[Academic] Up-coming public engagement events

[Paul Griffin]

Hi all,

As a department we currently have a large number of excellent public engagement activities. Much of this is being done on personal time, as well as being organised through personal connections. This work is essential for a large number of reasons, not least being real impact to schools and children in the wider Glasgow area. However, the current method relies very heavily on individual people and the frequently duplication of efforts. I think that there are some easy ways where we can enhance our current efforts and reduce the amount of effort from any one person

One vision is that we have a set of kit with easy-to-follow user manuals, presentations, videos, how-to’s for schools, etc., …  To get on the way towards this I would like to start capturing the range of activities, information, and resources. As a start, I would be like to sit down with some people from each research division to get an overview of what is going on and how we can build on this without an extra workload.

As action points,

  *   If you are interested in keeping up to date on outreach/engagement activities then please sign up to the publicengagement at phys.strath.ac.uk<mailto:publicengagement at phys.strath.ac.uk> mailing list
     *   https://phys.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/publicengagement
  *   If you want to actively engage then drop me an email.


Back to the present – over the next two months we have the following visits to the Department by high-school students and events. If anyone would like to be involved then do let me know.


  *   9th May
     *   Event: Visit by St Margaret’s High School
     *   Hosting two groups: 1.25pm to 2.10pm and 2.20pm to 3.05pm
     *   Require:
        *    Hands-on exhibits


  *   6th June
     *   Event: Senior phase induction day
     *   S5/S6 students
     *   Require:
        *   students available to chat
        *   Introduction to undergrad physics curriculum
        *   hands-on labs


  *   12th June
     *   Event: Science at Strathclyde
     *   40 S2/S3 students from eight local schools will be attending
     *   Require:
        *    Hosts
        *   Hands-on exhibits


  *   12th – 16th June
     *   Event: Curiosity Live at Glasgow Science Centre
     *   https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/discover/family-events/curiosity-live
     *   Require:
        *   table-top activities
        *   workshops

Kind regards,
Griff


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        Dr. Paul F. Griffin
        Department of Physics
        University of Strathclyde
        Glasgow G4 0NG
           phone : 0141-548-5813
           email : paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk<mailto:paul.griffin at strath.ac.uk>
           web : http://photonics.phys.strath.ac.uk