the country, and if you fancy yourself a comic genius you can go and take part! Academics and students are given 9 minutes to get up and talk about whatever they like. Yesterday’s 2 hour show taught me how Galileo and his pals were wrong in there assumption that the square root of 2 could’ve expressed as a fraction, why I should give up drinking to upgrade my DNA (probably not going to happen), that spiders really just need a rebrand, and what a particle physicist does and why! All of these short snappy sessions were delivered in a comedic style making it a highly informative yet humorous evening to attend.
If you think you secretly missed your calling as a stand up comedian then take a look at their website which let’s you see what gigs they have coming up and sign up to perform your set – no questions asked!
If in fact you think this is something you’d like to do here in Bournemouth send me an email and I will take a look at slipping our own version into one of our own public engagement projects.
Hello, my name is Sam Squelch and I am on my work placement working as the Student Engagement Coordinator. My responsibility is to engage the students with the research of the university in a fun and interesting manner. I have found some events and ideas that relate to students that I found of interest, so why not have a read and see if such activities could interest you.
Creative Technology Day
Creative Technology Day is open to primary schools, secondary schools, higher education, the cultural sector and technology sectors. Why not expand your knowledge and understanding and come down to this event hosted in London on Thursday, October 2nd 2014 from 10:00am to 4:30pm.
Creative Technology Day supports the collective understanding of ‘learning through making’ with creative technologies through both formal and informal settings. This event is key for engagement as it brings together the primary, secondary and Higher Education communities, along with the cultural sector and technological companies. Those who possess an interest in this can only gain a benefit through participation.
If this event may be of interest to you, then why not become a participant? Those who attend this event are asked to bring along materials where they can discuss some projects that they have undertaken whilst being at school, as part of research they have undertaken, public engagement activities, arts interventions and so on. Participants will then be able to present their work with a group in a discussion, quick fire presentations, demos and so on. This is a day where you can get involved and learn something new from others around you, so be prepared to learn of others past experiences.
This event will attract a curious and interesting group of active makers where the integration and use of creative technologies are ever present in their work, it will provide a warm and informal occasion for people to learn from one another, make connections, develop new knowledge and advance collective understanding.
If this sounds like something of interest to you, there are details of how to book on the Creative technology Day website.
The event is held at Central Saint Martins, 1 German Square, London, N1C 4AA.
The British Science Festival
Why not come down to The British Science Festival, which is being held in Birmingham on the 6th-11th September 2014.
This September will see the British Science Association bring the British science festival to Birmingham, a city widely recognised as being at the forefront of scientific and technological advancement.
‘Seeing is believing’ is an event taking place on Monday 8th September 2014 from 15:30-17:30 at the Vision Sciences Building: Aston University and gives its new research and technology to participants to have the exciting opportunity to have their retina scanned, retinal pigment measured and photographs taken using the latest retinal imaging technology. Imaging technology allows the detection of eye diseases well before they can be spotted using conventional examination techniques. You can also find out how healthy your diet is and the effect it has against your eyes and disease your eyes can get from having a bad diet. Sound interesting to you? You can find out more and book here.
Another exciting event taking place at the British science festival is ‘Being a language Detective’ which gives participants the information on what there text messages say about them. Why not get down to the event and learn about the forensic linguistics through the practical workshop and also take part in in activities to see whether you can solve previous cases for forensic linguistics.
This event can show you how your text can be as incriminating as a fingerprint. Join this event and find out how they have helped solve criminal cases, based on language evidence at the scene.
An event to catch the eye could be ‘What would you do in a zombie epidemic’
This event looks at ways in which governments can use models to make policy and looks at several ways of ‘what we should do if zombies attack?’ The event then goes into a more detailed approach about health promotion during a zombie attack using ideas from the zombie models.
The being human festival will celebrate the breadth and diversity of the humanities at events across the UK. The activities will be held in museums, galleries, and cultural and community centres and even takes place in a cave.
An event in the Being Human Festival that take place in Belfast, led by the Queens University Belfast is the ‘Becoming Human, a tale of two caves’. This event is an exhibition of posters, small objects and video display with materials from the AHRC which sponsored ‘Niah Cave Project’ and the ERC which sponsored ‘Haua Fteah Project’. This event will help communicate important advances in our understanding of the nature of early modern human’s use of landscapes, resources and ritual to flourish in extreme environments like the Southeast Asia rainforests and the North African deserts. Whilst giving a good understanding of certain human attributes, it will also be a fun event full of interesting facts and knowledge.
These events give students an in-depth knowledge into research and enable them to engage with their audience in many scenarios.
It’s almost that time of year again as The British Science Festival lands in Birmingham on the 6th September! A festival which in the past few years has ventured to Liverpool, Aberdeen, Newcastle and Guildford (Amongst others) you would be crazy to miss out as the event works its way into the midlands in 2014.
This yearly event which has become one of Europe’s “largest celebrations of science, technology and engineering” is offering a staggering 250 events, activities, exhibitions and trips over the course of the week. The only question which remains is which events will you be putting in your calendar this September?
If it’s an idea for a weekend family outing you’re after, The British Science Festival has a great deal to offer you and your children. Saturday between 10:00 and 16:00 your children will be busy walking on custard and most importantly getting outdoors, viewing gigantic bubbles and having a go hands on themselves!
Sunday brings with it further opportunities for engagement. Firstly, they can make their own fossils, followed by a childhood hit past and present as they take to panning for gold between 11:00 and 16:00.
While the children have had fun engaging in their activities, don’t worry there are also events for adults! Sunday afternoon between 15:30 and 17:00 why not attend the very popular event of “Not enough exercise, too much stress: The curse of modern living”
The weekend may come to a close however; the festival is only just getting started. Between Monday and Thursday the events keep on coming, The X-change is an event which is guaranteed to attract many. This part chat show part science cabaret brings with it inspiring speakers and perhaps a few famous faces. Running between 13:15 and 14:30 the event is the perfect way to start your afternoon.
A Night At The Museum is something that will be sure to attract a lot of attention on Thursday evening between 18:30 and 23:00. The finishing event to the BSF will end in style, with the bar open and the music turned up it will be a great setting for the last activities of the week.
After this taste of what is on offer and considering there are 250 events organised, why not take a look at the website yourself and make The British Science Festival, YOUR British Science Festival using this link.
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