We know it may have been on at 4am in the UK, but did anyone catch Genesis Research Trust Chairman Professor Robert Winston on The Late Late Show with James Corden? The pair did some pretty interesting experiments which make for an entertaining watch!
Teacher CPD in the East Midlands: 1st July 2016 10am
Robert Winston will be talking to staff from FE Colleges and schools at a CPD event in Nottingham on the importance of experimenting in education. This will be an intimate event with a book signing and lunch with plenty of time to ask questions.
Professor Winston has a keen interest in education and speak at schools around the country on a weekly basis. He set up The Reach Out Lab at Imperial College to allow school pupils to try practical science and also measure the impact of different teaching methods. The lab also runs CPD to improve the confidence and knowledge of science teachers at both primary and secondary.
This event will be an intimate gathering to motivate staff, science and non-science, about the importance of experimenting with teaching and learning in order to innovate.
Tickets are available to all education practioners on the EMFEC website: http://www.emfec.co.uk/event/an-audience-with-professor-robert-winston/
Cheltenham Science Festival
Robert will be at the Cheltenham Science Festival on Tuesday 7 June demonstrating exciting experiments from his new kids book HomeLab. To find out more and to buy tickets, please visit the Festival website.
And on Wednesday 8 June at 4pm, Robert will be discussing Why My Experiments Always Go Wrong. Find out more on the Festival website.
Hay Literary Festival 2016
Robert Winston at Hay Festival Sunday 29th May 2016 at 4pm – Utterly Amazing Science
Professor Winston presents his Royal Society Young Person’s Book of the Year.
For children ages 8+
Price: £7.00
Northern Ireland Science Festival, Belfast
Robert will be speaking on Sunday 28 February at Whitla Hall, Queens University, Belfast on ‘What Makes Us Happy?’ This event is part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival which has been taking place over the past two weeks. To find out more, and to buy tickets, please visit the Festival website.
Visit to Parmiter’s School
Thank you to the staff and students of Parmiter’s School in Garston for their warm hospitality on Friday 12 March. After delivering a talk to 300 students, Robert was presented with a wonderful cheque for the Genesis Research Trust – thank you for all your fundraising efforts! To round the day off he was given honorary membership of the school’s STEM-EAST Club and presented with his very own lab coat to mark the occasion. To find out more, visit the school’s website.
Science Live!
Robert is a regular speaker at Science Live! around the country. Science Live! is a series of annual events for GCSE Science students at venues across the UK.
This year he is speaking at the following venues:
GCSE
Oxford – Wednesday 20 January 2016: New Theatre
Manchester – Monday 25 January 2016: Opera House
London – Friday 29 January 2016:
Sheffield – Tuesday 2 February 2016:
London – Friday 26 February 2016: Dominion Theatre & Apollo Victoria
Birmingham – Monday 29 February 2016: at Symphony Hall and New Alexandra Theatre
Leeds – Wednesday 2 March 2016: Town Hall
Glasgow – Tuesday 22 March 2016: Pavilion Theatre
A Level
Wednesday 27 January 2016: Town Hall, Birmingham
Thursday 4 February 2016: Phoenix Theatre, London
To find out more, visit the Science Live! website.
Godolphin & Latymer Annual Lecture
Robert will be delivering a lecture as part of Godolphin & Latymer School’s Public Lecture Series on Tuesday 24 November at 7.30pm in West London. To find out more, please visit the school’s website.
Utterly Amazing Science Wins Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
We were delighted to hear that Utterly Amazing Science has won this year’s Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. The result was announced at an awards ceremony at the Eden Project in Cornwall on 16 November 2015.
The winner was chosen by over 1,500 young people in judging panels around the country and the Prize was presented at a prestigious award ceremony at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
The young judges said:
Destiny, 10
“This book is full of very cool facts and popups.”
Asma, 12
“This book is scientifically awesome! Even my 15 year-old sister liked it!”
Meg, 9
“What a brilliant book, I’m definitely going to read it all.”
Adam, 11
“Creative, imaginative, fact-filled and fun.”
Matthew, 12
“An utterly amazing book, with fun radiating from it! Every page is a new adventure.”
Chrystabelle, 12
“This book is an absolute winner. I enjoyed reading it from cover to cover as it’s well written yet easy to read, colourful and full of interesting information.”
Mariusz, 12,
“It wants me to go and do science! And the pop-ups are great too.”
Yeovil Literary Festival – 1 November 2015
Robert will be speaking at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil as part of the Yeovil Literary Festival on Sunday 1 November 2015. He will be speaking on What Makes Us Happy: Reading the Human Mind. To find out more information and to buy tickets, please visit the Festival website.