Description: Why is YouTube popular? Because people love watching videos. A research video can be a great way to get your message across to your collaborators, your friends, and the wider world as well as being a condition of some funding bodies. But it isn't easy to do well - and this is where this […]
This year the event will be held at the ACT Centre throughout the day and there will be a manned stand that will have smart boards whereby people can write messages of support or anything relating to the Rare Disease Day. Please contact Nina Rieck (nr423@medschl.cam.ac.uk) if you are willing to help during the day […]
Description: This workshop, led by Understanding Animal Research, outlines the Concordat on Openness on Animal Research and provides advice and practical information on how best to talk about the use of animals in your research. Target audience: GSLS PhD students and post-docs Duration: 2.5 hours Sessions: Number of sessions: 1 Date Time Venue Trainer Tue […]
Description: This day-long training course consists of a mixture of taught and interactive practical elements intended to show participants how to get the best out of Twitter for research purposes. Please note that this course requires you to have an existing working knowledge of Twitter. In order to apply you must fill in an application […]
The University of Cambridge is now a member of The Conversation, a website that brings together ‘academic rigour and journalistic flair’. The Conversation has already published dozens of articles from Cambridge academics on subjects as diverse as bilingualism, monsters, earthquakes and sperm. Each of these stories is written by an academic and edited by The Conversation […]
The overall aim is to help frame the many and varied reasons for getting involved in PE, understand different types of audiences, and how to go about making science accessible and relevant for these audiences. It will help develop skills and identify different opportunities to use them. It will be an all-day session […]
The Cambridgeshire Branch of the British Science Association are running a public debate on Genome Data Privacy, “The Secrets of Your Genome”, on 7 June from 6-8.30 pm at Hill’s Road Sixth Form College (Science Lecture Room). The purpose of this question-style debate is to increase public awareness of current practices in genomics, discuss how […]
Date: Monday 20 June 2016, 18:00 - 20:00 Type of event: Talk/lecture/debate/Q&A Audience: Adults Venue Name: TBC Location: Cambridge Description: A public debate in which MRC scientists outline some of the many factors that can lead to weight gain, and discuss why obesity is so bad for our health. The event will build in plenty of time for questions and discussion. Booking […]
As part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research, CEDAR and the MRC Epidemiology Unit present: Are you in a healthy place? Travel, food and our neighbourhoods Wednesday 22 June 2016, 5.30pm – 7.30pm. University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge CB2 1RU The places where we live, study and work shape our behaviours and health. But […]
A huge thanks to our panelists and audience who made this event a great success! " It was a delightful evening in which I learnt a lot" "An enjoyable interactive interesting evening, in a lovely setting with nice food. Can't get better than that!" "... great to have the opportunity to talk to the speakers afterwards" […]
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