Events in Physics
The Science and Technology Facilities Council invites applications for its public engagement spark awards. These support programmes of novel public engagement that focus on a topic within the council鈥檚 remit, which includes astronomy, solar and planetary science, particle physics, particle astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and accelerator science. Applications that highlight the social, ethical, and economic benefits of research are welcomed. Applicants are particularly encouraged to propose engagement with audiences considered to have low science capital.
Applicant organisations must be based in the UK and the target audiences of the project must be primarily UK residents. Researchers, STFC scientists and engineers, facility users, schools, museums, science communicators and amateur astronomy groups may apply. Each application must include a researcher in an STFC-funded area of science or technology.
Awards are worth up to 拢15,000 each and may cover costs such as contributions to salaries, costs of materials, travel and subsistence, and equipment worth up to 拢10,000.