Policy briefs exploring the impact of COVID-19 on people and the planet have been published by researchers from UWE Bristol’s ...
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By Dr Margarida Sardo Homes Under the Microscope (HOMEs) is a multidisciplinary project that brings scientists, participants and the textile ...
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by Mic Palmer A Youth Climate Café that took place in St Marks Church in Easton in April 2022 invited ...
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Today marks the launch of a new year-long programme that aims to inspire and motivate young people in the West ...
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A toolkit and training for effective youth climate comms and social action UWE Bristol’s Science Communication Unit (SCU) is launching ...
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I never thought that my professional life would change in the way it has over the last three years. Nor ...
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Sophie Pavelle I never knew what I wanted to be – except that any career for me had to have ...
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Finishing our MSc in Science Communication and graduating during a pandemic and national lockdowns was not how any of us ...
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By Gracie Allen, part of the Avon Schools Eco Network Over half term, Tillie, Ellie and I represented Avon schools ...
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WeCount was a two-year Horizon 2020 project which aimed to quantify local road transport, produce scientific knowledge in the field ...
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Photo credit: Paul Wilkinson Photography Margarida Sardo, Hannah Little and Laura Fogg Rogers conducted research to explore strengths and opportunities for improving the ...
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On 24th February, 12 young people, aged 15-24, headed to UWE Bristol’s Prototype and Play Lab, in the School of ...
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Science Hunters has been engaging children with the computer game Minecraft since 2014. Originally initiated at Lancaster University, the programme ...
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I grew up by the sea, with generations of my family making a living from our waters – it’s in ...
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Robin Ince is now renowned as “the science guy” of comedy. From The Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4, ...
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This blog post is part of an exhibit for Engage Conference 2021. “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here” ...
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Speeding cars, traffic jams, air pollution… these are but a few of the grievances the average city dweller contends with ...
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A new Minecraft programme featuring iconic Bristol and Bath landmarks is allowing children to digitally engineer the West of England, ...
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STEM @ Baggator is a community STEM club for young people in Easton that takes place after school on Mondays ...
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Based in the Science Communication Unit and Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics at UWE Bristol and organised by Dr ...
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In science communication, we often talk about science capital: the concept of feeling like science is “for me” as a ...
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Margarida Sardo and Sophie Laggan WeCount is a citizen science research project funded by the H2020 SwafS-programme and aims to ...
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This post was originally published on the Engineering our Future and Curiosity Connections blogs. Neurodiversity Week (15-21 March 2021) celebrates ...
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When children are asked what an engineer is, and what they look like, it can often be a tricky question ...
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By Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers We’re living through a Climate and Ecological Emergency and we urgently need to reduce carbon emissions ...
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Kassie at NASA Ames in front of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) My name is Kassie. I’m a ...
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This blog post was originally included in Transforming Society published by Bristol University Press and Policy Press, on 12th November ...
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I recently had the opportunity to produce a documentary about the concerning shortage of early career pollinator taxonomists in Europe ...
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Photo credit: Marten Newhall, Unsplash Words: Andy Ridgway When I started teaching science writing after spending years as a journalist, ...
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Introduction These are some of the questions that have emerged through Kitchen Cultures, a project that has been developed with ...
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The Science Communication Unit’s Dr Emma Weitkamp recently participated in an online discussion about the state of science communication as ...
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Building to Break Barriers is a new outreach project that aims to engage children from under-represented groups with engineering, using ...
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Photo credit: Pxhere.com Words: Andy Ridgway It’s a central theme to any science communication training – to communicate science effectively ...
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Fire engine at the Bristol Robotics Lab after a focus group session with local firefighters I remember this story as ...
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With just ten years left to change our carbon intensive lifestyles to mitigate climate chaos, urgent decisions need to be ...
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Words: Andy Ridgway Why do those who blog, tweet, run events at festivals, give talks and engage in all the ...
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Walking around the Frenchay campus at UWE Bristol is an intriguing experience. Wander down one corridor and you find yourself ...
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The inside of the human body, and all its organs, cells and molecules can be tricky to visualise, and that ...
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Contact tracing apps are just one measure governments have been using in their attempts to contain the current coronavirus outbreak ...
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Adam Milner's Late Night Space Force, 31 October 2019 - 26 Jan 2020, Everson Museum of Art. This blog post ...
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This year, the Science Communication Unit at UWE Bristol is able to offer a bursary which will part-fund a place ...
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Have you ever considered researching corporate misbehaviour? I hadn’t either until October when, just after I had started my MSc, ...
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I’m a junior assistant professor at Utrecht University, which means I split my time 50/50 between teaching and PhD research ...
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Air quality and traffic congestion are among the main causes of poor urban living and have sparked rising concerns about ...
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MSc in Science Communication student, Chloe Russell, describes their recent visit to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery as part of ...
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The number of people writing, tweeting, instagramming, blogging, podcasting, vlogging about all things science is unfathomably large. Then there’s the ...
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By Danni Sinnett (Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments) and Margarida Sardo (Science Communication Unit). There are around 5,000 former ...
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A team of Science Communication Unit researchers was selected by the Royal Institution (Ri) to explore ways to continue modernising ...
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On 21st June UWE Bristol welcomed over 100 science-communication practitioners from the South West, the culmination of over five months ...
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During my undergraduate degree in biochemistry I spent a year studying abroad in Grenoble in the French Alps. I studied ...
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Author: Karen Collins (MSc Science Communication student at UWE Bristol) What language can we use to create inclusive environments in ...
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Author: Ola Michalec @Ola_Michalec The Sci Comm South West Conference 2019 attracted over 100 practitioners and researchers based across the ...
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Studying part-time and working full-time is challenging to say the least. But now that I’ve finished, I can honestly say ...
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Author: Ola Michalec @Ola_Michalec The ‘F’ word we should learn to say loudly and clearly, without embarrassment: funding. As an ...
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Palaeontology – the study of past life – is a key element of understanding biology, changes in life over time ...
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Author: Mollie Atherton (MSc Science Communication student at UWE Bristol) I've never decided the fate of a large slice of ...
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On 21st June, UWE Bristol's Science Communication Unit welcomed over 100 delegates to X Block on UWE Bristol's Frenchay campus ...
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At the height of the recession in 2008, deciding what to study at university took me a lot longer than ...
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I knew Science Communications was for me when I was doing my undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and preferred talking ...
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It was about six months into my research fellowship when it dawned on me that my real fascination was research ...
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Us south-western folk have much to be proud of. From Cornwall’s glistening beaches and Dartmoor’s breathtaking expanses, through to Bristol’s ...
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When deciding where to study a Master’s degree, employability was a huge factor for me. I was keen to study ...
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The words on the screen are drifting in and out of focus... lithium-ion and sodium-ion, redox flow and redox couples… ...
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You hear a lot of advice from people when you are thinking of setting up a podcast. People have all ...
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Photo credit: Ellie Shipman Ellie Shipman The Shape Our City research project and consultation offers a new way to engage ...
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As 2018 draws to a close, it’s over 15 years since we launched our first postgraduate programme in Science Communication ...
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The early part of the summer of 2018 saw the UK facing a heatwave and a lack of rain affecting ...
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The winner of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) 2018 Max Perutz Science Writing Competition has been announced. The competition, now ...
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A new UWE project is working with artists and community organisations to creatively engage the public on issues around healthy ...
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When it comes to food, music and fashion, the interesting stuff often emerges at the interfaces between styles and cultures ...
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If you were an engineer, what would you do? 2712 children from across the South West answered this question with ...
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Living in cities impacts on our health and the health of the planet. If you were able to develop your ...
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May and June saw staff and students from the Science Communication Unit prepare for the Bristol and Bath Festival of ...
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The Christmas Lectures are an internationally known landmark of the Science Communication landscape, and we refer to it in our ...
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Engineering our Future (this article first appeared on the Engineering our Future blog at UWE) Only 11% of engineers in the ...
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Saturday 30th June 2018, 10am – 4pm UWE Bristol Exhibition and Conference Centre, North Entrance, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 ...
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The Children as Engineers project led by Laura Fogg-Rogers from the Science Communication Unit at UWE Bristol has won a ...
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By Tay Aziz and Sophie Pavelle This time last year during our MSc Science Communication at UWE Bristol, we were ...
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If you are, or have around you, a fan of Star Wars, you will have heard about the controversy over ...
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Margarida Sardo and Danielle Sinnett Dr Danielle Sinnett (Architecture and the Built Environment) and Dr Margarida Sardo (Science Communication Unit) ...
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The Science Communication Unit supported three successful bids to the British Council to participate in their Science in Schools initiative. Alongside ...
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I am not a scientist. There, I said it. But I am a science communicator. A couple of decades ago, ...
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Sometimes I am amazed at how life just seems to fit seamlessly into place. You have to take a step ...
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Standing behind the counter of Cheltenham Library one Saturday, a colleague beamed at me “Let’s do a Fun Palace”. I ...
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Clare Wilkinson During our MSc Science Communication at UWE Bristol we focus a lot of effort on supporting students to ...
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My name is Hannah Little. I’m a new lecturer at the Science Communication Unit. I will be teaching Science Communication ...
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In July, I travelled to the Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne for the BIG Event – an annual ...
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The ‘leaky pipeline’ has been in the press again thanks to the now infamous Google staff memo  and the BBC2 ...
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Undergraduate student engineers at UWE Bristol will get the chance to learn about engineering citizenship from September. The Science Communication ...
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Every two years, the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) hosts its one-day Science Journalism Summer School. The 2017 event ...
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After Cristina Rigutto’s informative seminar on post-publication digital engagement, we asked for her advice about blogging and how to increase ...
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Last month, Cristina Rigutto (communications consultant and social media editor at Public Understanding of Science Journal) came to speak to us, as part ...
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After my PhD viva in 2004, I promised myself I’d never again study for a qualification. Having gone straight from ...
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Writing is easy until you learn how to do it. I still remember my first weeks as a trainee journalist ...
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Watching scientists pitching their research projects felt like being in an episode of Dragons’ Den. I sat among a group ...
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Our Science Communication Masterclass has been running very successfully for quite a few years now and like my colleagues, I’ve had ...
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This year, I have been lucky enough to receive a FET Award to promote STEM at a local primary school ...
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In a recent book review for JCOM, I outlined a few of the ethical, social and legal issues that make ...
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Since May 2016, the Science Communication Unit has been involved with a four year, Europe-wide research project ClairCity. Laura Fogg ...
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Images and videos are pervasive online, these days, web articles include at least one image or video. On Twitter, Facebook ...
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2017 marks the ten-year anniversary since I started working on the Talking Robots project with my former SCU colleagues Karen ...
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Last week we posted details of our work on environmental policy publications as well as our research on outreach and ...
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The last 6 months have been a busy time for the Unit, we are now fully in the swing of ...
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Corra Boushel Through funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and internal backing, the Science Communication Unit has ...
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Emma Weitkamp & Erik Stengler September saw the lecturing staff at the Science Communication Unit welcoming our new MSc Science ...
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What IS storytelling? What IS NOT storytelling? These two questions opened the 9th conference on “Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative” ...
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How do you get your first job in science communication? That’s not a straightforward question to answer – when it ...
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How we make choices as consumers, patients, parents and members of the public has, of course, long been of interest ...
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SCU was well represented at the Bristol Festival of Nature (BFON) in June, with Associate Professor Emma Weitkamp manning the ...
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As part of our MSc in Science Communication students have the option to choose a Broadcasting Science module (‘Science on ...
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Clare Wilkinson and Emma Weitkamp are Associate Professors based at the Science Communication Unit, University of the West of England, ...
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What do robots have to do with ethics? And how do you end up with the job of "roboethicist"? Prof ...
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Lots of people are interested to find out what our Masters in Science Communication and Postgraduate Certificate in Practical Science ...
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It's been a busy few weeks in the office getting ready for the UWE Bristol SCU Science Writing Competition 2016 ...
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Corra Boushel is a project coordinator at the SCU. A recent experience with an organisation I won’t name left me ...
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 What happens when social scientists and natural scientists start to work together? Clare Wilkinson summarises her recent research. As a ...
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Text by Andy Ridgway, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, images by Marta Palau Franco, euRathlon project manager. “Artists love this ...
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Science fiction and fantasy films like Star Wars, The Hunger Games and Interstellar are hugely popular, with a reach for ...
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Clare Wilkinson explains some of the programmes that UWE Bristol offers in Science Communication, and how coming back to school ...
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In 2013, just as I was finishing my Masters in Science Communication at UWE Bristol, I was asked to help ...
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I am writing on the flight that takes me to a conference in Warsaw, which will nicely draw to a ...
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On Friday 25th September 2015 Bristol was one of the many European cities celebrating research and researchers. The European Researchers’ Night ...
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One of the nice things we’re able to do from time to time is offer our Masters students work experience ...
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Put two robotics researchers in a small room with a bad tempered snake, 30 children and a zoologist. And make ...
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Research shows that audiences at a health science festival prefer lectures. We all know the debates about deficit versus dialogue, ...
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Hello new readers and welcome to the first post of the Science Communication Unit Blog. If you don’t know much ...
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