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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · 9d

📢 We're pleased to share our Public Engagement Training offer for the Autumn semester at QMUL!

We've got new sessions coming up on 'Building Equitable Partnerships', 'Evaluating Public Engagement' and Creative Methods for Youth-oriented research and more:

www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

Training - Queen Mary University of London

www.qmul.ac.uk

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David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Who are the publics in public history? Report from our recent staff-student project highlights issues around inclusion, marketisation and the politicisation of DEI
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Who Are the Publics in Public History? | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Who Are the Publics in Public History? - Volume 1

www.cambridge.org

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · 27d

📢 Small grant applications are open! 📢

If you're a QMUL staff member or student, apply today to receive up to £1k to fund your public engagement, community engagement, or PPI project.

Applications close at 5pm, 31/10
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/CPESmallGrants

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Aug 13

📆🧪 Just one week to go until our science fun day! 🧪📆

Centre of the Cell @centreofthecell.bsky.social · Jul 30

Science fun day! 🎉🔬

📅 Wednesday 20th Aug, 12-4 PM 📍 Blizard Institute, Whitechapel 🎟️ Free entry – no ticket needed!

Explore science games, shows, films, & hands-on activities with @QMUL scientists.👩🔬

More info: www.centreofthecell.org/product/augu... #familyfunday #OurEastEnd @TowerHamletsNow

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jul 24

We're busy gearing up for Tower Hamlets South West Locality Summer Fun Day on 30 July!

QMUL staff and students are hosting a range of free activities for local families, exploring everything from local air pollution data, to the structure of cells! 💚🔬⛹️🌞🌳

A poster for the Tower Hamlets Family Hubs South West Locality Summer Fun Day. Date: Wednesday 30 July, 12noon-3pm. Location: Ocean Children and Family Centre, Whitehorse Road, E1 0ND. Activities: Arts, Crafts & Fun, Meet Local Services, Activities for Young People.

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jul 22

We're taking part in Open House Festival 2025! 🏠

On Sunday 14th September we'll be running two social history tours of our Mile End campus, led by @alastairhackney.bsky.social and Nadia Valman.

Booking will open on 20th August ⚡
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/1432

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus

Explore the hidden corners of Queen Mary University's Mile End campus. Guided tour includes the former People’s Palace (1887), Mile End Hospital (1858), and the Sephardic Jewish cemetery (1733), the U...

programme.openhouse.org.uk

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Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social · May 30

🔉 Calling all UK researchers and public engagement professionals 🔉

The Royal Society would like to hear your views and experience of public engagement through their Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers survey (deadline Monday 30th June).
Complete the survey here: bit.ly/3HgpcAJ

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 17

Exciting news! 📢 QMUL is hosting an area at the Tower Hamlets Family Hubs Fun Day and the Centre of the Cell Science Fun Day! Join us by hosting your own stall or activity. Engage with local families, make a difference, and have fun! Sign up now 👉 www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 16

@friends-earth.bsky.social is hosting a free workshop in Tower Hamlets on 26 June, exploring the link between poverty, inequality & environmental injustice.

📍 East London Mosque
🕤 9.30am–1pm
🍵 Refreshments provided

Just 30 spots—book early!
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

Environmental Justice in partnership - London

Join our free workshop to explore the shared drivers of social and environmental harm - and build local links across sectors to tackle them

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 11

📅 ELRI (Early Life Research Institute) Sandpit Spark Session – Launch Event
Date: 26th June 2025, 14:30 - 17:00
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/elri-sandp...
This informal session is designed to help researchers get to know each other and share what they’re working on!

ELRI Sandpit Spark Session

Join us at the ELRI Sandpit Spark Session for a fun and interactive brainstorming session to ignite new ideas and collaborations!

www.eventbrite.com

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 9

We had a fantastic weekend in the Science Big Top, part of the Discovery Zone, at Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to get hands-on with science. 🪐🔬🦠

#LCS25 #LambethCountryShow @qmulspcs.bsky.social

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 5

Deadline 9am tomorrow!

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Apr 22

Are you interested in engaging the public with University research or co-producing research with stakeholders outside the university? The Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) Large Grants and Participatory Research Fund Schemes are now open!

Visit: bit.ly/4d8fx9v

Deadline: Friday 6 June 2025! 🔔

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌸 Flowers for Peace 🌸

It was great to be at Peopling the Palaces Festival this morning for a flower arranging workshop exploring the revolutionary power of flowers!

Still lots of free festival events to come over the next couple of days! @peoplespalaceproj.bsky.social

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A pink leaflet for 'Peopling the Palaces Festival, 4th-8th June 2025'

Buckets of flowers and foliage on a table

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · May 27

Calling all researchers and public engagement professionals: we want to find out the factors affecting public engagement in 2025, including opportunities, risks and barriers. Help shape the future of public engagement with STEM by taking our survey: www.research.net/r/RS_public_...

Factors Affecting Public Engagement by UK Researchers 2025

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 29

🏛️News from the CPE🏛️

We’re proud to share that Professor Kathryn Yusoff, recipient of a CPE Large Grant, is co-curator of Geology of Britannic Repair—the British Pavilion exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Learn more here: www.ft.com/content/eb76...

Can these architects right the wrongs of Britain’s colonial past?

The British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale has assembled an international team — including a visionary Kenyan studio

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 29

🎨Peopling the Palaces Festival returns with five-day celebration of resistance through art, performance and conversation🎭

4th-8th June 2025

Book your tickets now!: www.eventbrite.com/cc/peopling-...

Peopling the Palaces

Peopling the Palaces is back this June, reaching into the QM Arts community and beyond to deliver a multidisciplinary programme curated around themes of resistance.

www.eventbrite.com

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · May 26

We had a great time at the Soapbox Science event last Saturday in London's Southbank with @antorrisi.bsky.social ! Lots of cool science done and explained by women 💪 #womeninscience #soapboxscience2025
@when-in-science.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

soapboxscience.org/soapbox-scie...

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · May 27

Queen Mary College’s (@qmul.ac.uk) new Crittall windows — a feature of its Engineering Building Stage 2 development (designed by Playne and Lacey Architects) advertised in East London Papers, July 1965

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QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social · May 27

A great postdoctoral Research Fellow post - please share!

DeNPRU-QM @denpru-qm.bsky.social · May 27

We're looking for a postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Nottingham hub of the DeNPRU-QM team.

📚You'll need strong analytical skills & mixed methods experience

⏰Apply by 9 June 2025

Full job description and person spec available below 👇

shorturl.at/pY2B4

@dementiaresearcher.bsky.social

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate Fellow (FTC)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Fellow within the Academic Unit, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences to join the NIHR DeNPRU-UN (Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy Research U...

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 28

🎟️Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival🎟️

When?: 24 June 2025, 10:30-3pm
Where?: Derek Willoughby lecture theatre, William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square, QMUL

See more at: www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/patient...

Point of contact: [email protected]

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 27

Check out this great event by @niranjwrite.bsky.social supported by this year's CPE Small Grant round!

There’s no pre-registration required for the event. Please note that seating will be on a first come basis, the venue also has some standing room.

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 27

Just a reminder that the Large Grants Scheme and the Participatory Research Scheme are now open for the 2025-26 academic year! Apply by the 6th of June! 👉🏼https://www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengagement/funding/

Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · Apr 22

Are you interested in engaging the public with University research or co-producing research with stakeholders outside the university? The Centre for Public Engagement (CPE) Large Grants and Participatory Research Fund Schemes are now open!

Visit: bit.ly/4d8fx9v

Deadline: Friday 6 June 2025! 🔔

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · May 15

Join us for 'New perspectives on nineteenth-century childhoods', 1pm-8pm on Wednesday 4 June 2025 at the Ragged School Museum, London E3. Panel discussions followed by keynote lecture by Prof Josephine McDonagh (Chicago). Free, but booking essential: www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

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JoBrodie @jobrodie.bsky.social · May 15

I put some links here into a neatly curated web page (then added more links as stuff came up in the event). If you're interested in science communication plus public engagement this / these may be useful peeecs.wordpress.com/links-for-jo... #scicomm

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Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement @engageqm.bsky.social · May 15

🐟New Blog post🐟

Jellyfish Photo Booth brought together QM academic, a food scientist, and a jellyfish aquaculturist to engage Darien’s working waterfront community about the fishery’s continuing resilience.

Read more: bit.ly/4dmP3mv

Art-Science Collaborations for Naturecultures at Darien’s Blessing of the Fleet

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