Talks & workshops

For teachers, community group leaders and festival organisers

We offer talks and workshops for a wide range of audiences in schools, clubs, and festivals. We aim to enthuse and intrigue our audience, extend their knowledge and feed their curiosity to drive them to want to learn more. Our talks are interactive and last about an hour, including question time. Our workshops give a hands-on experience on the topic and typically last for 1.5 hours but can be extended or reduced depending on the customer requirements. We specifically want to engage with audiences that do not come from a scientific background. This is why we are interested in presenting our talks & workshops at music festivals, such as WOMAD.

We currently offer the talks and accompanied workshops that are listed below.

Primary School ages

• Clocks and Gears: learn about astronomical clocks and how they were used in ancient times; understand the motion and mathematics of gears when they are linked together;

• The world of fundamental particles: learn about the families and properties of subatomic particles, their behaviour and interactions;

• Our amazing universe: learn about the variety of astronomical objects in our universe such as comets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and their evolution;

• Extreme temperatures: learn about the physics of extreme temperatures and the amazing properties of superconductors.

Low-Secondary School ages (KS3)

• The world of fundamental particles: learn about the families and properties of subatomic particles, their behaviour and interactions;

• Our amazing universe: learn about the variety of astronomical objects in our universe such as comets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and their evolution;

• Extreme temperatures: learn about the physics of extreme temperatures and the amazing properties of superconductors.

High-Secondary School ages (KS4 and KS5)

• Particle Physics Masterclass: be a particle physicist for a day; analyse real data from CERN, discover the Higgs boson and calculate the mass of the Z boson;

• Careers in Physics: learn about the current research areas in physics and the career paths that open to you after a university degree;

• The Antikythera Mechanism: learn about the discovery, history, operation and current research of this unique archaeological artefact.

• The search for the Hubble constant: learn about the discovery of Hubble’s law, and how it can be used to calculate the age of the Universe.

• What makes a musical instrument sing: learn about he physics of musical instruments.

For the general public

• The world of fundamental particles: learn about the families and properties of subatomic particles and their behaviour and interactions;

• Our amazing universe: learn about the variety of astronomical objects in our universe such as comets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and their evolution;

• Extreme temperatures: learn about the physics of extreme temperatures and the amazing properties of superconductors;

• The Antikythera Mechanism: learn about the discovery, history, operation and current research of this unique archaeological artefact.

• What makes a musical instrument sing: learn about he physics of musical instruments.