Today is World Cancer Day and I’d be very grateful if you could all please spread the word about cancer research at Birmingham by sharing this animation.
Author: colesresearchblog
University of Birmingham lunchtime lectures at the Library of Birmingham
From the NHS to Bangladesh, join the University of Birmingham at the Library of Birmingham to explore cultures from wide-ranging perspectives.
FREE EVENTS – book here
- Biological Cultures, 12 March
- Shakespeare’s Global Communities, 18 March
- Culture of Complaint, 19 March
- Migration, Nutrition & Aging in UK Bangladeshi Families, 26 March
Public Engagement with Postgraduate Education
27th February 2014 University of Surrey
Public Engagement is a growth area in Higher Education with Research Councils including it as recommended good practice and many institutions considering what it means to be an ‘engaged University’. It is also an activity that many PGRs would like to get involved with. The concept of engagement is rapidly evolving from speaking to school children to participating in festivals, and from testing out research findings on users to actively involving ‘the public’ in research design. Not only is the variety of activity becoming more adventurous but, as the concept grows, the range of possibilities for engagement is expanding – the key question is how should students and their supervisors respond to this?
Arts & Science Festival
Arts & Science Festival will return for its second year in 2014. Running Monday 17 – Friday 21 March 2014 and themed ‘Life & Death’, the festival will be a free programme showcasing culture, research and collaboration at the University through talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops and screenings.
The Cultural Engagement team is currently inviting departments across campus to submit events – these may be events already scheduled to happen, or events developed and realized especially for the festival. All submissions will be marketed as part of the festival programme, and included in online listings and printed publicity.
THINK CORNER
March 22 – April 20, 2014
Think Corner is a ground-breaking public engagement project which will take research out of the confines of campus and instead showcase it directly within the local community for a period of one whole month. Think Corner will be a ‘pop-up’ shop in the city centre that will provide a space for the research community to engage the public of Birmingham in a two-way dialogue about research: encouraging discussion about the value and importance of University of Birmingham research and the roles that the public have to play in benefiting from or helping shape this research.
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