Name: Science Live UK meeting
Start: 2015-03-12T13:00:00Z
End: 2015-03-13T17:00:00Z
Location: The Pitt Building

Science Live UK meeting

University of Cambridge, Public Engagement

A new transatlantic pilot study called <A HREF="http://livescienceevents.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Science Live</A> aims to better understand what makes science events tick. The project is funded by the <A HREF="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Funding-schemes/Science-Learning/index.htm" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Science Learning+</A> initiative of the Wellcome Trust, the US National Science Foundation, and the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
 
UK meeting dates
This is a working meeting to discuss pressing issues faced by the live science communication community and what our shared long-term goals might look like.
Please register for both days even if you only intend to come to part of a single day.
<UL>
<LI>Thursday 12 March, 1pm – 5pm: introduction to Science Live: opportunities and challenges</LI>
<LI>Friday 13 March, 10 am – 5pm: development of Science Live vision, survey and next steps</LI>
</UL>
 
The Science Live project is a significant step forward in a long-term effort to widen access to the beneficial impacts of public science events, better understand the infrastructure around facilitated audience journeys, and uncover new opportunities for engaging society with science.
Research exists into museums, science festivals and the UK science communication activities; we seek to share this learning more widely with practitioners, and thus make greater use of evidence-based advocacy for our diverse community of practitioners and target audiences. Science busking, talks, stage performances, touring exhibitions, café discussions and immersive experiences – the list goes on! – take place throughout the year and in a science festival come together in a focused location and time period. During the large-scale Cambridge Science Festival, we will be hosting a two-day conference to ask those involved in live science events: “what makes us special?”
 
Please join us
Phase One of the Science Live project started in January 2015. The work is organised into two categories that support the development of the public science events sector: network and knowledge. Network deliverables include both a growing roster of participants committed to contributing to the project objectives, and a set of recommendations for practices that connect event practitioners and researchers in the US and UK. A completed landscape study, organised into a single document and simple website, is the main deliverable related to knowledge. This landscape study will summarise existing activity and findings related to the unique contributions of events, and provide an overview of potentially fruitful areas for future investigation; <A HREF="http://livescienceevents.org/future-research/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">livescienceevents.org/future-research</A>.
 
The <A HREF="http://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Science Festival</A> runs 9-22 March 2015 so there are plenty of activities in the evenings to fuel discussion. Public bookings open Monday 9 February but Science Live delegates can pre-register (details of how are in the conference booking confirmation.)
<A HREF="http://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/system/files/csf_2015_web_programme.pdf" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Science Festival 2015 programme (PDF, 2.1MB)</A>
 
<UL>
<LI>Thursday 12 March</LI>
</UL>
1pm – 5pm: introduction to Science Live: opportunities and challenges
6pm – late: Science Festival events include talks on Vitamin D, tropical disease, technology of light and boat race marginal gains, science comedy in the CB2 café, a panel discussion on stress and resilience and a live BBC radio broadcast with the Naked Scientists from the Pitt Building.
<UL>
<LI>Friday 13 March</LI>
</UL>
10 am – 5pm: development of Science Live vision, survey and next steps…
6pm – late: Science Festival events include talks on robotic legs and two panel discussions on: climate engineering with Oliver Morton, Martin Rees, Amartya Sen, Onora O’Neill and David Keith; and health and wellbeing through the workplace with Carol Black, Steve Boorman and Chris van Stolk.
 
Visiting Cambridge
Refreshments will be provided at the venue: Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP Information about visiting the University of Cambridge: <A HREF="http://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/visiting-the-university" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.cam.ac.uk/visitors</A>
Information about visiting Cambridge: <A HREF="http://www.visitcambridge.org/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.visitcambridge.org</A>
Booking accommodation in Cambridge: <A HREF="http://www.visitcambridge.org/accommodation" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.visitcambridge.org/accommodation</A>

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