Colleagues may be interested in the opportunity to showcase their science or technology work at next year’s summer exhibition at the Royal Society, London. It runs from 3-8 July 2012, and, while visited by the general public, also aims at Government, journalists, Parliamentarians, and senior scientists from other disciplines than your own. Work on such an exhibition stand can also contribute to the personal development and training of your research staff, enhancing communication skills and hearing views from the public, MPs, etc.
The Society give attendance figures as typically 10,000 visitors plus ‘tens of thousands online’, and 2,000 secondary school students
STFC’s Science in Society programme can provide a special grant of up to £7.0K for the costs for exhibits in the STFC science or technology areas. This would be on the basis of a simple case for support (also stating that the funds could not be sourced from other collaborators) and block-heading budget sent to STFC SiS after acceptance (the exhibition is competitive). Payment would normally be via an invoice with a short report sent to STFC SiS just after the event itself. STFC may also be able to advise, or help-in-kind, concerning artefacts, images, models, literature, etc.
The closing date for applications to the RS is Monday 24 October 2011.
For further information on the Exhibition, see http://royalsociety.org/how-to-exhibit or contact Rachel Francis on 020 7451 2244 or exhibition@royalsociety.org .
For more information on support from STFC, please contact Chris Woolford, Science in Society team, email Chris.Woolford@stfc.ac.uk , Tel 01793 442098.
STFC Science in Society team