The School of Life Sciences Public Engagement team have been working on a draft Public Engagement with Research Strategy and we would value input from researchers from the School. We welcome feedback and suggestions on the document as it is essential to include your views and those of our local community to make the strategy relevant and practical.
Did you know that a single teaspoon of a healthy garden soil can hold up to one billion bacteria?
Did you know that a single teaspoon of a healthy garden soil can hold up to one billion bacteria?
Provide a sample to learn about your own soil bacteria and help scientist Nicola Stanley-Wall in the School in her research into these bacterial communities! Collect 2 tablespoons of your garden soil or well-rotted compost into a sandwich bag and bring it along to:
P.L.A.N.T.’s Tayport Community Garden
on Sunday 25th of June, 2-4pm
We will process the samples together and you will get pictures of your own bacteria and information about them.
Are you a PhD student or Postdoc looking for meaningful, paid teaching experience?
The Brilliant Club is a charity that seeks to increase access to highly selective universities by placing researcher in non-selective state schools, where they deliver a course of tutorials designed around their own, original research.
Like to find out more? The please come along to our information event.
To find out more and make an application, please visit our website: www.thebrilliantclub.org
Want to get involved in Public Engagement but not sure how to?
The University of Dundee has been rated among the world’s best universities in terms of impact of scientific research, being placed 28th in the 2017 CWTS Leiden Rankings.
Exscientia, an innovative company at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery, is pleased to announce that it has agreed a strategic research collaboration, and licence option agreement with Sanofi in the high-interest area of metabolic disease. Exscientia is a spin-out company from the School.
Undergraduate Biomedical Sciences student, David Bell, has had his literature review from his Science Communication Honours Project accepted for publication in the open access journal World J Dermatol. David undertook his honours project with Professor Sara Brown in the School of Medicine. The focus of her research is to understand molecular and genetic mechanisms in atopic skin, in particular atopic eczema. David’s review summarises current understanding and highlights some novel treatments in development for this condition.
A fascinating day for all the family. Activities include:
Face Painting * Music by the BarrowBand * Birds of Prey * Woodturning * Pot a plant * Percussive Plant Printing * Scientific Workshops * Friends Plant Sale * Live Performance - One Play, Two Performances, Four Marys * Badge-making * Beekeepers * Garden Trail * Flute-making Workshop
Want to get involved in Public Engagement but not sure how to?
