Bloomsbury Festival – Get involved
This year’s theme is ‘Small Steps and Giant Leaps’
Discuss any event ideas with the Public Engagement Team.
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Bloomsbury Festival – Birkbeck reflection
Ana Maria Portugal, final year PhD student at the Birkbeck Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) and its affiliated TABLET Project, writes about the Bloomsbury Festival workshop she developed with the Birkbeck Public Engagement Team to get families thinking about screen time.
Einstein’s Garden at Green Man Festival
Einstein’s Garden fuses together performance, art, music and public engagement with research and brings science and the environment to life in fun and unusual ways. They are on the lookout for research groups and scientific organisations that would like to bring a stall to Einstein’s Garden with the aim of engaging festival audiences with science. Stalls can explore fundamental scientific ideas or phenomena, the process of science or current scientific research. It is essential that stalls include as much interactivity and participation as possible for festival goers and that they embody the creative and playful spirit of Einstein’s Garden.
Deadline for applications: Monday 15th April 2019
Speak or perform at New Scientist Live
Do you have an amazing talk, performance or workshop that you would like to be included in the New Scientist Live 2019 programme? They welcome all submissions that will excite, entertain and educate our audience of highly engaged science and technology lovers, particularly those related to the fields of technology and engineering.
Inspire Fund – Alzheimer’s Research UK
F
unding for innovative projects that engage the public with dementia and the life-changing research going on into the condition.
Three tiers of funding, going up to £30,000
Deadline: 31 May 2019
Celebrate award winning Public Engagement at Birkbeck
Join us at Birkbeck’s Public Engagement Awards on Tuesday 26 March to celebrate projects with a public engagement focus from across the College. There will be drinks, nibbles and a chance to network after the ceremony.
Apply to speak at Soapbox Science 2019
Are you a woman who works in science who is passionate about your research? Are you eager to talk to the public about your work in a fun, informal setting? Apply for an event in London, Brighton, Reading or further afield!
Wellcome Public Engagement Fund
This fund enables organisations to use creative approaches in engaging the public with health research.
Level of funding: £25,000 to £3 million
Duration of funding:Up to 3 years
Upcoming deadlines: 26 March, 9 July 2019
School Partnership Grants – Royal Society
Do you have a great idea for bringing research alive in school? The Partnership Grants scheme offers up to £3000 to UK schools or colleges to buy equipment to run a STEM investigation project in partnership with a STEM professional.
Deadline for applications 28 February 2019
Science & Technology Facilities Council – Public Engagement Funding
A range of grant schemes support the STFC public engagement strategy.
Open schemes:
– Leadership Fellows in Public Engagement
– Public Engagement Legacy Awards – open until 20 February 2019
– Leadership Fellows in Public Engagement – open until 21 February 2019
– Public Engagement Spark Awards – opens on 14th March
– Public Engagement Reaction Awards – open call