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This course, offered by the University of Cambridge Institute of Continue Education, aims to familiarise you with the value and purposes of popular science writing, and help you explore a range of techniques and styles and develop your skills for writing about science.
MPLS Impact Awards 2021: call for nominations, deadline soon - 28 April
Public Engagement - awards
The annual MPLS Impact Awards, which includes a Public Engagement with Research category, aims to foster and raise awareness of impact by rewarding it at a local level, and preparing the ground for the impact case studies that will be needed for future REF and similar exercises. Nomination of researchers at all career stages are welcomed.
Institute of Physics Awards open for nominations, deadline 23 April
Public Engagement - awards
The Institute of Physics offers a range of medals for researchers at different career stages - including for education, outreach and engagement.
Royal Society Medals and Awards: nominations open, deadline 15 Feb
Public Engagement - awards
The Royal Society's prestigious annual awards and medals are now open for nominations. Awards require a nominator.
Congratulations to Dr Becky Smethurst - awarded IoPs Mary Somerville Medal
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Dr Becky Smethurst (Department of Physics) has been awarded the Mary Somerville Medal for exceptional early career contributions to public engagement within physics in recognition of the success of her YouTube channel, Dr Becky.
Science communication during a pandemic: is science writing the solution? Nov 3, 6-7pm GMT
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This free event, Is science writing the solution?, is a panel discussion hosted by Professor Alice Roberts which will be followed by the announcement of the winner of the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.
British Science Association Award Lectures, deadline 3 December
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Every year the British Science Association asks for applications for the seven Award Lectureships available to early career academics who are skilled at engaging people with their research. These Award Lectures aim to promote open and informed discussion of science and related disciplines.
EPSRC Digital economy telling tales of engagement competition, deadline 16 Dec
Public Engagement - awards Public Engagement - funding
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under the UK Research and Innovation digital economy theme, invites submissions for its digital economy telling tales of engagement competition, which aims capture the wider impact of digital economy research and to provide researchers with the opportunity to tell their story of research impact in an interesting and engaging way to a wider audience.
British Educational Research Association Public Engagement and Impact Award, deadline 2 Oct 2020
Public Engagement - awards
This recognises the impact of research and practice in the education community and how they have demonstrably engaged the public. Two awards worth £500 each are available.
Royal College of Psychiatrists Morris Markowe public engagement prize, deadline 1 Oct 2020
Public Engagement - awards
The Royal College of Psychiatrists invites entries for the Morris Markowe public engagement prize, which recognises an article on a psychiatric topic aimed at the wider, non-specialist public. There is a cash prize of £1,000.
European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Public Engagement Award, deadline 20 Oct 2020
Public Engagement - awards
The European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy invites nominations for its public engagement award, which recognises activities that have engaged the public in gene and cell therapy research. There's a cash prize of €500 and complimentary registration to their annual congress.
Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund 2019/20 - project list now available
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The list of project summaries for this year's PER Seed Fund projects are now available - 23 projects were funded in total, seven from MPLS researchers. Take a look, for inspiration and ideas.
Vice Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Award winners 2019 announced
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In a glitzy awards ceremony in a packed lecture theatre in Keble College, the winners of the VC PER Awards were announced - featuring two awards for MPLS researchers - and three more highly commended awards.
Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund 2018/19 - project list now available
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The list of project summaries for this year's PER Seed Fund projects are now available - 12 projects were funded in total, three from MPLS researchers. Take a look, for inspiration and ideas.
Dr Sam Henry awarded MPLS Impact Award for Public Engagement with Research
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Dr Sam Henry (Dept of Physics) has won the MPLS Impact Award in the Public Engagement with Research Category. You can find out more about some of his public engagement work in this video.
Dr Holly Reeve appointed MPLS BSA Media Fellow
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Dr Holly Reeve, Project Manager and Co-Investigator of the HydRegen project (Department of Chemistry), has been awarded the MPLS British Science Association Media Fellowship and will be working at the Mirror this July.
MPLS Impact Awards Announced
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This year MPLS has honoured 11 researchers from across the Division for their impactful work, including for public engagement with research. The awards were announced at the MPLS Winter Party.
Public Engagement with Research - Funded projects list now available
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The list of project summaries for this year's PER Seed Fund projects are now available - 12 projects were funded in total, three from MPLS researchers. Take a look, for inspiration and ideas.
Vice Chancellor's Awards for Public Engagement with Research 2017
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Find out more about the winning entries from MPLS for these University-wide awards