Finding love is hard, The Love Lab is here to help. This flirty speed dating event is a scientifically backed way to help you find love. Dr Naomi Koh Belic (she/her) and Shu Ezackial (they/them) will guide you through this matchmaking experiment. Sick of swiping? Come to The Library Bar, where you’ll find smooth jazz…
Topic: Health and Medical
Science, Media and the Law – Lessons from the Kathleen Folbigg case
Kathleen Megan Folbigg was arrested in 2001. Accused of murdering her four infant children. She was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 25 years. Scientific and medical research suggesting the daughters might have died of natural causes was rejected by a judicial inquiry in 2019. Subsequent research…
STEAM Engagement 101
Is it important to you to share your passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM)? How can you make a difference and lead young people and communities towards loving and trusting your work? This hands-on course is an overview of strategies used by the best STEAM communicators to effectively connect with school students…
eMeet a Biomedical Scientist
From the lab to the classroom! As part of National Science Week, the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Melbourne is connecting high school students with our biomedical scientists. At the heart of multi-disciplinary healthcare teams our Biomedical Scientists are world-renowned. Their research drives the discovery of new medications, vaccines and treatments for many life-threatening…
Illustrate Your Future
Are you ready to unleash your creativity and share your dreams with the world? We’re excited to invite you to our free online event, “Illustrate Your Future,” as part of National Science Week. This is your chance to visualise and illustrate your dreams of becoming anything you want. This could be a scientist, mathematician, engineer,…
Bite Sized Science Activities
Each day during National Science Week, SpringDale Neighbourhood Centre will host a science quarter – a fifteen-minute activity to stimulate minds and satisfy quests for information across a range of science fields. Come along, have fun and share the excitement that science can give.
Westmead Institute for Medical Research – Presentations
9:30–10:30am Phage Therapy – Dr Ruby CY Lin, PhD Very recently, ‘phage therapy’ has emerged as a viable alternative to antibiotics. First discovered in the early 20th century, it harnesses the superpower of phages which are viruses that specifically target and eliminate bacteria (precision medicine) and have an evolved capability to infect and destroy targeted bacteria…
Sharing Science Morning Tea at SpringDale Neighbourhood Centre
A morning tea full of opportunities to share your science experience, learn from each other and learn together. We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa.
Planetarium Concert – Live music in the skydome
Award-winning songwriter and science communicator Nate Eggins (a.k.a. Conspiracy of One) is bringing his signature sciency music to the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium. Experience a truly special stripped back and intimate performance as you are taken on a journey through the stars inside the magnificent skydome! Back again after a phenomenal response from last year’s…
Little Green Thumbs
We would like to teach children how you can grow your own fruit/vegetables and how this type of healthy food helps to maintain healthy bodies. It is important to also highlight the plant cycle – how plants need food too to grow (good soil, sunlight and water). We would like to create a vegie garden…