Engagement

Ivvet Modinou
Head of Engagement
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+44 (0) 207 019 4936

Jessica Simpson
Engagement Manager
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+44 (0) 207 019 4941

Grace Howourth
Engagement Manager
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+44 (0) 207 019 4925

Valia Giannakaki
Festival Operations Manager
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+44 (0) 207 019 4964

Pippa Weaver
Volunteer Engagement Officer
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+44 (0) 207 019 4963

Anna Woolman
Engagement Officer
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+44 (0) 207 019 4957

Latest

British Science Festival: Shedding light on baby brain injury

Detecting brain damage in newborns is notoriously difficult. Gemma Bale of UCL is helping to develop an innovative method for investigating brain activity – using infrared light. Alan Barker followed her into an area of research that promises to give new hope to babies and their families.
British Science Festival: can astrophysics help to save Earth’s species?

Biodiversity is under threat around the planet. Claire Burke is helping to pioneer a new field to help prevent poaching and possible future extinctions – and it’s called astroecology. In the Daphne Oram Award Lecture at this year’s British Science Festival, Claire introduced and illustrated her work. Alan Barker was there.
British Science Festival - The robot will see you now: the future of medical technology

From AI within pathology to diagnosis techniques for the baby brain injury, Alicia Shephard looks at new innovations in the medical field.
British Science Festival: Sci-fi influences on evolutionary linguistics

Beyond depictions of the future, science fiction can help us understand linguistics of the present and the past. Fred McNamara tell us more from the British Science Festival.