Designing and delivering science busking training for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in preparation for European Researchers Night. Working with the public engagement team to design bespoke training for their 100+ STEM ambassadors to enable them to feel confident and have the skills to engage with local target schools through activity / workshop development.

I am currently employed by The Royal Society to deliver two distinct training courses to the Royal Society Fellows and external delegates. Public Engagement in Practice: This course is for scientists with prior experience in public engagement. The course aims to enhance public engagement knowledge, practice and skills, and help to create more relevant, meaningful and effective engagement activities. http://bit.ly/2gC6enmEngaging with Schools: This course is for scientists with prior experience in public engagement and is designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver successful engagement activities in schools. http://bit.ly/2cCOKZQ

I work as part of a team of five editors commissioning, reviewing, editing and proof-reading articles for the magazine.

Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research is a 20- research team strong institute embedded within the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester. Research themes are as far reaching as cancer, bowel disease, arthritis, and kidney disease, with the interlinking theme being the interaction of cells with their immediate environment within the human body. I work alongside the 120 researchers in the Centre to translate current research into a whole host of public programmes and events, from school visits, lectures, exhibitions and online content. We also have an adult programme to complement our well-established and vibrant schools programme. We work in close collaboration with colleagues from across the University of Manchester, including the Social Responsibility Team.

Working alongside researchers to develop bespoke activities for the public based on the research of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health.

Delivering bespoke science busking training to PhD students, Postdoctoral Researchers, members of the Public Engagement team and non-academic staff to support their ongoing programme of public engagement activities.

Working with the Public Engagement Team at The Francis Crick Institute, I started this project by carrying out a review of the current public engagement activities and then a consultation with the public engagement team and researchers to identify key research messages and translate these into activities suitable for a family and adult audience. The overarching goal was to excite and enthuse the public about the groundbreaking research happening at the Crick Institute. Over the course of the project, I designed, developed, piloted and refined a suite of activities based on key research priorities for the Crick Institute and then trained the public engagement team on the delivery of the activities. The venues and events to which these activities were taken include Imperial Science Festival, The Wellcome Collection and New Scientist Live.

I spent 12 months seconded to the Public Programmes Team at the Nowgen Centre, Manchester, as the Public Programmes Manager. I worked with researchers and clinicians from across the University of Manchester and the Central Manchester Foundation Trust to design, produce and deliver creative and innovative engagement projects with all aspects of biomedicine. Highlights of my secondment include designing and delivering ‘Joints and Genes’, an exploratory look at how genetic affects our risks and prognosis for diseases like arthritis. This event was hosted at the Museum of Science and Industry, as part of their programme of Platform for Investigation events, in April 2015. A version of this was also run later in 2015 as part of European Researchers Night at the Manchester Museum in September 2015. https://storify.com/CMFT_Research/joints-and-genes‘The Nest’ is a bespoke drama, examining the opinion-dividing topic of sharing health data records, working with researchers from the NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Safety Translational Research Centre (GM PSTRC). ‘The Nest’ focussed on the Centre’s Interface and Informatics theme, which works to develop digital information systems capturing routine healthcare data for better understanding of patient safety and to facilitate quality improvement in primary care. https://storify.com/GM_PSTRC/the-nest