Director @sciencecentres and @explorerdome … with so much to learn and too little time! 🌍😍💫
Bristol, England
Joined July 2018
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Updates, ideas, reconnections & new collaborations - Thankyou @Ecsite #Ecsite2024 🤝Sad to leave - but not too long to wait before our European colleagues come to my home city of Bristol for the November Directors Forum @wethecurious 🙌 #EcsiteDF2024 @sciencecentres
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Celebrating #NationalSpaceDay with our space science project #OurWorldFromSpace currently running across 22 #ScienceCentres and #ScienceMuseums around the UK
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Funded by @spacegovuk in partnership with @NERCscience
This was great! Thank you @ArmaghPlanet @CatalystSDC @eurekamuseum @gsc1 @scienceatlife for sharing your wondrously wintry demos and shows! Loved feeling festive with our @sciencecentres community 🤩. Can you guess what @elinoroberts is doing here and how it ties with Santa!?
Blown away by this evening @UKHouseofLords hosted by @FloellaBenjamin. The importance of cultural permanence, representation & collaboration as @windrushmuseum joins @RMGreenwich for a future together. Proud of the (tiny) role we played in this matrix of brilliant people & places
Farewell vibrant, thoughtful, uplifting & emotion-full #Museums2023! @Sciencecentres joined you & felt welcome and connected. Highlight final session chaired by @waji35 with the beautiful words of @viciws Congratulations @MuseumsAssoc, @Sharonheal, @glasshouseicm & all involved.
A few pics from the start and finish (with the blur of an amazing conference of connection between!) All brought together by the Power in Purpose 🙌 #ASDC23 it was a privilege and a lot of fun. Thank you @Victoria_Denoon 👏🙏👏🙏👏 @W5Belfast @VisitBelfast @sciencecentres
We’re @bluedotfestival a wee bit soggy but happy 🙌 If you’re here come see us @ExplorerDome
Amazing session on biodiversity from space from Rod Downie @wwf_uk & @PeterTFretwell @Bas_news the team behind #WalrusFromSpace 🤩 Next up... penguins from space with @ourdynamicearth … 💩🐧#OurWorldFromSpace
“Ready to rock and roll” is how we’re feeling at #OurWorldFromSpace training academy 🤩 our largest programme yet! 45 colleagues from 22 centres and museums across the UK @sciencecentres
ASDC heads home but #Ecsite2023 is buzzing! Great to see @scienceatlife @wethecurious @sciencemuseum @nhm_London here in dazzling technicolour. Simply blissful to spend moments ‘mixing it up’ with international colleagues & friends in Malta 🇲🇹 Thankyou for the days @Ecsite
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We're celebrating #VolunteersWeek with our next Members' Forum: Working effectively with volunteers, Wed 7th June, 2-3pm + the launch of our 2nd Volunteer of the Year Award, sponsored by @MarshAwards
ASDC members please register 👇🏾 sciencecentres.org.uk/events…
ALT Stuart Phillips winner of the Volunteer of the Year Award 2022 with Annie McCarthy from The Marsh Trust, Shaaron Leverment ASDC Chief Executive and Florence Edmond, Volunteer Manager at Glasgow Science Centre.
Vicky visited @SeabirdCentre and brought back our proud first SDC fridge magnet! 🙌 Tadaaa 🙌 Unanimous decision @sciencecentres this is SO going to be a thing for our office 🌠
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This #Earthday we celebrate the launch of 'Our World From Space', a two-year STEM programme exploring the relevance of UK space science for the future health and sustainability of our home planet. Funded by @spacegovuk in partnership with @NERCscience sciencecentres.org.uk/projec…
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Thanks @ROGAstronomers @RMGreenwich for this event with Mark Camplin director astrophysics @NASA : Hot topics of @NASAWebb @EsaWebb science, unexpected discoveries and a future of habitable world exploration - all wrapped up with some excellent people & views in the sun☀️✨
>60% of people either don’t feel R&D benefits ‘people like them’ or feel neutral/unsure about its impacts…
“This is a precarious position for a sector that receives substantial public investment.” Excellent insights from #DiscoveryDecade for all in STEM participation 👇
Today we're launching a landmark #DiscoveryDecade study into public opinions on R&D
The public are important stakeholders, and our sector must understand and respond to different views about R&D and its value, so that we can make R&D matter to more people
bit.ly/3ZlXmqs
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Invitation to tender: Mindsets + Missions project evaluation 📝
We're looking for an evaluation specialist to measure the impact of our Mindsets + Missions project with @UKRI_News, @ahrcpress, @sciencecentres and @TheLiminalSpace 🤝
Apply by 6 March 👉 ow.ly/OF1N50N3qLA
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Huge congratulations for the team behind @sherwoodobs planned science discovery centre & planetarium - just awarded a further £3.1 million. It’s an amazing design 👀! Fingers crossed open for visitors as soon as Autumn 2024 👏✨👏 @sciencecentres @BAP_Planetarium
Exciting countdown to launch for @SpaceCornwall - good luck from science and discovery centres around the UK! And thanks to David Pollard, Education and Outreach Manager, for his inspirational talk on #Spaceports as part of the ASDC project Destination Space last month.
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And it's a wrap for 2022! One last post of the year to look back at all things ASDC over the past 12 months… sciencecentres.org.uk/news/2… Wishing our members, team, trustees and all the people who work with us a happy festive holiday 🌟🫶🏾🌟
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I have some news... During 2023, I'll be on secondment as a new Parliamentary "Thematic Research Lead": helping to provide evidence to Parliament on climate & environmental science.
If you're an academic & would like to be on the list of contacts I'm collecting, please reply! 🌍
We’re excited to welcome: Dr Tamsin Edwards @flimsin, Reader in Climate Change, @KingsCollegeLon, @kclgeography. Dr Edwards will lead on climate and environment; (3/5)
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