Photograph of members of the MUSICC team chatting with members of the public at the Would You Get Sick for Science stand.
What are the impacts of two-way public engagement?
Our new article reflects on our busy and successful evening engaging with the public at the recent #ImperialLates: Happiness & Health event!
Some interesting shifts in thinking were revealed!
📖 Find out what happened: bit.ly/4ac1y4v
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Photograph of the 'Would you get sick for science?' team stood behind their stand at the Imperial Lates event. There are various science engagement activities and objects on the tables.
Would you get sick for science? 😷
That's the question we're putting to the public.
What is a human challenge study? We're explaining all this and more tonight!
If you happen to be in South Kensington, London, drop on by Imperial College London and visit us at #ImperialLates! 🧪
Photograph of a mannequin head wearing a wig and face mask in purple light.
Beetlejuice has been helping is with our activities for #ImperialLates: Happiness and Health!
We'll be testing the public's swabbing skills and showing off some glowing 'germs'.
All will be revealed Thursday evening!
Register for the event ➡️ t.co/GLhuOQ0kGC
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Photograph of people enjoying an activity at an Imperial Lates event.
This Thursday we'll be at #ImperialLates, London, talking all things human challenge studies with local public audiences!
Try your hand at our Super Swabber activity, see how UV 'germs' spread and test out your vaccine knowledge. We hope to see you there!
Register now ➡️ ow.ly/7qze50XSnFg
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600+ visitors through the front door in three hours for last month’s Time-themed #ImperialLates.
Together they enjoyed talks on the early universe, demos of atomic clocks & workshops making time-warping black hole Christmas decorations with our theoretical physicists and the wonderful PomegranART
As we near the end of International Year of Quantum, we're wrapping up the celebrations with a Time-themed #ImperialLates – packed with quantum-fun!
The centre piece of our Quantum Time Zone will be Resonating Possibilities' from Studio Above&Below – an art piece inspired by quantum clocks
I think Ive posted before about dance and movement as a science storytelling and engagement device for public audiences.
There was some great examples at last week's Diwali celebrating Light themed #ImperialLates - captured by the ever brilliant Brendan Foster
A real highlight of last night's light-themed #ImperialLates celebrating Diwali 🪔
Vinay Jobanputra, the creator of Bollyqueer, collaborated with Matthaus Schullik from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Astrophysics Group to create a dance class that explored the four stages of star formation ⭐
No one ever wants an #ImperialLates to end, but at the close of next week's event, you'll be treated to a beautiful Bollywood dance by Imperial Indian Society to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light!
🎟️: ow.ly/kJ3W50X9Krw
🚨 The #ImperialLates returns this October!! 🚨
And there are lots of opportunities for Imperial academic staff and students to bring their research, innovations and ideas to these fun, social post-work events attended by anywhere between between 750-1000 visitors
www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/...
“It’s been really rewarding to see many of these ideas are growing their own legacy outside of the Lates.”
Lovely quote from Mimmi Mårtensson in this #ImperialLates story - www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261997/...
Here are some pics from final future of cities event. All from @BrendanFosterphotography
Little snippet from last week's Future Cities themed #ImperialLates
Here is Sal Chebbah from the Grow Urban Festival running a grow-your-mushrooms 🍄 workshop with @ic-cep.bsky.social's Dr Tilly Collins, who discussed how cities can grow more of their own food 🌇🌱🍽️
Amazing time at #ImperialLates yesterday talking to people about our #Awair project to bring #AirPollution information into the public realm 🚦👀.
Lots of new ideas and connections!
@impurbanhealth.bsky.social
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
@kayloquial.bsky.social
Its today - opening to the public in three hours! #ImperialLates
🏙️ ♻️ Create wildflower seed bombs and play a board game to find out more about the crucial role plants have in future urban landscapes at #ImperialLates: Future Cities, featuring our very own Urban Wildlife team!
📅 11 March
Sign-up now: buff.ly/4379dhh
🏙️ ♻️ 🥕 Find out the carbon footprint of popular foods and learn more about what city dwellers might be eating in future at #ImperialLates: Future Cities, featuring our very own Climate-friendly Kitchen!
📅 11 March
Sign-up now: buff.ly/4379dhh
Molly hosting our quantum silent disco
Quantum silent disco in action
Biology ballet performance
Insect yoga class
Next #ImperialLates is on Future Cities
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-l...
Join us to:
🍝Make spaghetti skyscrapers with Earthquake engineers
🦦Check in on London's first beavers in 400 years
🍄Create fungi farm starter kits
🕺Enjoy a street dance class
Here's some fav pics from the last Lates.
A week since the last #ImperialLates - here is another view of our fungal ballet performance to round off the evening
Pics from last week's Weird Science #ImperialLates - where almost 1000 people turned up to enjoy:
Pickled bats 🦇
Insect yoga 🧘
Quantum body-popping ⚛️
Butterfly carnival costumes 🦋
Fungal ballet 🩰
See you next month as we explore the future of our cities - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-l...
A mushroom ballet show? Insect yoga? Slimy computers?
We love the sound of this Thursday's 'Weird Science' #ImperialLates!
It's free, in South Kensington, London, and for 18s and over.
There are just a few tickets left available >>
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Start of a big week - with our 'Weird Science' #ImperialLates the evening before the return of the wonderful UK Science Festivals Network (UKSFN) Conference
That early morning train journey to Bristol is going to be... interesting
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Are you ready to get WEIRD? 🤪
🎉 Dive into the unexpected at #ImperialLates on Weird Science! 🧪
Explore bizarre wonders from zombie cells to invisibility cloaks, & even a mushroom ballet!
📅6 Feb, 18:00-21:00 ▶️ bit.ly/4hhiQgX
A picture of our biology ballerina Eleonora Moratto
One of our Weird Maths impossible shapes that will inspire a unique valentines card making workshop
People enjoying a silent disco at a previous Lates
Butterfly wing expert Mahika Dixit who will be helping present our butterfly carnival costume workshop at the Lates
Its tales of the scientifically unexpected at our 'Weird Science' #ImperialLates on 6th Feb
🟠 Enjoy a mushroom ballet show🍄 🩰
🟠 Make 'Weird maths' valentine cards ❤️or butterfly carnival costumes 🦋
🟠 Join an insect yoga class 🧘♀️ or a quantum silent disco
▶️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-l...
Bollywood balance 💃
For our Senses-themed #ImperialLates -my colleague Mimmi Mårtensson brought together dancer Lakshmi Iyengar, with Isobel Jupp from Imperial’s Musculoskeletal Lab to run a unique #scicomm Bollywood dance class
Together they explored mind-body connection, balance & proprioception
Come say hello to the SONICOM team at #ImperialLates: Senses 🔊
We’ll also be running tours of the Turret Lab so make sure you get your name on the list before we run out of space!
See you from 6pm at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Hello #BlueSky 🦋 world!
You can meet us in person at #ImperialLates: Senses tonight to explore the wonderful world of 3D audio. 🔊🎧
🗓️ 5 December, 6-9 pm
📍South Kensington
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Register here: ow.ly/Sxvl50U9320
#ImperialLates return in Dec with an evening exploring your senses & how others sense the world around us.
Get super tasting and bollywood dancing for science, before having your spidey senses tingling by your favourite insect supersense.
📆05/12
🕐6-9pm
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We're at Imperial College #ImperialLates Dec 5 with 4 #ScienceStories that’ll make you laugh, cry, and see life differently! 🎙Hosted by Richard Kemeny & Michaela Agapiou. Stories by Akshay Gajria, Benji Waterhouse, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi & Heather Hanna.
FREE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imperial-l...
Hi all
I'm James and relatively new here.
I'm a public engagement manager at Imperial College London where I programme public events inc. #ImperialLates & the #sciart weekender - the Great Exhibition Road Festival (#ExRdFest)
It would be great to connect with other science festival organisers
People sit around tables with lots of art materials, behind them is a sign saying 'The magic of the moon workshop' and a Christmas tree
2 people sit at a table crafting while another looks over them. In the background is a Christmas tree
I'll be at #ImperialLates tomorrow night making festive moon tags & decorations. Explore what the moon means to you, and find out more about the moon.
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