Public Engagement intern Samir Morsli tells us about his research, his expectations for his three-month placement at the Babraham Institute, and how it complements his PhD at The University of Sheffield.
Co-creation in action! Emma, Public Engagement Officer, summarises the latest ORION open experiment at the Euroscience Open Forum in Toulouse.
Since 2016 鈥楨uropean 51在线er鈥檚 Night鈥 has been hosted in countries throughout Europe. For 2018 and 2019, Cambridgeshire will have its own night called LifeLab. The Institute is one of the founding organisations 鈥 read on to find out how to get involved.
As part of European 51在线ers鈥 Night, Babraham Institute staff will be reading stories with gender equality themes to children during 尝颈蹿别尝补产鈥檚 鈥楾ell Me a Story鈥 event
PhD students Izzy Hampson and Carolyn Rogers describe how they joined forces to create a new project for secondary school students
Epigenetics and English: Jan Deffner, a student from Munich, describes what he learned during two-week work experience placement in Wolf Reik鈥檚 group
Nuffield placement student Jiaqi Chen looks back on a life-changing year, which started and ended with projects in Michael Wakelam's lab.
Esther van Vliet, Public Engagement Officer, reminiscences about her week at the Royal Society with the 鈥楻ace Against The Ageing Clock鈥 exhibit.
PhD student Katherine Fletcher took a break from the Florey Signalling lab to learn more about communicating science at the London Sci Comm Symposium 2018
The 5th July 2018 is the first ever Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans (and more) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths day and the Babraham Institute is showing support by flying the rainbow flag and wearing bright colours. But why are we doing this?
The Institute welcomed Dr Irina Abnizova, our first Daphne Jackson Trust Career Re-entry Fellow in October 2017. Irina joined Dr Wolf Reik鈥檚 laboratory in Epigenetics. equality4success Manager, Laura Norton, met with Irina to welcome her to the Institute and to ask about the process of applying for a Daphne Jackson Fellowship.
Emma Martinez, Public Engagement Officer, discusses the latest developments of our upcoming work to discuss genome editing with the public
With five months down and two months left to create the 鈥楻ace Against the Ageing Clock鈥 exhibit for the , how is it progressing? We check in with Esther, the Institute鈥檚 Public Engagement Officer, to find out.
As sixth-form students at Sophianum School finish their projects and present their ideas, Michael Hinton, who coordinates the project, looks back on the year and describes how the collaboration will expand in 2019.
The cutting-edge, fundamental scientific research being performed at the Babraham Institute impacts on a range of policy areas. Parliamentarians often look for researchers to engage with and to inform policy decisions. In this blog Prof. Wolf Reik talks about his recent policy engagement with the Parliament Office of Science and Technology (POST).
As part of the development of our new exhibit, Race Against the Ageing Clock, researchers Dil and Jo visited the Royal Society, London, in March for some insightful training on engagement through the use of exhibit activities, before putting their new skills into practice at the Cambridge Science Festival.
Emma Martinez muses on how a workshop organised as part of the shed some light onto involving different audiences in creating new value in research and innovation processes.
On the 13th of March the Babraham Institute organised the discussion event 鈥淕enome Editing 鈥 How far should we go?鈥. Carolyn Rogers, a 1st year PhD student in Anne Corcoran's group, was one of the Institute鈥檚 researchers facilitating the table discussions.
In our latest KEC blog post, post-doctoral researcher Jo Durgan, part of the Florey group, steps out of the lab to discuss climate change and her work across the Institute as a Climate Reality Leader.
Jo Montgomery, a member of the , describes how Schools鈥 Day projects bring out the best in scientists and students
The 鈥楶rotein Challenge鈥 project at the combines an introduction to key molecular biology techniques and practical lab-based sessions to assay protein activity. Here the students tell us more about what they got up to on their recent visit to the Institute to learn more about our research and facilities
In November, as part of 360 Science, we invited science author and broadcaster to visit the Institute to talk about her career and offer tips on getting started in communications. Here PhD student Christina Courreges reflects on Kat鈥檚 presentation and what she took away from it.
A class of year 6 children from recently visited the Imaging Facility on campus to learn more about cells. They were thrilled to see the microscopes and detailed images that we can take on them. They also used the microscopes we have as resource for our public engagement programme to look at a range of slides and the nematode worm . We received a wonderful thank you letter from each child which highlighted how much they had enjoyed the afternoon.
In November the Institute heard it was successful in the competitive selection to showcase its upcoming exhibition, the 鈥淩ace Against the Ageing Clock鈥, at the in London this summer. Esther van Vliet, Public Engagement Officer, is part of the exhibit development team and shares here how work has begun on the creation of the exhibit.