Piece by Derren Cresswell, ENCOMPASS Research Fellow As we waited for the primary school children to finish up their session in the education room, it was clear that the network that is being created by the ENCOMPASS project was well under way. People introduced themselves as they filled out name tags and chatted about bits of public … Continue reading “PERspectives: ENCOMPASS – Notes from the project kick-off meeting”
Month: January 2018
PERspectives: Encounters in Art and Science at Think Corner, Helsinki
Piece written by: Melissa Grant, Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham I recently had the pleasure of visiting Think Corner (or Tiede Kulma in Finnish*) in Helsinki for the launch of the Encounters Across Art and Science events courtesy of the Finnish Bioart Society. The idea for the … Continue reading “PERspectives: Encounters in Art and Science at Think Corner, Helsinki”
PER case studies: Fossil Forensics – UnEarthed 2017
Written by Jonathan Hall Earth Science PhD students Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson, and MSc Applied and Petroleum Micropalaeontology graduate Rebecca Walley travelled to Edinburgh in mid-November (17-20th) to showcase Fossil Forensics at the Natural Environmental Research Councils’s (NERC) annual science public engagement event, this year titled UnEarthed. Fossil Forensic team members: Rebecca Walley, Jonathan Hall and Jack Richardson Created by … Continue reading “PER case studies: Fossil Forensics – UnEarthed 2017”