PRISM Exeter is excited to announce the speakers for their LGBT+ History month event on Wednesday 28th February at Exeter Library . The event will showcase the work of two LGBTQ+ people working in very different areas of STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine), from crows to the cosmos.
The organiser for the speakers event, Dr Charlie Wand, said "Since 2016, PRISM Exeter has been on a mission to to create paths into STEMM for LGBTQ+ people by increasing exposure to others just like them, but that doesn't mean you have to be queer to come along! We welcome...
PRISM Exeter's Speakers series returns for LGBT+ History Month 2024 with talks from Riley Smallman and Imogen Gingell. Buy tickets from £4.80 or register to watch online for free here.
They will talk about their experiences in STEMM as members of the LGBTQIA+ community and provide you with tantalising insights into their fields of research.
Online-only attendance is free. A live feed displaying the speaker and their slides will be broadcast to Zoom. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to contribute to the Q&A with the speakers after their talks.
A scientific services business from Devon has been recognised by the UK’s most prestigious business awards.
Brixham-based Scymaris was today unveiled as a winner of the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise, in the International Trade Category. Founded in 2016, Scymaris is a leading provider of Ecotoxicology, Environmental Fate and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Services to global agrochemical, pharmaceutical, industrial chemicals and biocides industries.
The firm responds to critical regulatory and research requirements, to understand how chemicals can impact the...
Broadclyst Community Primary School has been announced as one of 334 infant, junior, primary, middle and special schools awarded a Primary Science Quality Mark in April 2021. This is in celebration of its commitment to excellence in science teaching and learning.
The project to improve science across the school has been led by Michael Kimber, Professional Development & Science Learning Partnership Lead, and year 6 teacher James Beevor, and it involved all the children from reception upwards. Michael explains: “It has influenced everything from policy to how we teach in the...
Marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th February 2021), South Devon University Technical College (UTC) is inviting prospective students to find out more about its new Healthcare curriculum at its next virtual Open Evening.
Newton Abbot’s pioneering technical college is hosting the evening via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 11th February 2021 from 6pm to 7pm. Young people who have a keen interest in Healthcare and Engineering are urged to sign up for the event to explore what a career path in these key employment sectors could look like.
Beach cleans can provide vital information on plastic pollution, researchers say.
Numerous organisations run beach cleans in the UK – but data collection is done in a variety of ways, making it difficult for scientists to analyse.
The University of Exeter is contacting 25 leading beach cleaning organisations to discover the difficulties of data collection and improve data-sharing.
The project has today (Thursday) been awarded a £20k Citizen Science Exploration Grant by UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI).
“Understanding the scale and composition of litter...
<p>Running from the 20th-22nd of May the international, three-day Pint of Science festival will see thousands of scientists simultaneously bringing their research out of the lab to share with the public in over 300 cities across 24 countries. Founded seven years ago by two UK researchers, the festival brings a unique line up of talks, demonstrations and live experiments to the nation’s favourite locals. New for 2019 is the festival theme “What Next?” – we’ll be posing this critical question to researchers working across a huge range of scientific disciplines.</p>
Insightful, moving, funny and inspirational take on the interconnected worlds of women, science and space travel
Six months ago renowned space scientist Maggie Hill launched a career-defining mission to find habitable planets beyond our solar system. It did not go well. Then her girlfriend stopped speaking to her. Maggie’s going to have to address both of these catastrophes.
Lights! Planets! People! written by TV and radio scriptwriter Molly Naylor and performed by Karen Hill, is an intimate and exhilarating story about how we try to control the things that define us and...
Fish at Living Coasts in Torquay have been observed performing a mating behaviour that zookeepers think has never before been recorded. Animal experts filmed female four-eyed fish (Anableps anableps) rocking from side-to-side; this appeared to attract the male to come and mate.
Sharp-eyed aquarists Tom Fielding and Sam Worthington noted and eventually videoed the curious behaviour. Clare Rugg, curator of the Devon coastal zoo, has a theory: “One possibility is that the movement of the female fish is releasing pheromones into the water to signal that she is ready for mating. She...
Leading independent city Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers , Thompson Jenner LLP, has made a two-year deal to support the Exeter Initiative for Science and Technology (ExIST), joining a group of prestigious organisations that fund the group’s work to support the growth of Exeter’s science and technology sector.
Jon Westley, Partner at Thompson Jenner LLP, said: “We are delighted to support ExIST and the group’s aim to help businesses and organisations with science and technology at their heart to grow and flourish in Exeter. This is an important sector for us and we are...
