📢 We're pleased to share our Public Engagement Training offer for the Autumn semester at QMUL! We've got new sessions coming up on 'Building Equitable Partnerships', 'Evaluating Public Engagement' and Creative Methods for Youth-oriented research and more: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

Who are the publics in public history? Report from our recent staff-student project highlights issues around inclusion, marketisation and the politicisation of DEI @engageqm.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Small grant applications are open! 📢 If you're a QMUL staff member or student, apply today to receive up to £1k to fund your public engagement, community engagement, or PPI project. Applications close at 5pm, 31/10 Learn more and apply: bit.ly/CPESmallGrants

📆🧪 Just one week to go until our science fun day! 🧪📆

We're busy gearing up for Tower Hamlets South West Locality Summer Fun Day on 30 July! QMUL staff and students are hosting a range of free activities for local families, exploring everything from local air pollution data, to the structure of cells! 💚🔬⛹️🌞🌳

We're taking part in Open House Festival 2025! 🏠 On Sunday 14th September we'll be running two social history tours of our Mile End campus, led by @alastairhackney.bsky.social and Nadia Valman. Booking will open on 20th August ⚡ programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/1432

🔉 Calling all UK researchers and public engagement professionals 🔉 The Royal Society would like to hear your views and experience of public engagement through their Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers survey (deadline Monday 30th June). Complete the survey here: bit.ly/3HgpcAJ

Exciting news! 📢 QMUL is hosting an area at the Tower Hamlets Family Hubs Fun Day and the Centre of the Cell Science Fun Day! Join us by hosting your own stall or activity. Engage with local families, make a difference, and have fun! Sign up now 👉 www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

@friends-earth.bsky.social is hosting a free workshop in Tower Hamlets on 26 June, exploring the link between poverty, inequality & environmental injustice. 📍 East London Mosque 🕤 9.30am–1pm 🍵 Refreshments provided Just 30 spots—book early! 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

📅 ELRI (Early Life Research Institute) Sandpit Spark Session – Launch Event Date: 26th June 2025, 14:30 - 17:00 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/elri-sandp... This informal session is designed to help researchers get to know each other and share what they’re working on!

We had a fantastic weekend in the Science Big Top, part of the Discovery Zone, at Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to get hands-on with science. 🪐🔬🦠 #LCS25 #LambethCountryShow @qmulspcs.bsky.social

Deadline 9am tomorrow!

🌸 Flowers for Peace 🌸 It was great to be at Peopling the Palaces Festival this morning for a flower arranging workshop exploring the revolutionary power of flowers! Still lots of free festival events to come over the next couple of days! @peoplespalaceproj.bsky.social www.airsupplycollective.com

Calling all researchers and public engagement professionals: we want to find out the factors affecting public engagement in 2025, including opportunities, risks and barriers. Help shape the future of public engagement with STEM by taking our survey: www.research.net/r/RS_public_...

🏛️News from the CPE🏛️ We’re proud to share that Professor Kathryn Yusoff, recipient of a CPE Large Grant, is co-curator of Geology of Britannic Repair—the British Pavilion exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Learn more here: www.ft.com/content/eb76...

🎨Peopling the Palaces Festival returns with five-day celebration of resistance through art, performance and conversation🎭 4th-8th June 2025 Book your tickets now!: www.eventbrite.com/cc/peopling-...

We had a great time at the Soapbox Science event last Saturday in London's Southbank with @antorrisi.bsky.social ! Lots of cool science done and explained by women 💪 #womeninscience #soapboxscience2025 @when-in-science.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social soapboxscience.org/soapbox-scie...

Queen Mary College’s (@qmul.ac.uk) new Crittall windows — a feature of its Engineering Building Stage 2 development (designed by Playne and Lacey Architects) advertised in East London Papers, July 1965

A great postdoctoral Research Fellow post - please share!

🎟️Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival🎟️ When?: 24 June 2025, 10:30-3pm Where?: Derek Willoughby lecture theatre, William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square, QMUL See more at: www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/patient... Point of contact: [email protected]

Check out this great event by @niranjwrite.bsky.social supported by this year's CPE Small Grant round! There’s no pre-registration required for the event. Please note that seating will be on a first come basis, the venue also has some standing room.

Just a reminder that the Large Grants Scheme and the Participatory Research Scheme are now open for the 2025-26 academic year! Apply by the 6th of June! 👉🏼https://www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengagement/funding/

Join us for 'New perspectives on nineteenth-century childhoods', 1pm-8pm on Wednesday 4 June 2025 at the Ragged School Museum, London E3. Panel discussions followed by keynote lecture by Prof Josephine McDonagh (Chicago). Free, but booking essential: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

I put some links here into a neatly curated web page (then added more links as stuff came up in the event). If you're interested in science communication plus public engagement this / these may be useful peeecs.wordpress.com/links-for-jo... #scicomm

🐟New Blog post🐟 Jellyfish Photo Booth brought together QM academic, a food scientist, and a jellyfish aquaculturist to engage Darien’s working waterfront community about the fishery’s continuing resilience. Read more: bit.ly/4dmP3mv

🫀Heart-to-Heart 3🫀 Celebrate International Clinical Trials Day — Whose Trial Is It anyway? & Evening Conversations 🎟️Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heart-to-h...

🍻New Blog Post🍻 QMUL Pint of Science (@pintofscience.uk) returns to venues across London from 19 to 21 May, and tickets are now on sale! Find out more on our Engagement Blog: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

🚨 We’re hiring! Queen Mary’s Centre for Public Engagement is looking for a Strategic Engagement Officer (12-month FT, hybrid) to support comms & partnerships across our Engagement Teams. 🗓️ Apply by 21 May 📩 Contact: [email protected] Find out more: bit.ly/3SrnnmE

🌟 Meet our May Engagement Champion: Satvika Mishra! From leading inclusive outreach in STEM to empowering communities through sport and education, Satvika is a brilliant example of student-driven civic leadership 👏. Find our more: bit.ly/4aB4K8g

🚨 Applications for all Queen Mary staff and students still open! Want to showcase your research to thousands at New Scientist Live (18–20 Oct)? Hands-on, fun, and interactive? We want it. Deadline: 6th May Apply now: bit.ly/4240yK6

This year’s CPE Small Grants supported brilliant new engagement projects across Queen Mary. Read about two of them in our latest blogs: qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

Thank you to @englishforaction.bsky.social for inviting us to host a Big Mouth Conversation with your English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learners. We were so glad that we could capture your seldom-heard stories and ideas in the Big Mouth Tower Hamlets project funded by @engageqm.bsky.social.

CPE is offering two new training sessions this May, available to Queen Mary students and staff. Explore the sessions and book your spot on the CPD Training Platform! Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

Are you interested in engaging the public with University research or co-producing research with stakeholders outside the university? The Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) Large Grants and Participatory Research Fund Schemes are now open! Visit: bit.ly/4d8fx9v Deadline: Friday 6 June 2025! 🔔

Last week’s Participatory Research Training with the CPE was all about big ideas and buzzing conversations 💡 From Principles to Ethos to Study Design — we covered it all! Take a look 📸 Huge congrats to Dr Aoife Sadlier for bringing this brilliant event to life!

📢 Queen Mary staff & students – join our online focus group on shaping the future of public engagement in East London and our University! 🗓️ Tuesday 29 April Your voice matters as we co-create a strategy that is meaningful and impactful. Sign up 👉 bit.ly/4jb9BRa

✨ Got a cool STEM tabletop activity? Queen Mary wants YOU at the Lambeth Country Show or New Scientist Live. Fun. Hands-on. Conversation-starting. Apply by 22 April 🗓️ 👉 bit.ly/4240yK6 @qmuleecs.bsky.social @qmulspcs.bsky.social @qmulmaths.bsky.social

📸 Some moments from a recent @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, hosted by the Centre for Public Engagement! Thank you to everyone who helped make this a success. It was a fantastic day of connection and collaboration — take a look 👇

📣 Want to turn your research into something the public can’t stop talking about? We’ve got a booth. You bring the science. Apply now for Lambeth Country Show or New Scientist Live: bit.ly/4240yK6 @qmulfmd.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social @qmulsems.bsky.social @qmulwhri.bsky.social

🐾 Meet Lily Throssell – April Engagement Champion, wildlife advocate & community trailblazer. From London Zoo to Harrow Lodge Park, she’s turning passion into impact, inspiring others to protect nature. 💚🌍 Find out more: bit.ly/4aB4K8g #EngagementChampion

✨New Blog Post - Top Tips for your Being Human Festival Application!✨ The CPE’s new Public Engagement Manager, Rose, shares some insights on Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/4hQHWTZ

⬇️Forthcoming Advice Surgeries (extra dates!)⬇️ Thursday 3 April: 2pm-4pm Thursday 10 April: 12pm - 2pm Thursday 17 April: 11am-1pm Thursday 24 April: 12pm - 2pm Book an advice session with us: bit.ly/42i3FiV

🧪 Calling all scientists (and everyone in between)! Got a STEM idea that gets people talking? Apply now to showcase it at Lambeth Country Show or New Scientist Live! Deadline: 22 April 🗓️ 👉 bit.ly/4240yK6

We love seeing Queen Mary students making an impact! 🎨🫁 Zaafir Virmani (BSc Biomedical Sciences) hosted an art exhibition at QMSU to raise awareness about the health risks of smoking, as part of his Engaging the Public with Science module.

Calling all Tower Hamlets residents... Please join @nessaqmul.bsky.social and the dental school at @qmulfmd.bsky.social to share your ideas about oral health at the next "Big Mouth Tower Hamlets Conversation"! You can also fill in an online survey: form.jotform.com/243464229809...

🚀 Being Human Festival 2025: Get Involved! 🎭📚🔬 The UK’s national festival of the humanities is back! 🎉 Find out more on how to apply on our website: bit.ly/3DOKnsg @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

🚀 Exciting news! We're thrilled to welcome Noor Houadef as our newest Engagement Champion! 🎉 Congratulations👏 #EngagementChampion Find out more on our Wall of Fame: bit.ly/4aB4K8g

🌎A campaign to tackle hidden pollution dlvr.it/THXDbL via @qmulsems.bsky.social Inspired by Dr Tina Chowdhury's research, the campaign is raising awareness of air pollution’s impact on women's health💡

✨ New Blog Alert! 🔔 How do language barriers impact cancer care? The Translate Myeloma project explores how poor translations of medical documents affect Bengali-speaking patients in East London. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/41FPSBj

🚨 CPE Small Grants Update 🚨 The May 2025 round of CPE Small Grants has been cancelled due to timeframe pressures. However, applications for March and April rounds are still open—so don’t miss out! bit.ly/404Tpdb