Current opportunities for researchers
Applications are invited from researchers to undertake the following public engagement activities.
Institute of Physics Public Engagement Grant Scheme - apply now
The scheme is currently open for organisations and individuals to apply for up to £1,000 to provide physics-based events and activities across the UK and Ireland.
Closing date: midday on 30 April 2012
Engaging the public with your research - book your place now
We are pleased to announce new dates for our course in 2012 and 2013 that are available for booking. This is a popular course and places fill up rapidly.
In addition to developing your media and writing skills and doing mock radio interviews, the course will focus on expectations upon you to undertake public engagement and how this could best be done within your research area.
Find out more and book your place.
Courses are approximately six times a year - no closing date.
STEM Ambassadors - sign up now
This scheme links researchers with schools and provides training and all appropriate checks and insurance for researchers to visit schools and undertake a range of activities, from attending classes to giving careers advice.
To find out more, and to sign up to the scheme, go to STEMNET 
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No closing date - applications received at any time
Hidden Science app and map - researchers needed
The Hidden Science Map is a pilot project to show anyone accessing the map just how much science is all around them. There are profiles of researchers, organisations and people with science training working in other areas to show how much science touches our lives and the wide variety of jobs that science training can lead to. More profiles are needed. Search the map or sign up to create your profile.
Future morph, who are hosting the Hidden Science Map, have also launched a new site to answer science questions submitted through a new mobile phone app Orange have launched. Each month there is a new theme; this month's theme is water. Future themes include medical science, food, sport, travel & tourism, fashion & textiles, Earth science, imagining different tomorrows, disaster, wealth & luxury, space, and computers & IT. To sign up to help answer these questions, contact H.Margerison@sciencecouncil.org.
No closing date given.