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Muscling In! Developing Science Shows Collaboratively with Schools
At the Suzanne Eldridge, William Harvey Research Institute and Ameerah Khan, Katie Chambers, Centre of the Cell were finalists for an celebrating the partnerships that often underpin great public engagement. Below, Suzanne Eldridge shares her experience of being part of the project:
Date added: Thursday, January 11, 2018
Katie's Team - our Engagement and Enterprise Awards nomination
As nominations close for the , we asked some of last year's finalists and winners about their projects, and what it means to them.
Date added: Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Syria: A Story of Conflict
Since September 2016, Chris Phillips has been working with the Imperial War Museum (IWM) as curator for a public exhibition on the Syrian Civil War. Nominated for an Public Engagement Award at the and the exhibition about to move to IWM North, Chris reflects on his experience.
Date added: Thursday, February 1, 2018
Kiyma Canina: Online self-help programme
Ozlem Eyelm has created an online self-help programme for managing suicidal thoughts and worries for the Turkish-speaking populations in the UK and in the Netherlands. Nominated for an at the , Ozlem shares her experience.
Date added: Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Talking Trauma at the Big Bang Fair
The Centre for Trauma Sciences were awarded a Large Grant from the Centre for Public Engagement last year. Below, we catch up with how they're getting on with their project:
Date added: Monday, April 16, 2018
Do the over 65y want technology to help them take their medication?
In 2015 Anna De Simoni was awarded a small CPE grant to organise two workshops in two community centres in London with over 65 years old on daily medications. The topic of discussion was whether they consider technology helpful with their daily medication taking. Her post summarises these conversations, which have informed a successful National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) programme grant application and offer insights to clinicians and policy makers about the potential role of technologies in medicine taking in this patient group.
Date added: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Gender in the Contemporary World: reflections from the organisers
In December 2017, the Centre for Public Engagement awarded Ynda Jas and Elisa Passoni a Small Grant to support their Gender in the contemporary world conference. We caught up with them to get their reflections:
Date added: Friday, May 18, 2018
A bit of CS4FN - computer science support for primary schools
QMUL's Computer Science for Fun project uses everyday concepts to help introduce computer science research to young people in a friendly way
Date added: Friday, June 22, 2018
In February 2018, Jessica Jacobs, School of Geography, applied for a CPE Small Grant to develop and deliver a workshop with New Orleans residents to map their city. Below she shares her reflections:
Date added: Monday, July 2, 2018
Rhythms of the Heart
Heart & Music explored the connections between music and heart rhythms. The organisers, Elaine Chew, Professor of Digital Media at QMUL’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Pier Lambiase, Professor of Cardiology at UCL and Barts Heart Centre, and Peter Taggart, Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology at UCL reflect on the challenges, aims, and highlights of the event:
Date added: Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Fake a knee at the Science Museum
As part of The Science Museum's recent Women in Engineering Family Festival led by the Science Museum, Dr Tina Chowdhury built a fake knee with families as part of her project The BioEngineering experience.
Date added: Sunday, July 15, 2018
London Bound: Being Human Festival Hubs announced
As Queen Mary University of London is announced as one of only six Being Human hubs across the country, shares some of the highlights of the London Bound programme for Being Human Festival.
Date added: Monday, July 9, 2018
Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Tissue Bank (PCRFTB)
Earlier this year, we piloted a new PPI Grants scheme support active public involvement in health-related research at QMUL. We supported the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Tissue Bank at Barts Cancer Institute hosted an interactive discussion-led event with patients and families. Rhiannon Roberts shares her experiences of the day
Date added: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
‘The doctor will see you now’
How do you get teenagers with asthma to take control of their condition? The Centre for Public Engagement awarded the Asthma in Schools project a small grant in November 2016 to develop films to explore how teenagers can communciate with their GPs about their condition.
Date added: Monday, July 30, 2018
Europe at all costs- how can researchers visually change the message about migration
Sarah Wolff, School of Politics and International Relations, has collaborated with an anthropologist, Aziz Hlaoua and film maker Laurent Fontaine Czackzes as part of her research on migration. She tells us about her experience of filming in Calais and the challenges arising from filming a documentary with and by people in exile.
Date added: Sunday, August 5, 2018
Seeing STARS: Public engagement through mentoring and performance
Through our Small Grants scheme, the CPE supported Mojisola Adebayo, School of English and Drama, to host a staged reading of her play STARS-along with a mentoing week at Ovalhouse Theatre. Below she shares her experiences.
Date added: Monday, August 27, 2018
The Love Machine: Exploring the Neuroscience of Romance at the Science Museum, London
Do opposites attract? Do the opinions of friends and family matter? Are arguments a healthy part of a relationship? As part of the Science Museum's Pride Late in June, David Saunders, supported by a CPE Small Grant, produced the Love Machine: a series of immersive audio-visual performances to share his research into the history of attempts to answer those questions.
Date added: Monday, August 13, 2018
Mole rats on display
Chris Faulkes, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, and Julie Freeman, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, were invited to take part in the 2018 Royal Society Summer exhibition with their RAT Systems project. As the deadline to be part of 2019 approaches, they share their experiences of the exhibition:
Date added: Monday, August 20, 2018
Centre of the Cell goes into the community
Earlier this year, the Centre for Public Engagement launched a Community Engagement Funding stream. Centre of the Cell used the money to take their science shows into the local community at the Ideas Store in Whitechapel. Very different from their usual classrooms or their Pod at the Blizard building, what did they learn from the experience?
Date added: Monday, September 10, 2018
More than a meal: telling a different story about migration and refugees
In May 2018, we supported Olivia Sheringham, School of Geography, through the Small Grants, to deliver an event at Walthamstow Garden Party with chairty, Stories and Supper. Below she reflects on how such events can change the dominant narrative about migration and refugees.
Date added: Monday, September 17, 2018
Back to school with the Institute of Research in School
As students head back to school in their droves, we catch up with Dr Lizzie Rushton, Head of Evidence and Evaluation, Institute for Research in Schools and Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL Institute of Education, on their innovative public engagement scheme to bring cutting edge research into the classroom.
Date added: Monday, September 3, 2018
Work experience at William Harvey Research Institute
In Spring 2017, the Centre for Public Engagement piloted a new , for QMUL staff and stduents to develop community initiatives responding to the needs of the local community. The team at William Harvey Research Insitute piloted a work experience programme. Below, Adewale Kukoyi, Brampton Manor Academy, London shares his experience being aprt of the programme.
Date added: Monday, October 1, 2018
Case closed: Legal Advice Centre and community engagement
With the 2018 Community Engagement Awards ceremony just around the corner, we catch up with Frances Ridout from the Legal Advice Centre about their winning projects from 2017.
Date added: Monday, October 15, 2018
Visual Reflections of Mental Health: Realities of Severe Mental Illness for Ethnic Minority People
Kristoffer Halvorsrud, Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine, successfully applied for a 2017 Large Grant to work with patients from ethnic minority backgrounds with severe mental illness to create a series of photographic exhibitions showcasing the realities of severe mental illness. As a new display opnes in the foyer of the Queen's Building, he reflects on his experience working with the patients.
Date added: Monday, October 29, 2018
The science-policy interface
In a survey of QMUL researchers that revealed that were ‘slightly’ knowledgeable about science-policy but ‘not at all’ aware of how they could get involved, Elly Tyler, Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Blizard Institute, took it into her own hands to organise 'The science-policy interface' event, bringing together science-policy professionals and researchers in order to ask the questions: How researchers can contribute and why we should. Below, she shares her insights.
Date added: Monday, November 5, 2018
Diabetes Lay Panel: Our nomination for the Engagement & Enterprise Awards
As we open nominations for the 2019 Engagement and Enterprise Awards, showcasing outstanding contributions to pPublic Engagement, Media Relations, Academic Innovation and Student Enterprise, we catch up with a previous finalist to find out, when there's so much else going on, why you should nominate yourself for the Awards.
Date added: Monday, November 5, 2018
Hidden maths: Talking numbers at the Science Museum
As the Science Museum prepares to celebrate ten years of Lates, Emily Pickett (Marketing and Communications Officer) shares her experience taking a team of students from Queen Mary’s School of Mathematical Sciences to August’s Lates to share the Maths behind magic tricks and a mysterious plastic computer.
Date added: Monday, September 24, 2018
Languages in our Lives
Devyani Sharma, Department of Linguistics, shares her experiences running Community workshops as part of the Languages in our Lives.
Date added: Monday, November 19, 2018
What do universities have to learn from Museums?
Our Public Engagement Officer, Katherine McAlpine, is part of the Museums Association Transformers scheme. Not a robot in disguise, but a changemaker. Below she reflects on her first day, and what universities might have to learn from museums.
Date added: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Arthritis in the CiTI
For Arthritis Awareness Week, we caught up with Annabelle Scott, Centre Manager for Centre for Inflammation and Therapeutic Innovation, about their Arthritis in the CiTI event, supported through our scheme.
Date added: Monday, October 8, 2018
How a group of school students discovered the sounds of solar storms
Date added: Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Finding a venue for your public engagement event
Digesting Science is a set of educational and interactive activities, run as an event, to explain multiple sclerosis to children aged 6-12. It was developed by the Barts-MS team at Queen Mary University. Below, they share their tips for finding a suitable venue for your event:
Date added: Monday, November 26, 2018
Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar
At the 2018 Engagement and Enterprise Awards, the International State Crime Initiative, School of Law, were awarded an Influence Public Engagement Award. The Influence Award recognises activity where research has been used to influence a shift in attitudes or the way that things are done, whether this be organisational change, influencing policy or how people think about a topic and their actions. We caught up with them to find out what winning meant to them.
Date added: Monday, November 12, 2018
Recharging your batteries at the Science Museum
As part of the Year of Engineering, Dr Ana Jorge Sobrido was given the opportunity to delivery na activity related to her research at the family festival We Are Engineers at the Science Museum London. Find out what they learnt below:
Date added: Monday, December 3, 2018
East London Speaks: East London Listens
East London Speaks : East London Listens was an event run by Amy Corcoran, a PhD student in the Law School, and funded by the ESRC as part of their Festival of Social Science. The festival aimed to bring social science research out of the academy and to new audiences. Amy used sound as a way of collecting and disseminating social science information to the public in a manner more accessible than academic reports, articles or conferences.
Date added: Tuesday, November 13, 2018
qLegal: free legal advice and the entrepreneurship community
qLegal is a law clinic based at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Its mission is to provide free legal advice to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses across the UK. Clemence Tanzi, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, explains how it works.
Date added: Monday, December 10, 2018
Being Human in Ice Age Hackney
As part of last month's Being Human Festival, Claire Harris and Rob Davis, School of Geography, ran family workshops at Hackney Museum. Find out what they learnt-including the importance of a lie in!
Date added: Monday, December 17, 2018
The joy of mobile cinemas: Screening PILI in rural Tanzania
Engagement and Enterprise Awards Winner Sophie Harman shares her work producing PILI, a film capturing the real stories behind her research into women living with AIDS/HIV in Africa involving real women living with the condition itself.
Date added: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The Matter of Objects: Putting on an Interdisciplinary Exhibition
The Matter of Objects exhibition brought together artists and history students to create a public exhibition exploring the meaning of objects. In their second blog post the organisers discuss bringing the collaborators together and holding the exhibition for the public.
Date added: Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Matter of Objects: Setting up a collaborative exhibition
The Matter of Objects exhibition brought together artists and history students to create a public exhibition exploring the meaning of objects. In their first blog post the organisers discuss their motivations and how they brought the exhibition together.
Date added: Thursday, April 6, 2017
Are we in Control? Giving Back Control to Audiences in Public Debates
Public debates are a common means of communicating research, but what goes into these events and how can they be designed to encourage audience engagement? Magda Osman has been involved in the set up and delivery of these panels and shares her insights.
Date added: Thursday, March 23, 2017
The Potential of Collaboration between the Arts and Research
Cathy McIlwaine has collaborated with arts organisations and performance as part of her research into Latin American communities in the UK. Here she discusses how these collaborations can enhance the arts and research while encouraging positive social change.
Date added: Thursday, May 4, 2017
Subjectivity: The Next Challenge for Evidence-Based Policymaking?
Towards the end of last year Helen McCarthy organised a symposium discussing how humanities and social science scholars can contribute to policy making. Her post summarises these conversations and assesses methods for ensuring subjective experience is considered by policymakers.
Date added: Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Discovering Knowledge Traditions through Co-Creation: Learning from and with Communities
Date added: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Capturing Emotional Responses to Music at Barts Pathology Museum
Date added: Thursday, November 10, 2016
Lived Experience Researchers: Involving Patients and Carers in Research Pt II
Date added: Friday, February 5, 2016
Find Funding for Public Engagement Projects this Spring: Funding Round-up
Date added: Thursday, March 31, 2016
How We Read - Running a successful exhibition on assisted reading technologies
Date added: Friday, March 4, 2016
Ragged Children, Mended Lives: Unearthing Histories of Poverty and Philanthropy for a 21st-Century Audience
Date added: Friday, February 26, 2016
Find Funding for Public Engagement Projects this Summer: Funding Round-up
Date added: Friday, July 29, 2016
Lived Experience Researchers: Involving Patients and Carers in Research
Date added: Friday, January 15, 2016
CanBuild: Lessons from the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Date added: Monday, September 26, 2016
What Goes into Running a Poetry Festival: Globe Road Festival and Engaging New Audiences with Poetry
Date added: Thursday, October 6, 2016
Project Spotlight: Engaging Communities, Saving Bees - Using workshops and virtual engagement to change behaviours
Date added: Friday, March 11, 2016
Community Feeling and Festival Fun at the Tower Hamlets Festival of Communities Fun-Day
Date added: Friday, May 27, 2016
Travelling Vicariously – Child Migrant Journeys
The Child Migrant Stories project captures the stories of former child migrants as told by them. Eithne Nightingale conceived the project and in her guest post dicusses the journey it's taken her on, how it links to her research and how others can contribute.
Date added: Friday, March 25, 2016
BCI STARS, a great way to deliver and to teach science communication
Date added: Friday, April 8, 2016
What it's like to be part of I'm a Scientist, get me out of Here - hints, tips and experiences
Date added: Friday, July 15, 2016
The purpose of universities – reflections on Going Global and the CPE networking event
Date added: Friday, June 5, 2015
Engage 2015 – Reframing impact and strengthening relationships
Date added: Friday, December 18, 2015
Filling a CUPP – Starting Programmes of Community University Partnership
Date added: Friday, April 24, 2015