Funded projects

A game aimed at students in Key Stages 3 and 4, to showcase careers and opportunities in the field of biochemistry.

A series of after school clubs for 10-11 year olds aimed at increasing participation in science.

An outreach initiative to connect 14-16 year old high school students from diverse backgrounds in Liverpool with postgraduate and ECRs from various academic disciplines.

Continuation of a hands-on public engagement activity that engages children and their families with bowel screening by using fun tools like Play-Doh to encourage curiosity and excitement about cancer research.

A murder mystery project focused on providing laboratory experience and skills to under privileged students in Coventry, Birmingham and Leamington Spa.

A Cell signalling game and activities pack for schools.

Activity Zone within the Cambridge Science Centre to allow families and school groups to get hands-on with biochemical topics.

Outreach programme providing a series of practical opportunities for primary school students to work on biotechnology experiments involving enzymes.

Co-constructing resources and widening access to tools for equitable informal STEM learning in Portuguese-speaking contexts.

Science fair with state secondary school pupils from the North East of England, where pupils presented a research project on a topic of their choosing.

Extension of a letter exchange project (2021) between Portuguese-speaking scientists and students in low-income communities to foster individual and one-year long conversations to promote scientific and language literacy. 

Public engagement activity about the cardiovascular system and cardiovascular disease, in particular the role of platelets and blood clotting – Manchester, UK.

Engagement event for students in the Coventry and Leamington Spa area to give students an insight into life at university and studying biosciences to widen participation in higher education.

Outreach event with a local school focused on microbes and disease and careers in the biosciences – Kwara State, Nigeria.