Category Archives: Outreach

25Aug/15
Big Bang Fair

Joint Ogden Trust/SEPnet Outreach Officers

Jobs, Outreach

Outreach Officers

Looking for challenging jobs in Physics Outreach & Public Engagement? Two universities within SEPnet are looking for Outreach Officers, both part-funded by the Ogden Trust. The roles are quite different but both include delivery and development of schools outreach. Herts will be developing a public engagement programme for their physicists while Open will be developing a new citizen science project.

University of Hertfordshire:

http://www.herts.ac.uk/contact-us/jobs-and-vacancies/academic-vacancies

(Doesn’t allow a direct link, so please follow academic vacancies link).

Deadline: 14 September 2015

The Open University:

http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=8706&ref=ext

Deadline: 30 September 2015

Both roles will get support from The Ogden Trust and their networks. They will also get support from the SEPnet Outreach team including the Director and the current officers.

SEPnet also provides seasonal SEPnet Outreach Officers Meeting, bespoke training for officers and an annual SEPnet Outreach Officers Away Day. Please get in touch with SEPnet’s Outreach Director if you’d like to talk about both roles and their links with SEPnet. For enquiries about each role, please get in touch with the respective university.

31Jul/15

Reflecting Photonics IYL garden voted Best Garden

awards, Outreach

Designer Helen Elks-Smith’s Reflecting Photonics won a Gold medal and the People’s Choice Award at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) show at Tatton Park. The garden was inspired by the International Year of Light and the fibre optics work being carried out at University of Southampton. An outreach team of post-graduate students from Southampton took part in the event and spoke to over 2,000 people, handing out information on the garden and fibre optics research at Southampton.

Pearl John, Southampton’s SEPnet Outreach Officer and Public Engagement team leader for Physics and Astronomy, who has been working on the project said, “I’m very glad that the enthusiastic response we’ve had from people visiting the garden and talking to our outreach team. Having our outreach team there really helped the garden win the People’s Choice Award for Best Garden.”

The International Year of Light themed garden was also featured in a special BBC programme on the RHS Tatton Show, which can be seen here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063jx7p .