From Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Jan 11 17:01:32 2019 From: Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk (Madalina Stalniceanu) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:01:32 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] Wellcome Engagement Fellowships In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, You might be interested in Wellcome's Engagement Fellowships which develop emerging leaders from a range of backgrounds so they can engage the public with health research. More information is available on their website at https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/engagement-fellowships. You can have a look at previous fellows as well to get an idea of what others have done via this scheme. The application form can be found on the grant management system (Public Engagement Fellowships - full application). You will need to register on the system to be able to access the form. The deadline for the application is 7 February 2019. If you have any questions about the process, please contact grants at wellcome.ac.uk. Best wishes, Madalina M?d?lina St?lniceanu Policy and Public Affairs Coordinator Institute for Policy and Engagement A21 Highfield House University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Alex.Miles at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Jan 28 13:02:42 2019 From: Alex.Miles at nottingham.ac.uk (Alex Miles) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:02:42 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] FW: Public Engagement & Performance Conference 29th & 30th March 2019 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Interesting? Alex Miles Director of Global and Political Affairs Chair, CASE Europe Annual Conference 2018-20 Submit evidence to the Civic University Commission?. External Relations, Pope Building University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD t: +44 (0) 7917115197 | w: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/government-relations Twitter: @alextomiles WeChat ID: alextomiles85 Executive Support: Jo Knights joanne.knights at nottingham.ac.uk [cid:image001.jpg at 01D3C7A4.1C9F6B10] From: Public Engagement Network On Behalf Of Kitrina Douglas Sent: 28 January 2019 12:08 To: NCCPE-PEN at JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Public Engagement & Performance Conference 29th & 30th March 2019 This morning on BBC Radio 4 ?Start the week? Elizabeth Pisani, Visiting Senior Research Fellow King?s College London, said: "You sometimes think this whole public engagement with science through arts or whatever is like, Ugh! Really? Is that a good use of my time?" At the public engagement and performance conference we think it is vital (to the ongoing impact of research) for the public to access, understand and engage with our work. It is, after all, the public who fund, use, and/or participate in research. Vital, therefore, to our ongoing public engagement work is the need for both artists and scientists to understand and appreciate each others contribution to public understanding, those the wider communities we serve. The Public Engagement and Performance Conference brings together creative, innovative practitioners and projects to offer illustrations, to provoke conversation, understanding, insight. Pisani went on to say: "But what you?ve just said calls to mind an example. I was working with a centre for infectious disease research in Vietnam and they had an artist in residence and I was talking to a senior scientist who works on pigs there. He said, ?I spoke to her and she was interesting, but I did think What?s the point?? Then I looked at her artwork and she?d made this gorgeous marble sculpture that was a crouched form, you could see the spine, and I looked at it and I thought, I can?t tell if that?s a pig or a human. Then I thought, If I were a bacteria, or an organ, I wouldn?t care either. And I thought that was really interesting ?cause we think of public engagement as, It?s a way of us explaining to them, the great unwashed, the unscientific, but sometimes engaging with artists can make youthink, Uh, yeah, maybe I should think about my work a bit differently. ?Start the week: The health of science? Monday 28 January 2019 BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00026ws [Screen Shot 2019-01-28 at 11.51.16.png] [Text Box: Call for Submissions 5th Public Engagement & Performance Conference The Hepworth, Wakefield, March 29th & 30th 2019] The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield Poised dramatically on the banks of the River Calder, the David Chipperfield designed Hepworth Gallery provides an inspirational backdrop to our 2019 Public Engagement & Performance Conference. The gallery was voted museum of the year in 2017 ahead of the Tate Modern due to its ?breath-taking? exhibitions and its contribution to contemporary sculpture. As such, we believe The Hepworth Wakefield provides an inspirational backdrop to bring into focus public engagement issues, challenges and potentialities. We hope you will be able to join us. Barbara Hepworthonce said that ?sculpture is the translation of meaning?. Making meaning and communicating research takes place across a landscape of possibilities. In a contemporary-media savvy world, how do researchers mine the possibilities and show impact? Our aims with the conference are: To bring together researchers (from across the arts, humanities and social sciences, STEM) who are at various stages of the research process, and with different expertise and experience. To inspire, support, develop, share and foster greater awareness around our social responsibility, research practices, to introduce delegates to different ways of answering their research questions, to forge collaborations, and all with an eye on making a difference in the world by engaging the public with research. Important though these ideas are, we also want to communicate through representations that are ethically sensitive, relevant, timely, creative and imaginative. There are a variety of ways to participate: 1. Share a conference paper or presentation 2. Deliver or take part in a workshop 3. Present a film/installation/performance 4. Watch, listen, learn, engage - there?s no requirement to present/perform Previous conferences have drawn delegates from Anthropology, Sociology, Sport & Exercise Science, Clinical Trials Research, Counselling & Psychotherapy, Dance, Drama, Education, Health & Social Change, Nursing, Medicine, Business Management and Marketing, and from the USA, Canada, South America, Australia, UK & Europe. Get a feel for the conference from delegates attending previous conferences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPRnQ0oTd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6-2xlZ828 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbC916GIY0 Submit an abstract http://engageyork2015.org.uk/submissions/ Additional information, enquiries or questions: info at engageyork2015.org.uk -- Recent publications Douglas, K., & Carless, C. (ifirst) The Long Run: A Story About Filmmaking as Qualitative Research. 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Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 145604 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Jan 29 10:26:52 2019 From: Madalina.Stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk (Madalina Stalniceanu) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:26:52 +0000 Subject: [Public-engagement] Nottingham version of the Periodic Table - Call for suggestions Message-ID: Dear all, The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate "one of the most significant achievements in science". To celebrate this scientific milestone the University of Nottingham has some exciting plans, including creating a Nottingham Periodic table featuring recognisable landmarks, sayings and people from the city. More details can be found in the press release below. Periodic Table celebrations will have Nottingham in its element The International year of the Periodic Table is launched today (Jan 29th) in Paris and the University of Nottingham has revealed some exciting plans to celebrate this scientific milestone, including creating a Nottingham Periodic table featuring recognisable landmarks, sayings and people from the city. Celebrating the 150thanniversary of the creation of the periodic table was an idea sparked by Sir Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham, he says: "Dmitrii Mendeleev's first publication of his Periodic Table was in 1869 and, a couple of years ago I casually suggested that the 150th anniversary might be a good opportunity for a global celebration of chemistry. The idea caught people's imagination and a bottom-up push was enough to ignite widespread enthusiasm and, with much effort from a number of people the idea became a reality. Approval by the UN and UNESCO was necessary to mobilize government support for national chemical societies across the globe. Now, with this support, chemists at all levels, of all nationalities, and of all ages are seizing the opportunity to put on a bewildering range of event to celebrate our most iconic scientific tool." Nottingham Periodic Table - have your say! To mark this important event the University of Nottingham is creating a Nottingham version of the Periodic Table and is asking people to help by providing their suggestions of Nottingham related replacements for the chemical elements. For example Fr - Friar Tuck, Pa - Paul Smith, Eu - 'Ey Up Mi Duck'. A form to send in suggestions can be found here. The completed Nottingham Periodic Table will be unveiled at this year's Wonder event on 15thJune which will also have a periodic table theme. Another highlight of the celebrations is a guest lecture from Russian nuclear physicist, Yuri Oganessian on 13th March, he is the only living person to have an element, Oganesson, named after him (No 118). Ordering the elements Mendeleev's Periodic Table was compiled on the basis of arranging the elements in ascending order of atomic weight, and grouping them by similarity of properties. He was also forward thinking enough to predict that other elements would be discovered in the future, leaving spaces in the table where he thought they might fit into the chemical framework. Over the years the Periodic Table has been used in many creative and fun ways to engage audiences with science and in 2008 Sir Martyn Poliakoff teamed up with video journalist Brady Haran to start the Periodic Table of Videos. Since the first video was posted the team has filmed experiments for most of the elements and regularly update the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. The hugely popular videos have made Sir Martyn and his team YouTube stars with millions of fans worldwide. Creative chemistry Sir Martyn is a special guest at the launch ceremony of the International Year of the Periodic Table at UNESCO in Paris where he will give the audience a peek inside his world with a visual tour of his office where the Periodic Table is on display in many forms, he said, "As well as being a fantastic learning and reference tool for scientists the Periodic Table has also become a powerful marketing tool and has been used to sell everything from Audi cars to Japanese popular music and I have many examples of this in my office! The Periodic Table is instantly recognizable by a large proportion of the population and it's wonderful that its importance is being recognised with this year-long celebration." Sir Martyn and the Periodic Videos team will be making some special videos for the Periodic Table of Videos and re-making some of the early elements. He says, "When we started making the Periodic Table of Videos all those years ago we could never have imagined just how popular it would be. Its ongoing popularity is very heartening to see as it proves that there is a huge appetite for learning about science and chemistry and now we have access to much better technology we want to re-shoot some of our early videos!" Story credits More information is available from Sir Martyn Poliakoff at the University of Nottingham on 0115 9513520 or Martyn.poliakoff at nottingham.ac.uk [Jane_60x60px] Jane Icke - Media Relations Manager (Faculty of Science) Email: jane.icke at nottingham.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)115 951 5751 Location: University Park Best wishes, Madalina M?d?lina St?lniceanu Policy and Public Affairs Coordinator C2 Pope Building Political & Public Affairs Unit External Relations University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD e: madalina.stalniceanu at nottingham.ac.uk [cid:image004.png at 01D4B7BD.25BA1100] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1923 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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