Science is Vital Expand We invited young people from the CREST Youth Panel and the National Science + Engineering Competition youth volunteers to input into a report being created by Science is Vital regarding the governments planned budget changes for 2013. The report was concerned with researchers opinion of how budget changes would affect their research, job security and the place of the UK as a world leader in research and was presented to the Rt Hon David Willets MP. The students acted as a focus group and fed into the document as future young researchers. The report prompted a meeting between the Science is Vital team and MPs where the addition of the youth voice element was noted as a positive addition. Partners: Science is VitalLinks:Summary of report and download linkScience is Vital CampaignReport
Planet Under Pressure Expand We invited young people to nominate themselves for a panel of teenagers with an interest in climate/environmental change and in community action. Twelve were selected and invited to a one-day workshop in November 2011, also attended by researchers. In the subsequent four months, the young people consulted their peers and used the findings to construct a ten minute presentation and some poster displays. They gave the presentation and showcased their posters at the Opening Ceremony of the international Planet Under Pressure conference at London’s ExCeL Centre in March 2013. Partners: ScienceWise-ERC, Research Coucils UK (RCUK) (especially the Living With Environmental Change programme), the Royal Society and the Planet Under Pressure Conference itself.Links:Collective memory project summary and report.The panel's posters, on the ScienceWise-ERC website.Film of the students' presentations at the Conference.