Famelab is a chance for researchers to compete at explaining a scientific concept to a public audience in just 3 minutes. The Manchester heats are taking place this Thursday 20th November at MOSI, and you can register any time up to just turning up on the day. Finalists will be invited to the Cheltenham Science Festival next year.
You can see this year’s winner Pádraic Flood talking about photosynthesis on the Famelab youtube channel for inspiration.
As part of a Future First initiative, I was kindly invited to give a lunchtime careers talk at St Benedict’s Catholic Upper School in Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk, of which I am an alumnus. Students from Year 10, Year 11 and the Sixth Form attended my talk on “Careers in Environmental Science”. I took them […]
During the summer, members of the Geomicro research group took our ‘Life at the Extremes’ learning experience to Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank, where festival goers have the opportunity to explore the realms of music, science, art and culture. Here is a link to a review that Dr Naji Bassil has written for the Microbe […]
In the centre of Manchester, a café turned bar for the night was the setting for the recreation of the death of the dinosaurs, a sobering tale of retreating glaciers, and an exciting insight into the world of microorganisms. This was Manchester’s latest edition of a ‘Pint of Science’, where members of the public gather […]
On Saturday 16th June 2018, the University of Manchester hosted its annual Community festival. This was a fun filled event where we show cased all of our exciting research to the local community. A team of people from the Geomicrobiology research group ran a ‘Life at the Extremes’ stall located in Manchester museum. Earth is […]