Engagement Blog
Welcome to the Engagement Blog! This blog was created to allow Institute staff & students to share their stories and comments on public engagement events and activities as well as providing a space for our researchers to discuss scientific topics and about their life in the lab.
The views and opinions expressed here are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Babraham Institute.
The Pampisford Society visit labs and facilities
The public engagement programme at the Babraham Institute seeks to engage people of all ages. As well as working with school students and teachers, the Institute interacts with adult community groups from across Cambridgeshire. Here Tacita, the Institute’s Public Engagement Manager, discusses a recent event with the Pampisford Society.
03/10/2017
Summer student placements - it's more than just the lab work!
Shaun Png is another undergraduate on a summer placement, working in Rahul Roychoudhuri's group. He explains how it's not just being at the bench that makes the Babraham Institute a great place to work.
19/09/2017
What do you expect from scientific research? Come and tell us!
ORION is a EU funded project to facilitate Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Babraham Institute and other European research funding and performing organisations. Open Science is about making research more accessible, which is increasingly important for improving the quality of research and for assessing it. Whether citizen or researcher, this project needs you. Get involved!
11/09/2017
Summer student placements - an undergraduate's view
In the second of a series of posts written by summer placement students, undergraduate Alice Buckingham explains her project and what brought her to the Institute.
08/09/2017
Summer student placements - a sixth-form perspective
Millie is an A level student who joined the Institute during summer 2017 to gain a few week's of experience of working in the lab. Each year we welcome a number of students from schools and universities to work on short-term project that help them to develop their skills and confidence in research. Here Millie explains how her placement led her to discover the complexities of Bioinformatics.
24/08/2017
A technical services perspective on Public Engagement
Run as part of the visit by Generating Genius students as described in the previous blog, Oliver Burns from the Institute's Technical Services team describes the interactive tour he has developed to show visiting students how much work it takes to keep a research lab working safely.
16/08/2017
Generating Genius
31/07/2017
Inspiring the next generation of scientists?
Kirsti Hornigold, from Heidi Welch's group, ran science workshops for Year 2 and Year 3 at her childrens' school in Saffron Walden
25/07/2017
Speaking about genome folding in a pub – my Pint of Science experience
Clara Novo, a Post-doctoral research scientist in the Rugg-Gunn lab, describes how the Pint of Science scheme and collaboration with a jewellery maker have brought her research to a new audience.
14/07/2017
Pint of Science – Where science meets beer and art
Dorotty Horkai, from the Institute's Lipidomics Facility, explains how she helped organise this years Pint Of Science festival in Cambridge
26/06/2017
Epigenetics and forget-me-nots
Fatima Santos, a member of Wolf Reik's group, recently spoke about Epigenetics to the 'Forget-me-not' 'Club in Abington.
05/06/2017
Making noise at a local library!
Chiara Pantarelli, a student in the Welch group, explained how scientific research is managed and talked about some of her findings during a visit to Willingham Library
31/05/2017
Royal Society Grant success for Colchester students
Students from Colchester County High School for Girls explain how their Royal Sociey Partnership Grant with Olivia Casanueva's group led them to a conference in London.
22/05/2017
Art meets science for Babraham Primary School
Simon Walker, Head of the Institute's Imaging Facility, describes the art/science workshop he coordinated for a local primary school
12/05/2017
The X-files: Our Amazing Inactivating X Chromosomes
Claire Senner, a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Myriam Hemberger's group, talks about the success of her Royal Society Partnership Grant with Hitchin Girls School.
05/05/2017
Marching for Science
Babraham researchers joined the March for Science rally in London. In the following blog, PhD researcher from the Reik Lab, Julia Spindel shares her experience of the event:
25/04/2017
Can you print an organ in a 3D printer?
Joerg Stange, a member of the Institute's Immunology programme, discusses the use of organoids in research and his experience of taking part in the Cambridge Science Festival 2017.
18/04/2017
Plasmids and Posters - my two years with the UTC Protein Challenge
Katherine Fletcher, a member of the Florey research group, explains why she enjoys working with students from the University Technical College, Cambridge
13/04/2017
Babraham Institute Molecular Explorer’s Exhibit at the Cambridge Science Festival
Chiara Pantarelli, a PhD student in Heidi Welch's research group, shares her motivations and experience of this fun weekend, hands-on festival event.
23/03/2017
Go Dutch!
Guest blogger Malcolm Moss explains how the Dutch Technasium approach recognises the demand for students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to ensure they can contribute and be happy as global citizens in the 21st century
21/03/2017
Onderzoek & Ontwerpen!
Boo Virk, Dorottya Horkai and Mike Hinton describe their visit to Sophianum School in the Netherlands to launch five challenge projects as part of the national Technasium scheme.
16/03/2017
Ageing research and sociology
Group Leader Geoff Butcher muses on his recent visit to a local community group to talk about ageing research at the Babraham Institute.
17/02/2017
University and life in the lab – sharing experience of early-stage research careers
Emma, a first-year PhD student in the Cook research group, reflects on the careers discussion sessions she led with students from the University Technical College in Cambridge.
15/02/2017
Learning more about Public Engagement
Michael Hinton, part of the Public Engagement team, describes his experiences of working with the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)
20/01/2017
Twelve Engagement Highlights of 2016
Having spent a year as Public Engagement Manager, Tacita looks back at some of the highlights of a very busy 12 months.
29/12/2016